Shortly after moving here, our Pastor announced from the pulpit that the church acquired an organizational license plate with the church logo, initials and website address. We were invited as a congregation to apply for a license plate and become a driving advertisement.
Matt and I easily decided to apply because we had yet to switch over our plates and knew we were in the place God wanted us. The plates were delayed in their arrival since the DMV ran out of them. Even still, the plates arrived before we joined the church.
In fact, when we had dinner with the Pastor he asked us about our membership and Matt mentioned that we'd ordered the plates. He offered that as a sign of our commitment to join.
The next week at church, the Pastor mentioned wanting to see the plates on our car. I promptly teased that we hadn't put them on the car yet and that he should take that as an accurate reflection of our overall commitment to the church. The expression on his face was telling...I don't think he realized I was joking ;)
Matt often teased as well, saying he was holding out until he tested the limits of how much everyone wants us to join. What they'd be willing to do to get us in and so forth. I wonder if they've known what to make of us. :)
In the meantime, our Sunday School teacher invited Matt and I to begin serving within the hospitality ministry as greeters. Matt was quick to agree and we attended a meeting the next week. The week after we received our on-the-job training. A couple weeks after that we served on our own for the first time. All before we joined the church.
We may be getting things a little out of order.
As of the week of February 20, I'm happy to report I replaced our tags with the Rosedale plates and Matt led us to join the church!
Ahhh...Rosedale is officially our church home.
The church logo on the left, Pastor on the right and sanctuary with congregation in the background (A cool composite picture of the church I found online)
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