I haven't blogged on it much this year, but in between our travels with the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour Michelle and I have been in the midst of our FOURTH year of ministry at the Music City Motorplex at the TN State Fairgrounds...WOW!
Looking back to the first two years that Michelle and I were at the Motorplex and seeing where things are today is just amazing. There is a renewed, heightened sensitivity towards God throughout the community...and it has been humbling, yet exciting to be used as a funnel in this community, sharing the goodness and fullness of his Grace.
Two years ago Michelle and I held our first chapel service at the Motorplex, one person was in attendance. For the remainder of that season Michelle, one driver, and I paused a few moments after each drivers meeting to look at God's word.
Fast forward two years. Two weeks ago another Motorplex race fell on a Sunday, to which Raymond, Michelle, and I organized a chapel. Well over fifty of us gathered together, sang Amazing Grace, spent time in prayer, and then looked to God's word. That is not something that you see everyday at a racetrack. That is God working in peoples lives.
We have also been thankful to have Raymond Rizzo as a part of the team this year. At the end of 2006 we realized that our schedule was becoming bigger than we were. Through our friendship with Raymond, we developed a ministry relationship that was nothing short of a God thing. Raymond has connected with people Michelle and I couldn't connect with, spanned bridges we thought couldn't be spanned, and been a creative, motivational go-getter in the ministry.
I can't fully capsulate what has transpired over the past 4 years at the Motorplex, and how God has acted on behalf of so many people. For those of you who know what I went through the year and a half leading up to our ministry at the Motorplex, you are probably just as astounded and amazed as I am. For those of you who don't...ask me sometime!
I wish I could put it to words...but one day in Heaven, we will all see the importance of this ministry.
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