Church Visit: "A Field of Dreams," Germantown UMC

I really thought I was in a scene from the movie. I half-expected to look up and see Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones, for real. Germantown UMC last Sunday night broke ground for their new building...after something like nine long years of hard work and prayer. It's a beautiful piece of property in an idealic location. 150-200 people showed up. And virtually all of them carried a shovel. It was incredible. Every generation was represented, all of them well, especially the youth, children, and young families. What is your field of dreams? The place where there is nothing and you are dreaming of something? Germantown made it...through a church merger, and all the getting used to living with each other. They made it...after three different pastors, one of which left prematurely as he was called up to serve in Reserves after 9/11. Sometimes we would rather till in a field other than the one we currently own. Most fields of dreams, however, are right outside our own back door. Rent the movie.