the back burner for a little big. It's beautiful weather, I'm sitting
by the window as the sunlight shines upon me. There is much clickity
clack of the keyboards in the room today not just from my own keys.
I'm sitting in a friends studio working away. They're too kind I tell
you. I've had a great week to this point, lots going on and lots of
ideas finally on the rise. Fruition to come soon. There's also a
little bit of waiting involved. And also weighting. Importance etc.
Anyway, here I go on a short rant.
This past weekend marked a big shift in the church that I call
Freedomize. Maybe shift is a terrible word to use. More like
transition. Yeah.. that sits better. We're moving to a new space as
I've mentioned before and this past Saturday I was able to spend the
last of 3 Saturdays in a row helping out at St. Stephen's in the
field. The new home of FT. It was the big move, I was late, I did help
out a little moving things, building shelves and I did a lot of
hanging out getting to know people a little more than I did already. I
decided for Saturday night that I would take it easy, get a little
work done, and not have a crazy 4am mission back to the Saug from the
city. Mission success! I ended up paying a huge sleep debt and slept
for 12 hours. This was perfect. Nice long sleep, nice lazy Sunday and
a great lead into the last worship at St. Andrews. In true FT style,
we had something special in store. Without all of our AV setup we did
it all campfire style on the steps right in front of all the pews. So
sweet! Not only that thought, there's more. We were given 4 minutes
once we were all gathered to go and find a place in the church on our
own to be with Jesus and just pray about whatever we needed to pray
about. It offered people worried about the move a chance to express
it, those that needed to lament to let it out, those that had anything
else on their minds to have a moment in that space one more time to
let it be heard. I had never really been upstairs in St. Andrews so I
headed straight up there, lay down on some chairs and looked right up
at the ceiling. I had so much to give thanks for.
Once we reconvened we sat right up front on the ground camp style and
started into worship. The singing was so loud and unified. I never
knew I knew as many words as I did. It really offered everyone a
chance to let everyone hear their voices loud and clear. Worship was
led by two guitars, Andrew and Leah. I don't know if I can really
explain how it sounded. It was almost like a full spectrum choir.
Anyone who might have walked in during worship would have probably
been awestruck to see so many youngins in full on worship just loving
it. I think it was really the perfect way to have last worship at the
space. I'm sure I'm not the only one with these feelings, I think
everyone loved it.
I think since it's a different sound than we're used to hearing it is
making us all more attentive and less hesitant about the future of the
community. Sitting on the floor, without any electronics, overheads,
we didn't even need lights if they weren't there. If we could be FT
like that, we can be FT anywhere. And this is really going to bring
about some great opportunity in our new location near Kensington Market.
I also invited another person out to FT. I think he's still processing
it and considering it. He comes from a similar background as me with
Catholic School and church so this would likely open his eyes as it
did mine. I did let him know it didn't have to be right away as we'll
be moving into a new space and we'll be working out the kinks for a
few weeks. When you've been in a place for 8 years, you can imagine
not everything will go smoothly. There's still the issue of people
that don't go to FT all that regularly. They might not have been for
months and go back to St. Andrews one Sunday expecting to see familiar
faces and instead will be greeted with locked doors. I really hope and
pray this doesn't happen to anyone though.
Well, that's about all the rant I can handle right now.
BACK TO WORK!!
Well... in a sec.
I watched a wicked movie last night thanks to another wicked FTer.
Roman Holiday with Audrey Hepburn. Such an amazing classy lady. And
that movie was absolutely brilliant. Black and white yet you can see
so much life in it. It was like a love crazy version of Aladdin mixed
with a little bit of Seinfeld and other things. I found it amazing. If
you're into lovestory movies it's definitely a sweet one to start
with. There's talk of making a round two to enjoy another Audrey
flick. I'm totally in. haha.
Cheerios.
Peace, love and rock,
J
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