Guest
blog by Kay Richardson
In
1993 I went on a youth mission trip as an adult sponsor to Washington
DC. The church we stayed at and ministered to was very different
than the Baptist Temple Church at
that time. They had different groups worshiping at different
times, they fed the community, they had a clothes closet, the
homeless slept around the building. Little did I know that experience
would prepare me for what Baptist Temple’s mission is today.
In
the past few years, members of BTC have experienced a lot of change.
Five different churches rent space and worship on our campus. Some
of our activities and times of worship include those churches on our
campus. VBS is now a campus-wide/community event. Our gym is rented
nightly by different sports organizations. In recent days, a funeral
planning service has set up an office area and added their signs to
our building. We now have solar panels all across our roof.
Through
these different churches and organizations, God has blessed us
financially along with the tithes and gifts from our own members.
And because of that, we can continue to minister to our members and
to the community!
The
BTC of 2018 is very different from the BTC of years gone by.
We can either lament what was, or we can rejoice in what is and is to
come! I believe God wants us to embrace the times of change. Look
around—God is at work in many different ways!
Ephesians
2:10 says, “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in
them.”
