… that another God-incident had taken place in my life recently. I’m a bit slow to wake up sometimes.

I was reading the book Faith & Work: Do They Mix? by Os Hillman. This is a great book for those who feel that God is leading them to a ministry in the workplace. I know that is where I am supposed to be and have known it for a number of years now. The book is truly emphasising what I’ve been feeling and there is an increasing excitement building within me as I progress through this book.

Readers of this blog will know that I’ve recently become involved in new ministry that is birthing at our church – a business ministry. The other members and I all have the same knowledge – a calling by God to serve Him in our workplaces. This book emphasises that.

And yet, I would not have known about this book if it hadn’t been for a lady who placed a comment on this blog to one of my other posts. She told me about the MarketPlaceLeaders website and to look in the TGIF archives – there I found a daily devotional called Today God Is First which I now receive. And there I saw more of Os Hillman’s book and there were three on special, I bought all three and am reading this one first. I had no idea this movement was sweeping the world and has been for awhile – I just knew what I was supposed to be doing and that God had shifted Graham and me to Bayside Church for that reason.

Amazing – I started to learn about blogs for a client of mine, got hooked and started doing my own, started this one because of something our Pastor said in a sermon some months ago, and then via a comment get propelled further along my path towards my goal. God is so amazing! KMT

Have you ever had that experience when you’ve known someone for a time, lost touch and then years later you meet up with that person again? It makes you feel like you’ve come back to where you were all that time ago.

That happened to me today. Twelve years ago in the first year of my business I did work for a man whose office wasn’t far from mine. For a while we kept in touch but then I lost track of him – he’d shifted offices but I didn’t know where to and he dropped off my mailing list.

Three weeks ago I got an email from the Pastor of my church introducing the name of the man who would head the business ministry in our church – the name was the same as the man I did work for 12 years ago. I knew instantly it had to be the same guy as his name is quite unusual. But I had no idea he was a Christian and he wouldn’t have known it of me either – guess it was just something we didn’t talk about then.

Today we had our first business ministry meeting at my home and Richard and I were able to be re-acquainted and explain to the others there that we had met many years ago. It felt in some ways that I’d gone full circle and I feel confident that I’ll be working with this man again – not for him as in the past, but for God, with him and the others. The others also shared stories that showed all 5 of us had travelled paths that taught us similar lessons and had now brought us all together.

After this morning’s meeting I couldn’t help feeling excited – a new chapter is birthing in my life and along with it, will be many of the business people I’ve dealt with on and off over the years – all of whom have migrated to the same church. I was amazed as I went through the church directory today because I thought I only knew up a handful of people but there were 23 and all were business connections! And there may be others I haven’t yet discovered. God’s got something cooking….. KMT

I got a phone call from the printer of my BNI chapter who is only a few mintues’ drive from me. She had a Pastor in there who wanted some typing done so she sends him to me. Turns out he’s one of the Sudanese from Heatherton CRC where my husand and I used to attend for 10 years and which we left only a year ago*. He needs a Rules of Association typed for the new Sudanese church being established at Heatherton. He, and the senior pastors there had been trying to find a copy of this document on the church head office website but it’s not there so he had to find someone to type a copy from the example he had – what are the odds of him going to Highett only to be directed to me? Totally awesome! KMT

*As an addendum, I should explain that Graham and I shifted to another church because of a direction from God and a change in our Ministry. We loved the years we spent at Heatherton and have many friends there – with a daughter marrying a son of one of the Pastors from there later this year.

I was sharing with a friend on the weekend about how Graham and I came to be at our current church. We’d been talking about this blog before that and when she heard the story she told me there was another God-incident I should be sharing. I hadn’t thought of that in this way but it is true.

We’d been at our previous church for around 10 years, and our girls had grown up during that time. Graham and I had been housechurch leaders for 8 years, I’d been secretary at the church for a couple of years (until a word was spoken over me some months previously by a visiting Pastor saying that God wanted me in the business world and not working in the church office), Graham had been on the business council and we’d also been the Singles Ministry Leaders. So, we were comfortable there and had fit in well. However, I’d tried to get some business breakfasts and meetings happening – an outreach to business people. These hadn’t been successful but I couldn’t help feeling that was what I was supposed to be doing.

Over the last couple of years we’d become restless and different things that happened or were said to either of us prompted us to feel it was time to move on. We discussed this feeling of restlessness and what we should do and where would we go? A couple of business associates of mine were attending Bayside Church and I knew there was a large group of business people there – I couldn’t help wondering if that was the place? The feeling was growing that we needed to mix with other Christian business people – there were few in our church we had been attending. We decided to pray about it and perhaps go attend a service the following Sunday.

All that week every business person I met with was a Christian and attended Bayside. Some of them I’d known for a few years but I had no idea – it had not come up in our discussions until that particular week! I met a couple of business people I’d not known before – they also went to Bayside. I rang my husband and told him ‘all roads lead to Bayside’. So we attended that Sunday and on entry were handed the newsletter, sermon notes and a bookmark with a list of goals for 2005. I scanned the list and my eyes quickly picked up an item near the bottom – a goal to establish a business ministry in the church. I knew immediately we had come to our new ‘home’ church and that is where we are today. A co-incidence? I don’t think so!