Hey... To anyone that checks this sight, I'm sorry it's been a while since I've updated.. Over a month to be exact.. And a lot has happened, one thing being I haven't been around the internet for quiet some time...
As you have read Lynnette and I excepted a position in Traverse City, MI as Jr. High Pastor.. We went to camp in Houghton, NY with the teens in an effort to get to know them... To make a long story short, without my knowledge, camp really sucked.. Apparently some of the leaders to the trip got the entirely wrong impression of Lynnette and I...
I was called Sunday evening, with our trucked packed with all our belonging, by the Senior Pastor at the church we were headed to and told not to sign on the house we were to purchase the next day and come up for meetings.. These meetings were rough.. To explain I will tell one story, Larry (the High School Pastor at the church) had told the leaders that they need to have the girls in bed by Midnight, as students were getting sick and needed rest... Lynnette, trying to do this, went around after midnight tell girls "lights out" and asking girls to go to sleep... If you know Lynnette you know she wears glasses, she was not wearing her glasses as she did this.. She asked for lights out in a room that Deanne (Larry's wife and fellow Youth Pastor) was talking to some girls in... Lynnette, of course, did not know that Deanne was in the room..
An honest mistake, right? Well, I guess not, rather than talk to Lynnnette "hey, why did you do that?" Deanne and the other lady's on the trip along with Pastor Larry called together a meeting to say harsh things about Lynnette and myself, all derived from circumstances like the one described.. This meeting led to the phone call to myself, more meetings with the Senior Pastor, Youth Pastors and leaders involved... In the end the Senior Pastor decided it would be best that Lynnette and I not be offered the job there...
So here we are homeless and out of work... My belief in myself and the church is very shaken, but my belief in God has not changed, I know God will be glorified, even through this... I don't know what's going to happen next, our things are all in storage in Midland, MI and we are staying in Lynnette's parent's basement for the time being... Please pray for us that God will show us his will... I believe God had called us to Traverse City, but that calling was blocked... What this means I don't know and am trying to figure out.... Thanks for taking the time to read this.... It's a messed up world we live in and people all over the world are dying needless deaths, loosing a job and a house isn't the worst thing that could happen to us... To God Be The Glory
2 comments:
you're still in my thoughts and prayers...i love you both much. God's got somethin up His sleeve...wait in anticipation cuz it's gonna be sweet.
From the moment I met "super dave" and a corduroy jacket I had respect for a guy that was willing to do as I had done in my time... but my time was changing, I was going on to other ministry, God has a funny way (in our eyes) to move us, guide us, direct us. My family has been nearly foreclosed on, nearly evicted, lost our house to fire and still when we try on our own to take the steering wheel he has changed the way we think we should go into something else.
God has never ceased to amaze me and how he can use people and their bad intentions for his good and glory.
You left a hole in my heart when you left, but the mark you made on my boys, my family and the countless others will be what you have as a more important lineage. Our disappointments are often salved with "sunday school answers." Many told us that God was in control as the images of flames engulfing my home were still fresh in my memory. It didn't mean they were not sincere or wrong, it simply didn't seem to help.
I will pray to know how to pray for you. Keep making me proud...
-Lloyd
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