thankful.

i'm continually amazed, humbled, and thankful at how God is using me as a connector in a bigger Story.

remember my sweet african neighbors that He placed into my life? we've been taking the 3 families to church and to play soccer and to the grocery store these last 2 months...
but we at midtown wanted to do something more and give our entire community an opportunity to step into their lives... and not to mention there are a bunch more refugee families in nashville that i'm connected to through african leadership. so we decided to host a massive thanksgiving potluck. midtowners signed-up to bring everything from turkeys to winter coats. and not only that -- we stayed and ate together for a couple of hours. it really was beautiful.
i took a moment to step back and look at a room full of my midtown community and over a hundred africans and just said a little "thank you" to God, in amazement that He could use me to connect these two groups...and at the lives that are different because of it.

and i know this is just the beginning.

here's the room full of 2 of my favorite groups - midtowners and africans
(note -- this is not actually our church -- we borrowed it for the night since we meet in a rented warehouse on sunday mornings!)

with my sweet girls janet, gloria, odett, & joyce

these are my little troublemakers, claude, benjamin, & frank