“I love this city!”
April 27th, 2006
April 16, 1994 we pulled our Hertz-Penske moving truck into Chattanooga and we have never been the same since. We are starting our 13th year of ministry (our personal Baker’s dozen) here in this region and I couldn’t be happier about where God has me serving. I love this city! It has become a habit in our family to say the phrase…“I love this city” when we are coming over the ridge-cut and seeing Chattanooga spread out before us or as we cross the Tennessee River going north from downtown.
I never imagined God would have established in my heart such a love for this city when I left Atlanta 12 years ago. But He has and “I love this city”, even though that phrase was not what I was thinking when we first drove over the ridge-cut in the pouring rain with 5 month old twins in the back seat in route for my interview as the director of the Chattanooga Youth Network in March of 1994.
May God continue to enlarge my heart for this region and His purposes here.
May 25th, 2006 at 7:16 am
Me too! This place is beautiful not only because of its gorgeous surroundings - mountains, river, neat downtown - but also because of its people.
Chattanooga seems to be filled with generous givers and community minded folk.
Maybe we will become known as a “Community of Generosity” - Chattanooga - a giving city…