Hey TC Family,

Finally! I'm excited to announce that our cafe's floor has been installed and now has a fresh coat of wax. The bathrooms in the cafe will be accessible this coming Sunday. Since we are meeting outdoors all summer, our cafe is not yet set up, but I look forward to using that space for conversation and fellowship this fall. 

This Sunday is BBQ week, a great opportunity to invite friends and family.

This will be the last weekly email for a while. As I mentioned last week, our family is leaving on Sunday after the service to head to New Brunswick to visit family. We will be away for four weeks in August. We will be back for the first Sunday in September.

We have four great services planned for while we are away. I believe our community will be blessed with worship that glorifies God, preaching that points to Jesus and testimonies that prove that God is at work in people's lives today. God is up to stuff in our midst, and I look forward to hearing about what He does in our community through the month of August. 

Luke, one of the young men on the cross-Canada prayer tour shared his testimony for our Transformation Church YouTube channel, you can check it out by clicking the link below. 

Throughout this series, David: Flawed Human, Holy God, we have been diving into stories about David and his interactions with God. We have learned a lot about how God interacts with flawed humans through the life of David. This week we are going to take a look at how David interacted with God but through David's own words. 

Spend some time this week reading 2 Samuel 22 and Psalm 18. These two biblical passages are almost identical; there are minor differences. The author of 2 Samuel decided to include this prayer from David in his narrative account of the life of David. Most of David's prayers are recorded in the book of Psalms. Over the years, scholars have worked hard to discover the timeline of when David's prayers were written. Some, like Psalm 51, are easy and obvious. Psalm 51 was prayed after David was confronted with his sin of murder, abuse of power and adultery. The author of 2 Samuel placed this particular prayer (Psalm 18) near the end of David's life. Of all of his Psalms, this one stands out as his overarching revelation of what he discovered about God and his experience with God. 

As you read this prayer of David, think about your own life. If you were to write a prayer at the end of your life about your experience with God, what would be included in that prayer? Do you encounter God in the everyday roles and tasks of life? David talks a lot about his role as a warrior in this Psalm and about how God was with him and strengthened him in battle. Do you experience God in your vocation, career, in what you do with your life? It could be said that David's life was characterized by God. What would it look like for your life to be characterized by God? 

I can't wait to gather and worship with you this Sunday, and I am very much looking forward to sharing with you what I believe the Lord has laid on my heart from this passage of Scripture this week. 

Pastor Nathan