For those who have been following my tweets and status, you probably noticed I’ve been away at beautiful Abbotsford this weekend for a conference. And for those who don’t know where Abbotsford is, it’s HERE. Just a bit about Abbotsford, it’s house numbers are huge! They averagely have 5 numbers for their house numbers. They’ve got BIG GREEN lands. And they’ve probably got more churches than people.And on the note of church, it was my annual church camp. Now, why is this blog titled “Follow Through…” you may ask? Well, read on! You’ll find out.

Following through is easier said than done. We, humans, say alot but do little. Or maybe we say alot of things, but the things we say is a complete opposite of our actions. Well, this was sort of the main encap for the whole conference, but not quite. There’s more than that… For those who have been coming to my church, we’ve been working on a mini-summer project on how to reach out to our community. Ideas flowed and flowed… (more talking than action likewise!) But, for some reason…when these ideas flowed, it wasn’t in my own interest to actually reach my community. To me, I didn’t feel a sense of purpose in reaching out to the community. I mean why do we even want to reachout. What was our purpose? Evangelism? Who was our target audience? Why the community? Why OUR community? Why should I CARE? All these questions and thoughts kept swirveling in my mind.

So, after this camp…did I have an answer? YES. But, am I going to tell you the answer? NO. But, I will tell you this. Even if I told you the answer, you will probably memorize the answer (cause that’s what we are good at doing) and move on. Only if life was like that…just an answer textbook! Everything was either right or wrong. But, we all know it’s not!! However, I will share something that really TOUCHED me! Something that really WOW-ed me! And something that have changed my view! I hope it’ll change yours too!

So, here it is! A song, “Does Anybody Hear Her?”By Casting Crowns. I’ve probably heard this song played well over a hundred times and the lyrics never really revealed itself to me nor was I really attracted to the lyrics! But, when I first watched the music video…I was ASTOUND! I was STRUCK! I was INSPIRED!