The group had their first mid-week study and I would call it a large success. We had 3 visitors! Tim's co-worker Brittany, Tim's mother Betty, and STUART SHANNON!
Tim had been inviting Brittany for several weeks and when I saw her yesterday morning she confirmed that she was going to come. She came and participated thankful for the opportunities that have presented themselves and the work of Tim to invite them to services.
But Stuart is a completely different story...He had told me before I left ATL that he needed to get up to Albany to do some business, but he didn't know when. Well it was last night. Tim had told him the general area it was in as Stuart was driving to his hotel which is less than a mile from the apartment complex he spotted the Alexander and thought, "that's probably Tim's place." Well, he pulls in and sits in the parking lot for a moment and Tim comes walking out the door looking for a visitor. They notice one another and came upstairs for Bible Study. When Stuart walked in I was already teaching the class on Hebrews and I was so shocked I froze mid-sentence. It was great! I thought Tim was just keeping a secret from me, but then I found out after that it was a total fluke that Stuart was there. But we were so glad to see him, especially the members of Mohawk Valley.
We started a study on the book of Hebrews. I introduced the book and covered through chapter 2:5. They were pretty excited when the study ended because they saw how the Hebrew writer is goin to make his arguments that Jesus is better than anything else. I'm looking forward to covering as much ground as possible in the class. And leave them some material if they want it to finish out the book.
Hope all is well where each of you are.
p.s. I'm still at the coffee shop. Maybe we'll have internet tonight at the apartment.
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