Our Life & Times

This is a sunset we viewed last week from our bedroom balcony. Brian took this picture. The Colorado skies are beautiful. You know, when we first moved here in October 2000, after being in the Air Force for 8 years, I was excited to live in CO, but a little sad to leave all our friends behind in CA. It took quite a while for me to finally adjust to living here since there is snow, my husband has history here and I don't (I'm from Beaufort, SC), and it was just hard all around for me to make new friends. Our first house we lived in here was an old farm house we rented on several acres, which meant, you guessed it, no neighbors! I finally got a job working in the Hallmark store in the mall, which BTW was a fun job, but still I was a lot younger than the other ladies that worked there and we didn't have too much in common, so still I did not have an outlet to make new friends. Then, we built our house we live in now in Milliken, CO, and I met a few of my neighbors. (I can't say I liked them all, but FINALLY I was meeting some people.) Then, our son came along. I started meeting other kids' moms, people through the kid's sports, and then we joined Milliken Presbyterian Church. I never felt such a sense of belonging as I did when we first started going to MPC. I have made some wonderful Christian friends there. However, we have not been attending as regularly as we used to because our pastor we had come to know and love took another position in Wyoming, and now we are going through an interim time with an interim pastor. We don't feel we are being spiritually fed what we need now, and somehow we have fallen through the cracks. I am in such a pickle as to what to do. Do we stick it out and wait until whenever we get a permanent pastor to see what happens then,or do we visit other churches, I am so confused???? My mom has been telling me to visit other churches, which I am not opposed to doing, but what about the fact that we have been attending MPC since Konnor became a part of our family? He has grown up in that church, was baptized in that church, etc? I have talked to him about the possibility of visiting another church, and he never says anything at all. Does that mean he doesn't care or he doesn't want to or what??? UGH!!! Seriously though, other than attending Vacation Bible School this summer, and my husband's monthly Trustee Board meetings, neither of us have been to an actual church service since May. I feel terrible about it, but we are so confused on what to do. I know deep down what we need to do is pray about it... I would love to find a church which has Christian men Brian's age that he can have something in common with so that he can grow spiritually, and I would love to find a church with a youth program that Konnor can meet kids he has things in common with so he can grow spiritually, AND I would love to find a church where I can meet other Christian women I have things in common with so that I can grow spiritually. A place where we all feel a sense of belonging. I know that we should always find a sense of belonging in God's house, and we used to at MPC, but quite honestly, we don't anymore. What would you do?