Life Change Inbox

We continue in our Friday series, Life Change Inbox.  I am sharing some of the wonderful emails my husband gets, where people share the work God is doing in their lives through Elevation Church.  Paul wrote in 2 Corinthians 3:2-4 that our lives are living letters written so that God might be glorified.  None of these letters have been changed in anyway.

I hope Jenny Story's story will bless you as it did my husband and I when we read it...

My last name is Story.  And on January 11, 2011, I found out I was pregnant. My husband and I had been trying for all of our marriage to conceive and it finally happened.   We were so excited words cannot describe.  He beamed, I cried tears of joy.   We were so excited about the best Story to come! And for two weeks we lived in bliss.  On January 25, 2011 we had a miscarriage.   We were devastated.  Not that we still do not have our sad moments to this day, but we have great blessings as well and I would like for you to know what they are.  

A few months later, my assistant director invited me to her church service, and at first, I said no.  Then I was thinking about it a few moments after I declined the invite and I decided that maybe I needed God to help heal me after our loss, nothing  else was healing me.  For years I had been saying that I was a Christian but had not found the right church, but I wasn't searching either.  So I decided that yes, I would go.  Then I remembered, she went to Elevation.  I was nervous then.  I had heard the rumors.  So I decided to take a friend with me just to make sure I didn't get brainwashed.  (Yes, these were my real thoughts)  So we went to 3D Easter at Blakeney.  And I felt a presence at Elevation that I had found at no other church.  It was God.  He was and is with the elevators.  My friend and I both liked Elevation, I liked it A LOT.  I rededicated my life to Christ that very day.  I went the next Sunday by myself to the Matthews campus, knowing no one.  I had to go there because it was closer to my home in Concord.  I still liked it and joined the next level group. 

I kept going by myself until the first Sunday of Follow.  I got my husband to go with me to see me get baptized.  He loved it too.  He has decided he doesn't want to stop being at Elevation either.  We both adore it.  And we drive to Matthews every Sunday.  But the best of the blessings is still to come.  You see, I was due on September 11, 2011.  And that most certainly will not be the easiest of days for me or my husband.  But it will be a wonderful day none the less.  Because on that day, Elevation will be opening the new location in the University area.  So God does not have it in his plans for me to have a baby on that day, but he does have it in his plans for me to have a church.  The other day my mother said the "Wow, God gave you a church!"  Now don't get me wrong, I know the university campus is not opening for me or my husband specifically, but it sure does feel like it.    

I want to thank you Pastor Steven for every work that you do for Elevation. I want to thank all the workers and volunteers who make Elevation such a blessing to me and to others.  And I want t o thank the LORD my God for giving me and all of Charlotte this wonderful church!!!!! And that is a better Story than I could have ever imagined!

Jenny Story

Comments

[Keirstin]

Wow! I used to work with Jenny. She is an amazing women. I am so thankful that her and her husband have made Elevation there home. They will be doing wonderful things at the University campus. I love her dearly, and am confident that the Lord will bring the Story's a baby! :-)

[Stephanie]

TEARS!

[Marie]

Great testimony!!! Awesome to see someone focusing on the positive that will happen on that day even though she and her husband will feel sad.

For so many of us the University Campus is a blessing and will be part of our life stories.

September 11th is my husbands birthday...we are from New York...we lived in Charlotte when the attacks happened and since that day when someone asks Joe his date of birth he says it differently.

When we were at Church and heard a University Campus would open on September 11th our 9 year old son looked at us and said - "Wow, what a birthday present dad is getting!!!"

This is putting a positive focus on 9/11 again for our family.

[Rick Dreibelbis]

Great testimony and fulfillment of Scripture! In Nehemiah 13, "...howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing." Amen!

[Misty K]

Beautiful...God is so good

Keep holding on to his promises. God will bring your blessing to past

Psalm 37:4 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass.