We are taking a leap of faith and dedicating this month to visioning the future that God has called our church to. Granted it may feel like envisioning a future amid this pandemic is an exercise in futility. After all, we have seen many schools across the country open their doors for a new school year, only to have to close them again, due to COVID-19.
The visioning we are looking at is not the regular kind, where we talk about our plans a year, five, or ten years from now. We are focusing on the kind of visioning that was found in the movie Frozen II. There is a point in the movie where one of the characters doesn’t know what to do because of changes that suddenly happen in her life. She sings:
Just do the next right thing
Take a step, step again
It is all that I can
To do
The next right thing
I won’t look too far ahead
It’s too much for me to take
    In the past, we may have prayed for God to change the circumstances around our lives, while being satisfied with remaining the same. But maybe the kind of visioning God wants us to consider is the change that He wants to make in our lives. Learning to trust God and being willing to take the next step we know He has called us to take is our challenge this month, as we explore our theme: “The Story of Our Future.”