Energy In Town

There are so many stories that can be told from the wonderful week we had in Nairn. I thought I would share one that happened Thursday afternoon on the street...

Megan and I were wandering through town on Thursday afternoon and I ducked into a little shop that a few of us Americans have a tendency to frequent. It's a little second-hand shop that often times has some of the best, old Scottish brooches, among other things.

When I was talking with Jim, the fellow who runs the shop, he made an interesting comment that caught my attention, a comment that makes me realize that our impact in Scotland reaches beyond those whom we immediately encounter as we are there day in and day out. Jim told me that although he had not yet seen any of us, he just knew we were in town. He said that there was a different energy in town during the week, that people were a little more uplifting and optimistic... a little more energetic about life. He told me that it's like this every year when we Americans come into town.

It's different hearing a story like this. Jim has nothing to do with Holiday Club or the Free Church. The only reason we encounter him is because we drop into his shop each year. It really is a blessing to have conversations like these with others in Nairn, especially when it's someone that we do not regularly encounter when we're in town. It's a blessing to hear that your ministry is having an impact beyond that which you could ever imagine, especially when you consider that you're there to support the church and minister directly to the children in town through Holiday Club and afternoon sports & crafts camps... and then comes the story of how you impact the entire town. What a blessing and huge encouragement it is to know that we as believers, the walking Gospel, the hands and feet of Christ, can have such an impact beyond that which we "came" to do.

Please be in prayer for this town, it's people, and especially for the churches there. The Gospel is beginning to pierce the darkness and the Light of Christ is shining through. Pray that hearts and lives would be changed and that there would be a revival that would sweep through Nairn, Inverness, and the rest of the Highlands and beyond through Scotland and the rest of the UK, Europe, and the world. And praise God for the great work that He is doing.

Cheers!