Rita and Elizabeth Shelton

Our spiritual journey to Commons:

1st contact:
Christmas Eve 2011, we missed our Christmas candlelight worship service at 4:00 o’clock at our small community church. Hey I found the Commons flyer and it’s at Sue Crouch. My daughter wanted to see her school she attended for sixth!! Let’s go. Oh. We were late. We missed Commons on Christmas Eve. We ended up going to South Hill Baptist that night.

“Half” visit:
It was February 25. We’ve attended the “Cowtown Marathon” church service at 5:30 and finished Cowtown. Hey, it’s not even 11:00. Perhaps we can go to “the church at Sue Crouch”…Steve started preaching when we got there. Biblical teaching, very good.

“Full” visit:
We knew that there would be some kind of family Sunday School. So we came at 9:45. After the worship, we stayed to help putting the tables back. My daughter wanted to come back the next Sunday. I told her we should pray about it because we should commit to our church until God told us to go. We went back to our community the next Sunday. Then we came back to visit again.

Why we stay?
One day at work I came across a guy who is a shepherd at our small community church, he noticed that my daughter and I were not at church for “the last two weeks”. I told him we’ve gone to visit “the church at Sue Crouch”. He told me, ”that’s good as long as you get fed.” I pondered what he said. Then the wife of a shepherd from the community church emailed me and wondered where my daughter and I were…”As long as you get fed.” “How long can you spoon feed a baby?” I emailed her back. God answered my prayers. We are staying at Commons.

The Shelton Family