Summer to fall, baseball to football season…change is in the air.

As I watched two of our PathFinders get baptized on Sunday, I couldn’t help think about changes; specifically changes brought on by growth. 

Changes….
Our beginning 17 kids to our current 215+
Children who were just babies when we started but are now in BIG 45
Children who were just out of preschool when we started, and are now in middle school and volunteering in PathFinders
Children who were born into the StoneBridge family, and are now in preschool
It all seems to go by so fast, and yet, these changes are really gradual. 

Think about it…God spins the earth but we don’t feel it happening.  Change is taking place, but it’s so gradual that we don’t realize it until we see the results.  One minute your child has just learned to crawl, and the next thing you know they are walking.  This is not an overnight thing, but the gradual and unrecognizable changes that take place make it seem so.

I wonder if we miss the gradual changes that God does in the hearts of our kids because we only look for the big result.  Standing in front of your church family, proclaiming your belief and commitment to Jesus, and then being baptized…big result.  What gradual but very significant changes took place in the hearts of those girls to lead them there? 

My hope and prayer this week is that God reveals the gradual changes happening around me.  I want to celebrate those just as much as the big ones. 

This Week’s Announcements:
PathFinder Camping Day for 1st-5th graders.  Don’t forget to sign up via www.signupgenius.com
Registration closes on September 30th. 

What God is Teaching Us:
Follow the link below to see curriculum from this past Sunday (9/22)
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Funny things kids say:
While reading and discussing the “wife of noble character” in Proverbs 31, one girl said, “I don’t get it…no woman would ever buy a field without asking her husband first!”