Down, Out, and Up

Our journey through the Old Testament moves to the turning point of the Old Testament: the Exodus. God’s chosen people are enslaved, they are groaning, and God hears their cries and responds to them by calling an unlikely, but prepared, leader named Moses. Moses confronts the causer of injustice—Pharaoh with the message from God to “let my people go.”

Spoiler alert: Eventually the Israelites are free, and they go to the promised land. It takes them forty years of wandering in the wilderness before they are ready to enter the promised land. Someone once said about the Israelites that “you can take the Israelites out of Egypt, but you can’t take the Egypt out of the Israelites.” Their point was this that, after living as slaves for so long, it took them a long, long, long time to learn to live trusting God in a new way.

This year marks 20 years that our church has been involved in partnership ministry with Eugene Field Elementary. Our church knows that transformation takes time, and it