I’m glad you have decided to check it out. My intent is to use this blog in several ways:
1. To share what the Lord is doing at Sawmill Campus – specific stories that you might not otherwise be aware of. For example, our children’s ministry leader openings filled up over a month in advance of the next session - this is unheard of at most churches! We are blessed to have so many people in our midst who are willing to serve.
2. To dream with you. This is a really big one for me. I believe God has put so many dreams in the hearts of His people and He wants to release us with the resources to go out and pursue those dreams for the sake of His Name. I think this blog is a place where we can leave comments for one another and share our dreams. It’s a place where as I talk about what I believe God is calling Sawmill to pursue we are able to line up the resources that God has placed into Sawmill with the dreams that He is placing in our hearts so we might actually see things happen and peoples’ lives get touched.
3. To share a few of my own thoughts about what God is doing in my own life, in hopes that it causes you to think about what God is doing in your own life so as to encourage us to keep pursuing and seeking after Him. I’m not sure how often this will happen, but my goal is to write something weekly, if not more.
4. To provide information. We will do our best to keep all the relevant information you need under the “Events” and “Outreaches” tabs of this blog. This information will also be listed on the Sawmill Campus page of the vineyard website. I want to encourage you to check out these tabs right now as we have just rolled out a bunch of new outreaches for the next couple months. Would love to have you involved!
Thanks again for stopping in! Please sign up your email address (over there to the right!) so we can send you updates to the blog as they come about. Talk with you soon!
-corey
The thing I like about Vineyard Columbus Sawmill Campus is that everybody comes together to be The Church in worship, miraculously setting up in the middle school, with prayer, communion, excellent messages and fellowship; and then intimately again in our small groups meeting outside of worship.
Without any of the many families and individuals that we admire and see together as being part of the worship, whether just being there or being up front with the inspirational music, or just being there behind the scenes or serving in teaching children, or just visiting, the whole experience is more than the sum of the whole gathering. This is because the Holy Spirit draws us together, not because of what we can do, but what Jesus has already done to unite our hearts and minds.
1 Corinthians 12:18-20 explains it this way:
“But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.”