I continue to love the members of my small group and I have mixed feelings about how to write this post. On Tuesday, I came home from the office early to help my wife get the house ready for our small group meeting while she had taken the kids to an appointment. During that appointment my son, Michael, had a seizure.
He half way closed his eyes, kind of zoned out, and shook just a little bit, all for about a minute or so. Shelli called me immediately and told me an ambulance was on the way. I jumped in the car and called Rose (one of our group members) and she handled the group for us.
Two days later we took Michael in for an EEG at DuPont Hospital and some group members swung into action. When we got home from the testing a package was sitting in the driveway waiting for us. While we were gone some of my Home Team (small group) had put together a small care package! Nothing extravagant but some simple things to show us they cared and that they were thinking about us.
I can't tell you how good it felt to come home and see that package from them waiting there for us. Especially after a long day of testing.
I hesitated writing this post since I am still emotionally in the middle of this thing but I had to let other leaders know how much something small like that makes a difference.
Keep us in your prayers...
in full time ministry that you are the one "doing" all of the ministry. However, there are a few times every year that my small group really ministers to me. This past weekend was one of them.
We had a little bit of a scare this weekend. While I was out to lunch with a good friend of mine from my group Shelli called and informed me she was experiencing some contractions. She is 30 weeks pregnant so it is still a bit early to have the baby. You can read about the visit to the hospital on
my personal blog.
Immediately my group went into support mode. One family took my son Michael as I rushed Shelli to the hospital while others called us and left messages that they were praying. Sometimes it can be tough when you move to a different part of the country and you don't have your siblings or parents nearby. What we do have is our church family and our small group. This weekend they ministered to the minister and his wife.
