I have been delighted to see the Lord’s hand at work in the Summit we call Gathering 242.
First, the name. It references Acts 2:42 where it says that the church gathered for the apostles teaching, fellowship, prayer and the breaking of bread. That’s what the group anticipates when they gather.
G242 started out as a support ministry for a Saturday night “service” at a conventional church in Vancouver. The idea was the the service would introduce people to more organic Kingdom expressions and those that wanted to get a better idea of what it would be like to do church in a simpler way could come to G242 for a bit of experience before planting a fellowship elsewhere. As it turned out, my goal of creating some healthy synergy between that conventional church and the Saturday night service was to go unrealized. I got canned.
That left us with this group: Gathering 242. We had started “gelling” and didn’t want to lose track of each other, so we just moved the group down to my place and became a “Summit Fellowship.”
Since then, we have increased in numbers, but most importantly, we have begun to experience the Holy Spirit teaching and encouraging us as a family. There are older adults and — praise the Lord!–we have a new baby in our midst. It’s been a blessing to see the Lord take an accidental home church and draw it closer to Him…kinda like a family. Cool!