What an incredible journey it’s been with the perfect group of people. I was a youth pastor and went right into becoming a House Church leader. I didn’t know what to do; nobody knew what to do! We just knew we had to meet and talk!
Just a group of primarily college students with no direction, we started going through a video series. That didn’t work at all! Then, we started going through books of the Bible. That kinda worked. Then, we started discussing life and what we’re going through. This broke the ice and started the creation of our closely knit family.
One of the first big things we decided to do was to give backpacks with school supplies out to the kids of the CasaRush neighborhood. This made quite an impact but financially, it wasn’t easy at all. We passed out flyers and had to fill 80 backpacks. God knew what he was doing though.
We’ve seen Luke and Lakin move to Kentucky and come back. Lakin reveal that she’s having a baby, Lakin bringing Rosabelle into our family.
We created food themes and forced people into trying/creating something different. Even if it was mixing energy drinks together!
We pulled together our resources to be able to give bags of items to homeless in Tampa. We could see a difference that this was making in peoples lives.
I learned how to run the sound board and now have taught nearly everyone in CasaRush how to run sound for an event! I started hosting concerts and both Luke and Caleb generously helped out by playing and being part of the production, twice.
We learned to worship together and worship in different aspects. We learned to pray, pray together, pray for each other and drop everything just to cover someone with prayer. We have grown spiritually because of one another. May this just be the close of one chapter and the start of the next epic chapter of our lives.
