A friend invites you to a prayer gathering for months. You put it off. The gathering place is thirty minutes from where you live. Nothing about it seems convenient. But, something about the invitation is intriguing and you remember, in the back of your mind. Maybe one day. Life has changed. You don’t want the same things anymore. The past needs to stay the past and you are eager for God to keep doing a new thing. So, you take the initiative and call for the address. You decide to go to the gathering, even though you don’t know anyone. Here goes nothing or maybe everything. Vincent Thrasher walks in the door.
Vincent is the guy who doesn’t meet a stranger. He’s outgoing and friendly, greeting everyone as the self-imposed host of the party. When he gets excited he talks a lot and can get really loud. He is kind and eager to be involved, a natural contributor to the whole. Some things about Vincent you will not miss, but some you may not see.
Kwathu Children’s Home in Livingstone, Zambia, is one of our global partners. Vincent organized a beautiful wooden sign for Kwathu Children’s Home, in the shape of Zambia, that now hangs in their main living space. He has spent countless hours contacting local restaurants, churches and friends to coordinate speaking engagements for Grace Klein Community. Vincent helped expand the community garden last Spring, assisted in building the new chicken coop and helped care for baby chicks. He is the one who sneaks the ice cream into the freezer for prayer gatherings and let’s the kids bury him under the sand at camping week.
Vincent is willing to sell items (maybe even loudly promote the African drum, which did sale) at a local fundraiser or festival, do lawn work for a single mom in the community, tape boxes for food delivery, chase roosters, share his story to encourage others, prepare meat for the Brazilian night, and load food boxes into cars every month at food delivery. At one of our Family Fun Nights, he graciously served the food to visiting patrons. He is often the first to purchase the next Grace Klein Community shirt or “what not” that goes on sale and attends most every community gathering.
Vincent enjoys the fun and adventure of shared leftovers, bonfires, tents hidden in trees, jokes with park officials, movie nights, experiencing new cultures, worship, pig races, funnel cakes, laughter, listening to children share what they are learning, seeing God answer prayers, agape feasts and time with friends. He is the one who drives out of the way to support a missions yard sale or eat tacos with friends.
Life with Jesus is abundant, full, precious. The days with Jesus still have ups, downs, stressors, anxiety, down right trouble, but something about God’s design of community makes the hard bearable. Maybe the pain is even precious, knowing we are not going to walk the journey alone. Some days we need the scripture Vincent ‘just so happened’ to text to us and he needs the invite to dinner where boys read him scripture and remind him what’s true. Life is better when we know we are not alone in the boat. And even if the boat takes on water, if God has us in community, we will help each other bail out the water or flip it over, laugh, find some of our junk that’s floating, let the rest go, and start again. Vincent makes the Grace Klein Community boat better.
A friend invites you to a prayer gathering for months. You put it off. The gathering place is thirty minutes from where you live. Nothing about it seems convenient. But, something about the invitation is intriguing and you remember, in the back of your mind. Maybe one day. Life has changed. You don’t want the same things anymore. The past needs to stay the past and you are eager for God to keep doing a new thing. So, you take the initiative and call for the address. You decide to go to the gathering, even though you don’t know anyone. Here goes nothing or maybe everything. Vincent Thrasher walks in the door.
Vincent is the guy who doesn’t meet a stranger. He’s outgoing and friendly, greeting everyone as the self-imposed host of the party. When he gets excited he talks a lot and can get really loud. He is kind and eager to be involved, a natural contributor to the whole. Some things about Vincent you will not miss, but some you may not see.
Kwathu Children’s Home in Livingstone, Zambia, is one of our global partners. Vincent organized a beautiful wooden sign for Kwathu Children’s Home, in the shape of Zambia, that now hangs in their main living space. He has spent countless hours contacting local restaurants, churches and friends to coordinate speaking engagements for Grace Klein Community. Vincent helped expand the community garden last Spring, assisted in building the new chicken coop and helped care for baby chicks. He is the one who sneaks the ice cream into the freezer for prayer gatherings and let’s the kids bury him under the sand at camping week. Vincent is willing to sell items (maybe even loudly promote the African drum, which did sale) at a local fundraiser or festival, do lawn work for a single mom in the community, tape boxes for food delivery, chase roosters, share his story to encourage others, prepare meat for the Brazilian night, and load food boxes into cars every month at food delivery. At one of our Family Fun Nights, he graciously served the food to visiting patrons. He is often the first to purchase the next Grace Klein Community shirt or “what not” that goes on sale and attends most every community gathering.
Vincent enjoys the fun and adventure of shared leftovers, bonfires, tents hidden in trees, jokes with park officials, movie nights, experiencing new cultures, worship, pig races, funnel cakes, laughter, listening to children share what they are learning, seeing God answer prayers, agape feasts and time with friends. He is the one who drives out of the way to support a missions yard sale or eat tacos with friends.
Life with Jesus is abundant, full, precious. The days with Jesus still have ups, downs, stressors, anxiety, down right trouble, but something about God’s design of community makes the hard bearable. Maybe the pain is even precious, knowing we are not going to walk the journey alone. Some days we need the scripture Vincent ‘just so happened’ to text to us and he needs the invite to dinner where boys read him scripture and remind him what’s true. Life is better when we know we are not alone in the boat. And even if the boat takes on water, if God has us in community, we will help each other bail out the water or flip it over, laugh, find some of our junk that’s floating, let the rest go, and start again. Vincent makes the Grace Klein Community boat better.
A friend invites you to a prayer gathering for months. You put it off. The gathering place is thirty minutes from where you live. Nothing about it seems convenient. But, something about the invitation is intriguing and you remember, in the back of your mind. Maybe one day. Life has changed. You don’t want the same things anymore. The past needs to stay the past and you are eager for God to keep doing a new thing. So, you take the initiative and call for the address. You decide to go to the gathering, even though you don’t know anyone. Here goes nothing or maybe everything. Vincent Thrasher walks in the door.
Vincent is willing to sell items (maybe even loudly promote the African drum, which did sale) at a local fundraiser or festival, do lawn work for a single mom in the community, tape boxes for food delivery, chase roosters, share his story to encourage others, prepare meat for the Brazilian night, and load food boxes into cars every month at food delivery. At one of our Family Fun Nights, he graciously served the food to visiting patrons. He is often the first to purchase the next Grace Klein Community shirt or “what not” that goes on sale and attends most every community gathering.
Vincent enjoys the fun and adventure of shared leftovers, bonfires, tents hidden in trees, jokes with park officials, movie nights, experiencing new cultures, worship, pig races, funnel cakes, laughter, listening to children share what they are learning, seeing God answer prayers, agape feasts and time with friends. He is the one who drives out of the way to support a missions yard sale or eat tacos with friends.