Jonathan Manafo

This week we (CLC) are focusing on praying a little (or a lot) more. It’s been really cool. From Sunday to Sunday we’ve had the church open (6am-9pm), with 6 prayer stations (confession, cross, scripture, one another, missions, an altar and a community impact station) to go to, experience, and pray specifically. We’ve also planned 3 nights and 2 (early) mornings where we gather corporately to pray. If anyone’s interested on how we did this give me a shout.

I’ll leave you with a scripture from my reading today…Romans 5:2-5

“…we boast in our hope of sharing the glory of God. And not only that, but we also boast in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not dissapoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit that has been given to us.”

That was a reminder to me that my growth & development as a person who follows Christ is a process!

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I’ve waited until this new year to write another post. December was way too busy for anything but family & ministry. We experienced many meaningful gatherings at CLC during the advent season. Lots of reflection on the coming of Christ and his love for the world. We did some very cool arrangements of Christmas tunes too…seriously, we funked them up!

Family time was wonderful. My wife and kids throroughly enjoy this season. Having a 6 and 3 year old makes Christmas lots of fun. Trying to lead them counter culture is a task, but one that I enjoy doing and they seem to be getting. Jacob said that “it’s amazing that only Jesus would give gifts out on his birthday, I only get them.” We went low on gift quantity this year, and the kids were just as happy. Our best family event was New Years day. We brought the kids tobogganing and oh…what a blast. Jacob was trying to snow board with a sled and Madi was going down backwards smiling at us the whole way. For a young dad like me, to quote my son at the bottom of the hill, “that was totally awesome”.

The reality is that as we enter a new year we really have no way to know what’s in store. We always hope for good health, enough money and food & good relationships. As I get older (and I’m still young…I turned 34 today) I go into every year (every day) with lots of faith. To paraphrase an old Hymn, “I don’t know what tomorrow olds, but I know who holds tomorrow”.
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Peace, Love & Recycle for 2008,
jm

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