A New Beginning

By jdgoodwyne on Feb 7, 2010 in Blog

I’m sitting on the floor in my apartment having a a Rogue Dead Guy Ale, working on digesting a Fuel pizza, and watching a House marathon. Apparently the juncture of these three things is a sudden urge to dust off the old blog for the 70th time.

So here I am. And here’s the update.

My wife, Julie and I, along with our dogter Chloe, now live in Charlotte, NC. By the grace of God, I’ve been generously blessed to be the Director of Worship at Uptown Church in Uptown (read: downtown) Charlotte. I really couldn’t begin to describe how thankful I am for this position. This may seem strange considering my last post began with a declaration of employment elsewhere. I may say more about that at a later time.

Uptown Church has been in Uptown since 1994. It is a congregation of the Presbyterian Church in America, planted by Christ Covenant PCA in Charlotte. We meet in the Great Aunt Stella Center which, until the year of our Lord 1997, was the Tabernacle ARP Church. Amazingly, this really is what the sanctuary of this incredible building looks like. The beautiful pipe organ works wonderfully. I plan on taking some shots of the church to post later.

We moved to an apartment in the Uptown area of Charlotte on the westside, called Wesley Village apartment homes. It’s a brand new development, which has pros and cons. For instance, our pad is pretty swanky with brand new stainless appliances and all. No bad smells, everything is very clean and new. But they also made all sorts of promises of amenities, that we have yet to see come to fruition. There’s no dog park, the gate still doesn’t operate, the lounge and pool room are still not open past 6pm because they haven’t worked out the concierge service, etc. And in recent news, we had to go downstairs 4 nights in a row to turn down the music in the fitness center which was pounding through our floor. This is (Deo volente) our last apartment.

Julie and I have gotten to know so many great folks at Uptown already. Our Life Group is very close to where we live and is filled with people our age. I’ve met some really great guys to drink and smoke talk about God with. Uptown has a pretty close relationship with Reformed Theological Seminary, and a great number of the students go to Uptown. This makes for weighty Sunday school.

We’ve experienced many things in the brief two months we’ve been here so far, some of which I hope to expound on later, including a seemingly endless supply of incredible eateries, a sad and tragic death in the church, and God’s mercy to sell Julie’s car and my motorcycle. More to come.

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