C.L.F.

Yesterday morning, Hank and I got up and got everyone fed and ready and headed over to Christian Life Fellowship in Calera. We left our house at 9:50 and pulled into the church parking lot at 9:52!!
We walked into the church and met the pastor, Mark Davis. I immediately noticed that not everyone was dressed in what you typically think of a "Sunday clothes." It was nice to know people too. I took the boys into their respective classes, and ran into Darryl, who works for my dad on the weekends some. And Nicole (you know, the real one) and her husband Matt were there. I also saw several other couples I had met socially. So that felt good.
The praise and worship was good. I was really impressed with their worship leader. He seems so young to have such confidence in his talents! So cool. He even had an injury of some sort and played the keyboard one handed.
Then it was time for the message. Pastor David had obviously been teaching on the four cornerstone principles of CLF. He was on the fourth point, which is service. He made some very valid points about serving. How we should do things expecting ZERO in return. That we should reach out to those in need. That if you are serving out of obligation, you should probably step down. Great stuff.
He also touched on some of the reasons why he believes their church will never be a 'mega church.' He said he believes that CLF will never be huge, because they want to use their resources to help... they aren't in it to make money. He references a financial seminar that they held a couple of weekends back that they actually lost money on.
Over all it was a good experience. The boys went into their classes relatively easily. Tres even came home with two art projects.... oh and a permanant purple marker on his brand-new khaki pants (literally the first time he wore them!).