Twenty five years of Water of Life

My earliest memories of Water of Life include going to the Terra Vista building for services and soon relocating Sunday mornings to the Ruth Musser Middle School gymnasium. The high school continued to meet at the Terra Vista building while I was attending. I cannot remember the exact date we first went to WOL, but I know it was in the middle of my Jr. High school grades from 1994-1996. It was both a major transition time for the Church and for me personally.

Previous to Water of Life my family attended another large non-denominational congregation we had been at since moving to California in 1987. There were several reasons why the Lord was leading us to a new church, one which was that I needed a good youth group to start attending once I hit high school. It is hard to believe now looking back that it has been that long. Water of Life is celebrating twenty five years this year, I am about to turn thirty-four years old. Time goes so fast.

In the wonderful miraculous journey that the Lord took the church on during those years, from the inheritance, to the land at East Ave. I can remember praying over the Inherit the Land and Possessing the Land campaigns, which included walking around the property and praying. We sought God for His rich blessings to flow on the land, and on the people who would be ministered to in that place.

In the summer of 2003 I moved away from Water of Life and California to the east in order to get married and start a family. For several years I still listened to sermons coming from the church and Pastor Dan Carroll. I continued to email him regularly to keep him updated on what God is doing with me. I still listen regularly to the messages via the church website and podcast. Every week I am anxious to hear more about what God is doing in the Church and what God is speaking to me through the messages.

We serve a mighty God who is madly in love with people. This is something which I have learned and witnessed over and over again throughout the years. I praise Him for all He does. I think about the prayers we prayed over the land, seeking God’s will and work to be done. There are thousands touched every week in that Church and around the world through outreach missions. God has all the glory for everything. It is a constant reminder to keep praying by faith, even for the things we cannot see or understand right now. We do not know what He has in mind. He is still doing amazing things at Water of Life and doing amazing things in my life.

In the great divinely crafted tapestry of my life, I am thankful every day for Water of Life and the work of those individuals who served and continue to serve God’s Kingdom. I am continually blessed and marked for life having WOL woven into my story. I know whatever He has planned for me now in the place He has planted me will be full of purpose. So I strive forward to what is ahead for all that He wills.