[graceygrammy]

Hi Donna, I understand where you are now. Several years ago I was in the same place. I have gone to a church very close to my house for 12 years. I have watched it grow from around 250 to over 1200 in that time. It is an Independent Baptist church, if you are not familiar with what that means, it simple means, we are Baptist but we don't follow an organized group.

We have a large children s ministry and several buses that run for all services. We have a group that meets on Friday nights called "Overcomers" It is for anyone who is trying to overcome drugs, alcohol, anything that they need support for. Our state even lets those who are required to attend AA or NA to do this instead. We also have a jail ministry. Our pastor is very outreach oriented.

If someone in the church needs help, we join together and help. We have a family right now that their 15 yr. old daughter has cancer and was in the middle of treatment when their house burned. The church has really been there for them and the town has joined in to help.

I know that I have found a great group of people to worship with and I also know how fragile things can be sometimes. I have always heard that if there are no problems it's probably not because your doing everything right, it is more likely that you are not giving the devil anything to worry about.

I hope you can find a group soon that you can grow with.

Deb