Psalm 94:18-19
When I thought, “My foot slips,”
your steadfast love, O Lord, held me up.
When the cares of my heart are many,
your consolations cheer my soul.
So here we are again Restore. This coming Sunday, August 29, will be our final Sunday at 21 Pleasantview drive. Starting Sunday, September 5, we will be moving into our new facility at Faith Reformed, 95 Prospect Street in Midland Park. Over the course of 2021, the staff and elders have been working feverishly to find a place for Restore to call home. We spoke with numerous churches, commercial realtors, and even a school to find a place for us to land in the fall.
It wasn’t until we surrendered to the idea Faith wasn’t going to work out that everything came together. We had a plan in place that would work but was far from ideal. Just when we thought our foot was slipping, God swooped in and saved the day. Only God could have put things together for things to work out this way for Restore.
Restore, in its 10(ish) year existence, counting this current move, has had four separate locations. Speaking as someone who has moved A LOT, even I would say that’s too many. However, despite that, the community remains strong. Restore, more than any other church I have ever been a part of knows what it means to do life together. If we ended up with an abandoned warehouse or out in a field, this church would remain strong because of this community’s devotion to one another.
There are times in your life when you feel overwhelmed, when the cares of your heart are many. These are the times when we can look to God for support. And the amazing thing about this is that we get to see God work out this support through our community.
When you experience something traumatic, I pray that there are people around you that can hold you up. And, when you’re back on your feet, you now know what it’s like to come out the other side. You now have the strength to hold up someone else. We get to meet at 95 Prospect St because one member of the community of Christ saw how they could support another member.
God comes through in amazing ways, and He uses the community to do it.