Energy Saving Mode
Last year my family and I decided to leave the mega church and find something smaller. Somewhere that is more accepting of individuality, community, and less about how big your pockets are. It was a rough season for us, more so, for our children. Leaving something you've known for most of the seven years on this Earth can be quite challenging. Especially for one who loathes change. After visiting multiple churches, one morning my husband said "lets try that place we always pass, The River". So, we went. Very welcoming from the moment we turned into the parking lot. Familiar faces from childhood reassured me the first time visiting wouldn't be so intimidating. Then to noticing a clock on the wall that we just sold in a garage sale with the same broken hands felt like it was a sign that this could be home for us. Disclaimer: I asked, it was not our clock we sold. But how coincidently that it was broken just like ours had been. We have been so welcomed there. From
