Want to make a difference? Tomorrow, help us feed the hungry in our community. Join us in volunteering at the CLFP tomorrow any time you can between 8-2. #livingwaterslive #mchenrycountyil #crystallakeil #lakeinthehillsil #sharingthegraceofchrist #calledtoserve #ministryinaction #feedingthehungry #foodpantry #LivingWatersCL

Join us for youth group from 1-230 this Sunday! It is our annual Hello Freshmen, Goodbye Seniors! #livingwaterslive #lakeinthehillsil #crystallakeil #mchenrycountyil #fun #youthgroup #LivingWatersCL

Crop Walk is on 10/4 at 1 pm this year, mark your calendar! The first fundraiser is TODAY at Lou's Lakewood. Help us feed the hungry! #livingwaterslive #crystallakeil #lakeinthehillsil #mchenrycountyil #cropwalk #foodpantry #generosity #sharingthegraceofchrist #EveryGiftMatters #ministryinaction #feedingthehungry #LivingWatersCL

Real Prayer – What is real anyway? For a long time, I’ve struggled with prayer. I absolutely have been lost to our God and then contently found, just to be lost and found again. Prayer has helped me at my lowest (lost) and highest (found) moments. My prayer practice surely demonstrates this dynamic and so do my doubts around my prayerful activities, including starting Lost, Found & Transformed. As the obvious jumble of thoughts pour out on this page, I am full again with self-doubt. What am I doing trying to write a weekly (gulp) short message? Who am I to do this? What do I know? And what can I possibly contribute to an already diluted field of voices? I’m so very unworthy! Breathe in, breathe out, and repeat. (And pray!) Then the urge to write is back, as is my prayer. Is it a calling? And I think, that I AM NOT ALONE as I sit with doubt. And I come back to the fact that we have all been and are Lost and Found in Christ. And that it is prayer, a conversation with God that puts all things right. I pray and my very heart, soul, breath is lighter, more at peace. All through prayer? Yes! Exactly! Aren’t we all on a journey of transformation? But to what and where? Each one of us, and for God, has surely has our own journey. Every human on this planet is in some state along the lost and found continuum, either in a relationship with Christ or not knowing Him at all. But in this, perhaps I am among the lucky, to have, though a struggling relationship (with prayer!), known in my soul that no matter how fickle my human heart feels on any one particular day, that I am still a child of God. In that way I am found and miraculously God has continuously been there with me the entire time. I am in a few days ending my 57th year hoping for a new transformation to do more for my God. So, what about this prayer stuff? Do I pray? Yes! Am I doing it right? I honestly don’t know. Is there a right way to do it? Are knees and folded hands required? What if my mind drifts from the prayer to what I need to add to my grocery list? Here is what I think, and yes, I may... (read more at www.lostfoundtransformed.com) #lostfoundtransformed #LivingWatersCL