When Brenda and I moved to Beloit, we visited a few churches in the area before we settled on Central Christian as our main Church. We went there for several years until God led us to Family Worship Center (fwcbeloit.com) where we go now. This is how our most recent move happened.
One day, Brenda and I were leaving a store when we passed an elderly woman trying to start her stalled car in a parking lot. I offered to jump it, and soon she was on her way. Before she left I gave her our cell number, just in case she didn't make it home.
A short time later she did indeed call, telling us that she was once again stranded. By the time we arrived at her location, a nearby resident was already helping her. We then struck up a conversation and learned that the neighbor attends Family Worship Center. He invited us to visit his church, and we had often talked about visiting it when we would drive past, but so far had never done so.
Several years passed without us visiting it as we were happy with Central Christian. Central is a large church with contemporary Saturday services that fit Brenda's work schedule. David Clark was pastor, and we liked his preaching and theology, not to mention the music and worship. So we weren't really looking to switch churches.
But God seemed to be nudging us in a different direction. Since moving to Beloit, we had begun attending a small Bible study in the home of Darrel and Malinda Morris.
Here we met Gene and Mary Seger, who also invited us to attend Family Worship Center. But still, we procrastinated.
And then another “coincidence” got our attention.
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Family Worship Center was between pastors, and had just agreed to hire Adam and Amy Meyer to be the new pastoral couple. Gene and Mary had not yet met their future pastor when they traveled to Branson, Missouri, a few hundred miles south. While there, they attended a large show. During the intermission they became acquainted with the couple sitting next to them, and to their surprise, they were Adam and Amy Meyer, also visiting Branson! Indeed, sometimes God works in amazing ways.
I have often said that coincidences show us God loves us, is with us, and wants our attention. Sometimes they can even point us to where God is leading. So when Gene and Mary told our small group about this coincidence, it became the thing that, along with our previous invites, intrigued us enough to actually visit their church. Adam and Amy had not yet arrived, so the first services we attended were led by interim pastor Robert Wright, who gave great messages.
During one service, we recognized the neighbor who helped the woman in the stalled car, and we re-introduced ourselves. So even before we met the new pastor, we had already decided to make this our home church simply because it seemed clear that this was where God was leading. And now that we have made the switch, we appreciate Pastor Adam's passionate messages, and the anointed worship sessions often led by his wife Amy.
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