God's Got Me

Well, welcome to today's episode of "A crazy view into the life of a sleep-deprived mother of four, but no need to worry, God's got me."

I am very excited for our children to be involved in the Christmas pageant at our church.  I know this church has a Christmas pageant, but we were not attending this church a year ago, so this will be our children's first year to have the opportunity to participate.

Our church is currently hiring a Director of Children's Ministry and the position has been vacant for four months... so as we creep close to the Holiday season, I have been getting very nervous that I've received no word about the Christmas pageant.

So, on Monday I contacted a friend who teacher Sunday school and asked if she knew if anything was in the works.  She said she has heard nothing.

So, I emailed the church office.  I greeted the secretary by name, I said how excited I was for our children to participate in the Christmas pageant and how I would love to help in any way I could.  Could she please share any planning details with me or let me know how I could help.

That was Monday.

I heard nothing back.

Finally on Friday I received a reply telling me that the church was not going to do a Christmas pageant this year but they would do a Christmas Eve service which would be open to the whole town of (she named a town 15 miles away).  She said there were no plans to have the children do any sort of show for the Christmas Eve service either, but thank you for the offer to help and she would save my information for the future.  Signed, a different name than the secretary I emailed.

I was really bummed for less than a minute to hear they weren't doing a Christmas Pageant.

Then I started connecting some dots.

Why would the Christmas Eve Service be for a town 15 miles away?

Why would a different secretary email me back.

Oh, well because I emailed the wrong church, that's why.

I emailed the church we were attending a year ago, a church that does not put on a Christmas pageant and has as much smaller Christmas program than the church where we currently attend (which is 1 mile from our house)

Both church offices have an email that starts with:

office@new....... .com

They are about the same length, but just a few letters different there in the middle.

I am incredibly glad that this church did not take me up on my offer to coordinate a Children's Christmas Pageant for the church where we no longer attend, 15 miles from our house.  I am a little worried about their saving my information but I haven't quite figured out how to explain the mix up and ask them to disregard my email.

All that being said, God's got me.

He knew where my incorrect email was sent -- and, Praise God, He did NOT put me in charge of a Christmas Pageant 15 miles away.

And, now that an email has been sent to the CORRECT church office, hopefully I can get some details in how to help with a Christmas Pageant that WILL happen this year at the church where we CURRENTLY attend, which is 1 mile from our house.

Oh my.  Thank you, Lord for having my back.  I clearly need it.