A New Blog?

Welcome to "Pivot Points," a new blog I'm starting along with a few others here at St A's. This first entry is primarily addressed to those who are involved here at St A's Church at Six Points so I can take a moment to explain why we're making this change. Subsequent posts will be a bit more general in nature so as to potentially connect with more people.

Some of you might be asking, "Another blog?! Why on earth do we need another blog?!" Then again, maybe you're asking, "What is a blog anyway?"

A blog is simply a way for someone to communicate to others through the internet. We're starting a blog to replace the mid-week emails I started sending earlier this year. We'll be writing about some of the same things--faith, news, leadership, worship, church life, etc.--just in this slightly different format. And we'll still be sending out brief emails every Saturday to give you a heads up about what's happening on Sunday.

One of the benefits of a blog instead of weekly emails is that it will be more accessible to people who haven't signed up to receive emails. People who visit our website will be able to read our blog entries and even go back to read previous entries. We hope it will help people get a better sense of who we are here at St A's. We'll still send occasional emails to let you know what's new on the blog, but more like once or twice a month.

And why "Pivot Points" (besides the oblique connection to "Six Points", that is)? Well, a pivot point is the centre of any rotational system. If you're scientifically minded, you might think of the fulcrum point under a lever. If you're more artistically minded, you might think of the point on the floor where the ballerina plants her point toe and performs a pirouette.

In other words, it's the point around which everything turns, the point where things change direction.

Not that the blog itself is a pivot point. I'm thinking of something (or Someone) more central, more helpful, more life-giving and life-changing. We like to say that our mission involves helping all people experience a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. That's what it's all about. Everything we do centres on and revolves around Jesus.

Every blog entry won't necessarily speak directly about Jesus, but He will definitely be at the centre, the pivot point of all we do. To him be all glory, honour and praise!