This past Sunday was a phenomenal Sunday! We were blessed to have Manuel Calderon give us the vision of the Siempre Familia Iglesia de Cristo. Manuel has served at Legacy for a short while as our Hispanic outreach minister. He and his family are awesome, and we are incredibly blessed to have them. The elders at Legacy have charged Manuel this past Sunday to be a local missionary for the Fort Worth Hispanic community. The Calderons and a team of Hispanic missionaries are working to make an eternal difference on the Hispanic community living in the Fort Worth area.
We had the privilege of worshiping with the members from the Siempre Familia Iglesia de Cristo this past Sunday. In fact, we had a bilingual worship service! It was so awesome to gather around the table and hear the scriptures being read in Spanish. It was moving to hear the prayers being lifted up in both Spanish and English to the same God – our God! It was awesome to hear 1000 people singing in both Spanish and English. It was especially awesome for me because I was leading the singing that morning. I was blessed to be able to lead alongside Javier Leon (one of the missionaries for the Siempre Familia Iglesia de Cristo).
If you were here Sunday morning you know how awesome of a day it was. It was a realization of the greater body that is the Lord’s Church. I think as humans we often forget that the body of Christ spreads beyond whatever language we speak, or whatever skin tone we have. The Lord’s body is world-wide and is made up of every people, nation, tribe, and tongue. What a blessing it was to be reminded of the reconciling power of Christ’s blood, that all languages and people were created and are loved by the same God.
We also started our morning with a baptism. Annika Burns, one of our sweet 7th grade young ladies, was baptized this past Sunday morning. She is a sweet young lady with an even sweeter heart.
We also witnessed the baby blessing of Caden Jake McCormick. Collin and Marisa McCormick left Legacy right at a year ago to work in Germany, and have lived there for the past year. While they were over there they were blessed with a baby boy. Collin, Marisa and Caden were at church on Sunday and we were able to bless them.
That was a wonderful Sunday! We really enjoyed connecting with our Legacy Church family and hearing of the Siempre Familia plans. Having Caden blessed by the church just made the day that much better. It was great to see y’all.