A Special Update from the Heurion Family

And a Few Thoughts on Life Transitions

Main Street in LaGrange, Kentucky

After an extended season of searching, praying, and seeking counsel from trusted friends, family, and mentors, our family is excited to announce that I have accepted the position of Pastor of Discipleship & Outreach at LaGrange Baptist Church in La Grange, Kentucky. My role there will include working alongside of our Connections Coordinator in helping guests and new believers get plugged into the life of LBC, continuing to strengthen ongoing discipleship efforts while implementing new ones, and creating strategies to help our members reach La Grange and the world with the Gospel.

As our family prepares for this next chapter, we would sure appreciate your prayers. Here are a few ways you could do that:

• Pray for our move (and all that moving entails) and for us to find housing where we can be a beacon for the Gospel in our neighborhood.

• Pray for LBC — That the Lord would enable us to keep building faithfully upon the strong foundation of ministry that has already been in place at LBC for a long time.

• Pray that our kids would make friends quickly and enjoy their new school. One praise on that note is that they’ve gotten to know a few of the pastors’ kids and we have already seen friendships budding there :)

• Pray that the Lord would help Candace and I to cultivate deep relationships with fellow church members and give us the grace to be generous with opening our hearts and home (see point 1 above).

• Pray for our family & friends in Alabama — While we are excited for a new season of pastoral ministry, it is always bittersweet to leave people that you love so dearly. But praise be to God that in His kingdom there are only “See you laters.”

• Most importantly, pray that through it all Christ would be seen as the all-surpassing, infinitely valuable Treasure that He is.

A Few Thoughts on Life Transitions

Times of transition can be exciting. And they can be tough — whether it’s an upcoming move, a new job, or a new season of life (or all three!). But if we have eyes to see and ears to hear and hearts that understand, there are also many blessings to uncover. Here are some that I’ve discovered over the last few months.

• Transitions can uncover idols in our hearts.

When it is clear that a season of our lives has come to an end, we can have a hard time letting go. Depending on just how difficult it is to let go, however, could point to idolatry in our hearts. It is okay to miss a previous season and even reflect on the good times that it brought. But when we refuse to let it go, it may reveal that there was something in it we were clinging to to bring us a sense of significance and satisfaction. But as believers, we know that our hearts are only truly at rest when they are at rest in the Lord (thank you, Augustine, for that wise tidbit). Times of transition provide us with an opportunity to examine what good things we may have allowed to become ultimate things and, therefore, idols.

• Transitions give us the chance to try new things.

This Substack is a product of my most recent transition. And I have thoroughly enjoyed thinking through and writing articles each week that hopefully “stretch your mind and stir your heart.” When you find yourself in a time of transition, look for new things to try!

• Transitions can help us discern our most important relationships.

When it’s time to say goodbye, we quickly realize which relationships in our lives are most important to us. So moving forward, make sure that you regularly communicate to them how much those relationships mean to you. Close proximity can sometimes cause us to take these relationships for granted.

• Transitions invite us to meet new people who will be added to that list of most important relationships.

There are people we know in Missouri, Georgia, and Alabama who have deeply enriched our lives. In fact, I couldn’t imagine not knowing them! And I know that the same thing will happen in the ministry that awaits us at LBC. The same thing is true for transitions in your life. You will leave your neighbors and co-workers and fellow church members that you love. And it will be hard. But you know what? You will also meet new neighbors, co-workers, and fellow church members that you’ll come to love dearly too.

• Transitions provide an opportunity to re-evaluate our relationship with the Lord.

Similar to the first point above, times of transition provide an opportunity for us to take inventory of our relationship with the Lord. And the sweet blessing is that it is in these times that we often realize just how good the Lord is and how the joy in knowing Him can bring our hearts a kind of gladness and peace that transcends all of our outward circumstances. And that’s got to be the greatest blessing life’s transitions offer us.

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