Day Five

Day Five - Wednesday
Ok, so the person's house that we stayed at, we met through facdebook. She is apart of my best friend's church and they stay there whenever they are in town to preach (they are traveling evangelists) and have good references. this is definately a different day that we live in.

Interesting story about her:
While praying God told her that he was going to give her a new house, so she packed everything she owned in boxes and prepared for her new house. Her possessions stayed in those boxes for the next 7 years. Could you imagine, everyone around her thought she was out of her gourd. Well Target came to her one day and offer her 250K for her 75K house and property so that they could build a parking lot on her and the neighbors property. She then moved to the side coty that she wanted to move to, built a house for her and her son, and furnished it with the money. I think of Noah and doing the crazy, but acheiving the results. Interesting lady, good conversationalist.

Anyway, we drove around and prayed a bit and then got some lunch. We went to Church on the Rise for the church tour and meeting. On the way there I recieved a call from Michael W. Smith and Billy Hornsby. They shared with me that the ARC church in Solon was pastorless and was currently looking for a pastor and that I should check it out and see what I think. Whoa! What ... Umm, ok we can do that. We cancelled our meeting with the real estate guy, because things were now kind of up in the air.
And now for our meeting with COTR. They have a great church facility (Sanctuary reminded me of Celebration Church) and youth building. We then had a quick meeting with the founding pastor. We chatted and shared for about an hour, which was much longer than we thought we would get with him. As it turned out the original pastor of Oak River (the ARC church in Solon) came out of his church and and they actually Sponsored the plant through the ARC. He had some inside info and thoughts toward the situation. He also, had some great ideas on other areas in the city that would be prime for a church plant and some other pastors in the area that I should know. A very good and timely meeting.
We got a bit to eat, checked out a local mall and started off to meet a couple that wasa recomendation from my youth pastor growing up. Sol and Jamie Gunyola. The Starbucks that we went to was one of the coolest. It used to be a bank and it was three stories with a fire place ... very cozy. They were a neat couple. They are very evangelistic and have a great heart for reaching the lost. Sol is a tell-it-like-it-is kind of guy that you definately don't have to guess what he is thinking or going through. I like that about him. His wife is very into horses ... It is her life. She has a heart for worship and she is strong, which Faith likes. They are, oddly enough, not currently plugged in anywhere and want to find a church home. They said they would help us out no matter where we went, except for Solon. haha. Anyway, we left encouraged, they are a great couple with much potential. We called it a night and went back to Chris's house for the night.