Categories: religion
Date: 26 October 2008 20:11:35
Tonight I preached at a local chapel. It is one of those places that actually does have a congregation of 6 elderly women. Yet I really look forward to going there. We always receive a warm welcome and a great sense of appreciation at our presence.
Being such a small congregation they don't usually have accompanient and so, like me, are very grateful that my mother is able to play the piano for them. Like they told us tonight, you don't know how much you appreciate something until you don't have it.
I'm really looking forward to leading there Christmas service on 21st December. It is places like this that speak to me abiout the perseverance and endurance. A church/chapel of 100+ may have many people but no soul. A chapel of 6 elderly women who attend week-in/week out can be a greater servant to the Kingdom without realising it. They keep the doors open week after week through faith and not through the communion plate.
They have no talented speakers, musicians or anything else. What they have is a sense of faith and wisdom that many churches could do with.