U2- Where the Streets Have No Name

What can I say. I'm feeling a little homesick lately. The scene from this video makes me long for the day when multitudes will stand together that place where the streets have no name, and we will sing together. It's going to be awesome.

WNC Meeting Debacle

I posted the following on a message board, concerning the WNC meeting tonight to decide whether we should go ahead and buy a building, or stick with the original plan of leasing until a prime location for offices is worked out:

Partially in agreement. I think it needs to at least be considered. However, come Thursday, at our conventiently scheduled meeting Rolling Eyes , the pastors will vote to buy the property that the AB has found. His presentation will be good, and there will be little time for good discussion on the matter. And once again, the men will feel compelled to blindly follow the AB and SC reccomendation, and then in a few months everyone will be complaining about how bad of an idea it was.

BUT, we keep putting the same guys on the SC, and we keep voting for everything they recommend.. so its a vicious cycle. Then, when the body actually reccomends something, like the "Vision and Steering Commitee" for Whittier, they make sure that doesn't happen.

I just hope everyone is thinking about these things before we go into this meeting. Let's stand up and talk, and don't be a bunch of wussies (or in the words of one of my retired minister friends: "You know what you are!")

Today I am still very anxious about how this meeting will go. I dread the idea that we might vote to buy this building- WHEN there are BIGGER issues at hand. WNC is falling behind- we have no youth camp, and no real plan to actually have one. We already have properties that could be used- in Kannapolis, Paw Creek, Whittier, etc. There has long been discussions of moving to a more central location.

But, now we might buy a building stuck in Charlotte. A building that needs repairs- roofing and carpet. And, there is no word yet on where the money left over from this purchase will go. Unfortunately it is the generations behind even mine that will suffer. How much will the kingdom suffer in WNC with no youth camp? The sacred event in which many of us were saved, sanctified, spirit baptized, and called into ministry.

I was told by a leading official in our state (not the YCE director), that Youth Camp was a thing of the past, and WNC needs to move on to the future. Then I look at the others states who are doing awesome things, even moving to the future by streaming their camp meetings. And WNC sits on the sidelines, making decisions to buy buildings that will still not provide the needed ministry for the people of this state. I say, if we want to look to the future, then we need to invest in our youth- YOUTH CAMP IN WNC MUST BECOME A PRIORITY AGAIN!! I am so tore up in my spirit about the flippant way that WNC has been approaching these matters that I am actually dreading the possible outcome of this meeting tonight.