A light unto the world

Our church is in a transition period. We sold our building and we have been using a conference room (former movie theatre) in Tampa's NetPark for our Wed services and we meet at a local college, HCC Ybor campus, on Sundays.

This was necessary as we had outgrown our previous building and location, so this frees us up in some ways until we can find and purchase a piece of land and or a building.

Our pastor has decided to change our Wednesday evening service by having us meet in each other's homes. For a title of these meeting, he has chosen "Lighthouse Groups". We have done small groups before, but the emphasis seemed to be on fellowship. Pastor's vision for these groups is for the emphasis to be on the word of God. Fellowship will be a natural outflow of that.

The development of meaningful relationships between children of God is very important to me, personally. Yet, I am one of the least successful in this pursuit. I don't know if it's a matter of time management or social skills or what, but I am hopeful that these lighthouse groups will allow more opportunities for me to develop those relationships with my brothers and sisters.

God opens and closes doors.

I don't remember the exact scripture reference for it, but I know I've read it before that God opens and closes doors and no man can resist him in it.

For the last 8 years, I have been working at the same company doing the same job making about the same money. That job has ended and I was faced with a decision of either job hunting or becoming my own employer. My previous employer offered to send me some of his clients. 

My personal leaning is not toward entrepreneurship, but every sermon I've been hearing lately seems to have been preparing me for something like this, so I decided to trust God and do this. 

If I'm going to do it, I'm going to do it right, so I created my limited liability company: TecBrat.com LLC, and got all my other government credentials in order and now I'm ready to walk through this door God has opened in my life. 

I have one client with 5 sites and I should have other clients coming in very soon.

Praise God and watch Him work!