Beginning to settle in and regroup for the Morning Mindset's future!

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Carey Green
June 11, 2024

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Perhaps the biggest ministry transition of our lifetimes is underway. I began my first week as Lead Pastor at GracePoint on June 1st. The learning curve involved in stepping into the leadership of a church this size (600-ish) is pretty weighty.

Your prayers for us have sustained us - no doubt!

Updates as of 6/11/2024

PASTORAL TRANSITION

GracePoint church is beginning to feel like family already. Though I know we will run into various forms and levels of dysfunction and/or difficulty in time (all churches have them), so far the transition has been smooth. The GP family has made us feel very welcome and wanted. That always feels good.

I probably won’t mention my pastoral role much going forward, since things are finalized and moving forward, but I appreciate your continued prayers that we will step into the role with the LORD’s confidence and grace, serving humbly as He leads us to serve.

MORNING MINDSET

I have been able to reorder my schedule to accommodate my new role at GP AND allow me to continue recording the Morning Mindset in weekly batches. I used to record 7 episodes at a time, every Tuesday morning, but going forward I’ll be doing that on Friday mornings (my day off from GP).

I will be recording the Friday “Pray Together” episodes on Friday morning too. I think it’s going to work pretty well given what I know about my schedule so far.

Continue to ask the LORD to guide me as I prepare my heart and mind for recordings each week. I never want to fly by the seat of my pants or take the MM lightly. It’s a HUGE responsibility that I want to hold in a place of high regard and priority.

DIGGING DEEPER

I am thankful and honestly, quite excited to be able to offer something to the partners-only “Digging Deeper” listeners that I haven’t been able to provide consistently for some time - full-length teaching (sermons) on specific topics or passages. This will be possible because the church I lead (GracePoint) records each service on audio and video, so I’ll be able to pass those along to listeners.

The sermon series I’ve begun at GP is called “Jesus, in His own words” and is focusing on the statements Jesus made in the Gospel of John about Himself - “I am the light of the world,” “I am the true Vine,” etc.

I’m not sure if I will include entire sermon-length audio for each DD episode or if I will split them up for the sake of having more easily consumable audio episodes. If you have an opinion on that, let me know!

Ask the LORD to use these sermons far beyond the Sunday morning they are initially presented - to bless and equip His people all over the world through the Partners-only podcast.

A RECENT LISTENER STORY

Most of the time, I include encouraging emails from listeners in these emails - but today I want you to get a slice of the kinds of needs that exist in the MM audience.

I receive emails similar to this one 2 or 3 times a week and have the honor of responding with biblical counsel.

Will you commit to praying for this young woman and the many more like her who are struggling to know God’s heart and live according to His ways?

❝

I’m new to your podcast and I’m super struggling right now. I was abducted by my Uber driver or someone pretending to be one, and he tried to rape me. I’m newly married and this really broke me. I’m so careful and I had just begun to make peace with my life (I lost a lot of friends as a result of getting married, I found out in a very sad way they were bad mouthing me and him at the wedding itself). My family blamed me for the assault and I would say faith is the only thing that kept me going. I had PTSD, and what makes it worse is the police have been very unhelpful. I poured myself into work and to fertility treatments as we had been trying to conceive before the assault: and so far still no luck. I just found out I got passed over for a promotion unfairly and just feel I desperately don’t understand what I’m doing wrong, and if God is trying to tell me something.
What do you suggest?

It’s YOUR prayers that empower me (through God’s Spirit) to have the wisdom I need to guide people like this.

Pray also that these people will be surrounded by Christians in their areas - faithful and biblically-grounded people who can encourage them in true faith and holiness.

DON’T STOP PRAYING!

Mindi and I are eager to pray for you, too! Can you hit “reply” and let us know what you need the Father to do in your life?

We love you friends,

Carey and Mindi