Bethany Community Church

If you were in the services last weekend, you heard in my poem a reference to an angel named Kelly. Kelly was a miracle for myself and the men and women who helped to build the new playground. We had just started the demolition of the old playground. We had rented a backhoe and were beginning to rip out all of the timbers from the old playground. Along came Kelly on his bike in full bike gear and saw us in our plight. Even though he is not a regular attendee at BCC, he stopped and asked one of the guys working if he could drive the backhoe for us. Kelly told us that he does this for a living and would love to help us finish our project. For the next eight hours (yep, he was there ALL DAY) Kelly tore down timbers, broke up concrete (a lot of concrete), buried concrete, loaded trucks with concrete and dirt, and leveled the area. His talents and skills were used by the Lord that day and I know that I am incredibly grateful that he decided to stop and play. What an awesome demonstration of a servant’s heart. I am reminded by his example of our call to “love your neighbor as yourself”. May I seek to respond to that call with my talents and skills in the same way Kelly did.

Brian Hallberg
Children’s Pastor