The Flu & God's Love

Well, it all started just after Valentine's Day on Friday night. Grant came down with it first. I should have known something was up by the size of his belly & the way he kept wandering around the house, rubbing it as if a genie was going to pop out! Although the genie stayed in the bottle, everything else came out soon enough. Within 24 hours, Allison went down with it, followed by BOTH of her parents, and Nicko was not far behind. Have I ever mentioned how difficult it can be to care for vomiting children when you are sick yourself?? Not fun. And even though it's been over a week, we're still wearing out the 1-2 punch of it all. Our bout was followed up with the fever, chills, congestion & killer headaches. We are just now seeing the light at the end of this tunnel!! Needless to say, the flu was terrible. But from what I keep gathering from the media, it's terrible everywhere this year. Lord help us all!

We had our 1st 'organized' Legacy prayer meeting on Saturday night. 12 adults, a guitar and some dessert ushered us right into the Throne Room! We had a delightful time in God's presence, and we are confident that He was pleased with our seeking Him for our nation, our city, and for Legacy Church. We are already looking forward to next month's time of prayer & fellowship.

One thing the Lord highlighted through our time of worship & prayer was His love. His love for us as individuals, His love for His Bride, and His love for lost & hurting people. A 'picture' was revealed of God taking a firebrand and branding Legacy with His love. It would be our identity ~ who we are as a Body within the greater Body of Christ, and within the local community. The Lord truly challenged us to allow His love to 'run through us like water', and that we would never hold blessings to ourselves, but keep them moving outward.

The excitement continues to mount as God continues to set things in place, all the while drawing us to Himself in absolute need of Him. But we don't just want to need Him, we want to want Him! Just because.

Creating Legacy

Well, here we are already in the month of February 08. Time is flying by so fast. I (Chris) am on call as a substitute teacher for a couple of Christian schools here in town, but I'm also working as a receptionist at the Wiregrass Museum of Art on the wkends. Both jobs are perfect for me since I want to be involved within the community & still be afforded the time to invest in preparing for our next adventure!

Speaking of such ... God kept bringing the word "legacy" to our hearts thru the month of January and after studying its definitions and connotations, we realized the idea really sums up all that we feel & want to see accomplished through ministry.

Therefore, we have named this new work "Legacy Church". We are so excited about what God is already doing ... even though we haven't started meeting yet! We have been blessed to fellowship with several local people & share our hearts about what we believe God wants to do here in the Wiregrass area & how we see Legacy fitting into that. We are also meeting with regional Sr. Pastors to share with them our hearts and intentions. It has been vitally important to us to clearly communicate that we are not here to compete with them, but to do kingdom together. So far, so good.

There are several families who are preparing to re-locate to Dothan by June 1st. Not only are we thankful for their zeal in running with us to see this vision come to pass, we are even more thankful to God that He called them to the work of Legacy! We can hardly wait for them join us on this exciting & stretching journey. After their arrival, we will start meeting as a Church privately throughout the summer & early fall. As of today, we believe the public launch to the Dothan / Wiregrass area will be in early October, although we are still praying about the specific timetable.

We'd love to invite you to check out http://www.legacydothan.com/ so that you can see what we've been up to ... finalizing vision statements, core values, etc. Presently, we're in the midst of filing all the necessary paperwork to secure a non-profit status as a church.

We sincerely covet your prayers as this has been the biggest faith-leap we have ever taken in our lives! Although we are terrified & excited at the same time, we are confident because we know we are in His perfect will.

We love you all very much!

Blessings,

Chris & Lisa

P.S. Keep checking back for more exciting adventures in the continuing saga of the Frith family!