MORE THAN WE BARGAINED FOR

FROM THE EDITOR

MORE THAN WE BARGAINED FOR

I love the cover art from Kevin in this month’s Connections.

That big fish—you can see where Kevin was going with the caption for the image (see contributors page). But to me it seems in many ways to be like God himself in relation to many of us unsuspecting followers. We think we’re catching a little fish, but they’re all scattering, and there’s something much bigger than we realize submerged beneath the depths.

Eric Channing thought he’d likely be at College Church for the rest of his ministry life. Then the call to pastor at Hope Fellowship swallowed him up and he and his family are on their way to something big and new.

Lois Krogh finds herself in Georgia in a cross-cultural experience not unlike moving to another country altogether. Welcome to ChristChurch.

Katherine Baylis looks back at summers past and sees beyond nostalgic photos to the friendship that last.

Lorraine Triggs tells the story of two missionaries who come home from the mission field in the 1930s, and the choices they made then are still at work today in the lives of missionaries seeking respite and refreshment.

Matt Anthony, our newest pastoral resident, recalls his appetite for sin and his hunger to know discover whether or not his faith in Jesus is the real thing.

Wallace Alcorn declared a major on college and looks back decades later at the choice he made.

Autumn Simpson tells the story of the SFS Art Studio and how art is helping people discover gifts and ways of expression they never knew they had.

Alison Tews considers the many different callings in a post-Roe/Wade world.

God is working in ways we can’t fully imagine. How could we? We aren’t God. But so often we think we know because we know him. We study the Bible. We pray. We do the good things we know good people should do.

Just because he’s working through us, well, that doesn’t mean that we understand a lot of how and why he’s doing what he’s doing. Think about that as you read this issue. So often we are in our little boats hoping to catch a small perch or trout, when God has something gigantic in mind that goes way beyond what we can even imagine.

God gives us more than we bargained for. This is a good thing. These are good stories. Be encouraged.

Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.

WIL TRIGGS