Mark Prater, the founding pastor of the church where Eric and I met and now SGM Board member, is coming to town this weekend. Considering our city is nationally despised and on the edge of the SGM map, and considering the busyness of this season for him, that's amazing.
How can it be? you ask. Why do we get a weekend with a Board member- meeting with our pastors, leadership team, and a church family meeting with him? Has any other SGM church had a Board member at their family meetings, with time for a Q&A? Why do we get that kind of privileged treatment? Is it just the favor of God? Yes, it is.
Darren has been the senior pastor of this church since before Eric and I moved here. But he has never been officially ordained. It was just one of those things that sort of fell through the cracks. And God sovereignly arranged it that Darren would finally get ordained now- in the midst of this controversy. Isn't that wild?
I feel for Darren. I know it's hard for him to enjoy the moment with all that is going on. But he's definitely showing himself to be the man God has chosen for our church for such a time as this. And God has used the timing to give us personal access to Mark Prater. It's so sweet to feel His hand in the storm.
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