To say that this evening got a bit interesting is an understatement. I got off work at 4:00 PM and headed home to get ready to head up Mosaic tonight. I was on the schedule to drive the van to pick up our students. Pam and I were ready to leave the house and head to the church, pick up the van and then pick up the students.

One of our Mosaic staff called and asked if we were still having Mosaic tonight. (It had been raining hard for the last hour and thunderstorms were in the area.) The one fact I didn’t know was that there was a tornado warning for our county. It the first real rain we’ve had in a couple of weeks. What should we do? What was the plan? Do we pick up the students in the heavy rain? We pick up between 15 and 20 students for Mosaic. Me and the other van driver with the help of Weather Underground made the decision to cancel Mosaic this evening. There were just too many variables. We had the safety of our students to take into consideration. We quickly made some phone calls and the leaders all felt we made the right decisions. Several students were disappointed. Several parents were also relieved.

So get to the point…The point is that this little crisis made think about what we would do in a real crisis — weather, van accident, or other wise. Yesterday I provided a link to Tommy Mitchell’s Rurban blog. He had a great article following the Virginia Tech shootings that is good for us to ponder — to see this article click [here]. How well are churches prepared for times of crisis?