We’ve often kidded that when we started Highlands Church almost 4 years ago we were “building the plane in flight.” Our first Leadership Team was comprised of the last 6 people holding a beer on the patio of the Highland Cork late one August evening in 2009.  We’d pray, scramble, put our heads together and do what we thought was best. Starting a church like Highlands doesn’t come with an instruction manual, but fortunately, it does come with the Holy Spirit who leads and guides us. However, the Spirit’s leading is rarely in plain English that is readily understood and embraced without complication. But Jesus did say that,  “The Spirit will lead you into all truth.” So we’ve got that going for us!

About a month ago I opened my big fat yapper and said that I was quite sure we would actually be able to have our first service in the newly restored Holiday Theater on June 23. At that time, most people could only see piles of dust and equipment and scaffolding. Someone told me that it didn’t look like we’d done anything since they were in there three months earlier. Ow! But they didn’t know what I knew which is that 75% of the hard work is what happens on the roof, between the walls and under the floors where all the HVAC, electrical and plumbing lines run.