Sweet Serendipity

We ended Saturday's walk about 10 miles north of Durant, Oklahoma. Since there was no parking around we drove into town to find a church to go to attend Sunday. After settling in at Wal-Mart parking lot, we pulled out our GPS and searched for a place to worship in the morning.

We found one that appealed to us. It had fellowship at 9:00am, Sunday School at 9:30am and worship at 10:30am and it wasn't more than a half a mile away from where we were parked. The next morning we followed the GPS directions faithfully ad couldn't find the church! Grrr! Technology!

It did lead us past the First Assembly of God in Durant and so decided to go back and worship there. There was no sign outside to tell us when the service began or if they had Sunday School but people were starting to arrive and we thought we'd better park the bus.

As soon as we walked in, it felt like home. Everyone greeted us warmly and went out of their way to say hello. The music was right up our alley...oldies but goodies....Look What The Lord Has Done, I'll Fly Away, and Nothing But The Blood of Jesus. We were all praising God with energy and enthusiasm! Pastor Mike's wife Jill was preaching from the pulpit and one of her points was how God re-routes us just like our GPS does when we make a wrong turn. Boy, are we glad we were re-routed!

After service, Pastor Mike invited to do a presentation at the evening service. Now whenever God gives us opportunity we say "Yes!" but this invitation took us by such surprise. We had not done Zacchaeus in several months and rarely does a pastor ask you to preach that day. Pastor Mike said he was open to whatever the Holy Spirit wanted to do. I remembered Isaiah 41:13.

The service was at 6:00pm and the church had nearly as many people for the evening service as they did in the morning. They sang a few songs and then it was Zac time. About an hour later, it was clear that God had touched some hearts. New friends Kenneth and Dorothy invited us out for a hamburger and we spent another hour or two spending some time with them and others of the church at Braum's. When we have experiences like this...sometimes it's tough to move on and yet it's what we're called to do...go...love...and encourage.

What a wonderful day it was! God takes wrong turns and makes them right. I use technology but I depend on Crossology!