Many of you may know that for the two years we've lived in Savannah, we've had a really hard time finding a church home. There are a few placed we've tried to settle into, but to no avail... we never really felt at home anywhere, and that meant we skipped church more often than we went - it was just too hard to drag ourselves out of bed to go someplace where we didn't fit, and didn't even seem like we were really worshipping. Recently we decided to start looking again, and started with an internet search for different churches in the area, broadening our scope past reformed/PCA and more towards non-denominational. The first church we visited with our new gusto was an awkward disaster - no one spoke to us even though we looked totally lost and couldn't find the worship room, and the pastor spoke to us via a videotape. Alas.
The second church we checked out was the Vineyard Church in Savannah. I had gone to a Vineyard for a couple years in Gainesville before Chris and I started dating, so I kind of knew what to expect, but also knew that Vineyards can vary from one another enough that it wasn't necessarily the same as my old church. Long story short, we've gone back every week, and we've really enjoyed it. The pastor is really engaging AND actually teaches AND isn't afraid to tackle the touchy subjects. It's a young church overall, so we've met a lot of younger married couples as well (hooray for married couples!)
We were invited to a homegroup the second week we were there, and have had the opportunity to get to know the pastor a bit more through that, too. After knowing us for all of three weeks he came by our house to lend Chris a book yesterday, and knowing that our car was in the shop (just making sure the brakes they fixed were really fixed, because we had been hearing weird noises) he asked if we wanted to borrow one of theirs for a couple days. Thankfully we didn't need to take him up on it, but I was more than a little surprised at the offer.
So that's our exciting news. Hooray for a church home! And it couldn't have happened at a better time - right after my schedule changed so that we can't go to RUF on Wednesday nights anymore. For every season....
