Happy New Year

Transition House Celebration
What a joy to celebrate with Tonya and Amber over their next “transition”. Tonya has been at the house for over one year and Amber for 7 months. They are moving out together to an apartment here on James Island. What a great idea to move in together as the next step. We are so proud of them and look forward to their continue growth and leadership.

Late last week I also learned that another of our Transition House residents is transitioning out. Crystal will be moving this week to a house in North Charleston. We will look forward to celebrating with Crystal the same way we celebrated with Amber and Tonya. Each of them deserve their time to shine! Way to go Crystal. To God be the glory.

We will be planning a Wednesday night celebration for them all coming up real soon. I want to say thank you to our church family and church leadership for taking risks. After all, what do we know about “Transition House” living? What we do know is the One who helped us all transition from the life of darkness to the life of light. This is not a ministry without problems. It has been extremely blessed and successful.

Brrrrr….
Just a word of thanks for your wonderful patience during the time of exchanging our heating and air conditioning systems. If it is absolutely too cold for you, let me invite you to temporarily serve in the preschool or children’s ministry. They are the only ones who have heat. The downstairs and upstairs class rooms do not have heat. My adult classroom was just as cold as the downstairs classrooms. The youth area was just as cold as the fellowship hall area. All God’s children were cold. Well actually, the children and preschoolers were not. All God’s youth and adults were cold. What a wonderful joy it will be to not drain the water tower every time the temperature goes below freezing. What a pleasure it will be to not have to fire up the boiler or figure out why it is not working on Sunday morning. For the joy set before us, we gladly suffer a few Sundays. Again, thank you for your wonderful patience and understanding. You are the best.


See you Sunday, good Lord willing,


Pastor Tom