Good Day

It's been a good day, or a good evening anyway. I have been praying for months now to find a church and body of believers here in Tempe that I could get involved with that's close enough to campus so I don't need a car to get there. And tonight my friend Rachel invited me out to a small, still-growing church that she's been to a couple times. I almost didn't go, because I wanted to get some homework and studying done and was honestly just in one of those "I really don't want to talk to God right now" moods. But I went anyway.

Oh man, good thing I did.

I am in love with this church already and I don't even know five people in it. I would never have found it in a million years - it's in the middle of a neighborhood, just a block from Casey Moore's, which is a pub that I've heard a lot about but never been to. Anyway it's this one-building church, and the only room in it is the sanctuary, which holds maybe 60 people. There are two services on Sunday, one in the morning and one in the evening. I ended up at the evening service, of course, and it's almost all ASU students. The teaching was great, the worship was great, and everyone was friendly. The songs were all original and many were written by the church worship leader himself especially for that body...it was just such a breath of fresh air. And it's barely a mile from the apartment. I am so thankful! Praise God for answered prayers!

If you wanna listen to the sermon we heard tonight (or any other night, for that matter) you can find 'em here. Tonight we heard 77.9

Also on the Cool List tonight, a nostalgic picture: