May 22, 2013

Interesting how we come back to the same place on occasion.  I looked at the Wanderings copy of just a year ago and saw that it had let people know that Emmanuel was “alive and letting the neighborhood know that it is”.

It’s alive to the arts, it’s alive to music, it’s alive to gymnasium sports – basketball and volleyball. It’s even alive to the smell of coffee ( Port & Anchor is our in-house “hide out”).  Our residential and business neighbors in Fremont, Wallingford and Phinney Ridge have found that it is alive, too.

The building is even looking alive, thanks to several committed, hard working guys and gals who exhibit a love for that ol’ pile of brick and mortar.  It is a place of life.  It’s a place one should come to find out about life.  There are people there who are willing to talk about life in today’s world, and if you want to talk about life in tomorrow’s world they’ll be glad to share their hope in that, too.

Emmanuel is just a place that has been set aside for the purpose of exploring who is this person called Jesus Christ, and is he relevant.  He himself said that he came to make life available in a rich, full, bountiful, ample, generous, plenteous way. (John 10:10)   I can vouch for that.

-Norm