Wow. Now that ministry is more than just something casual for us, we are really starting to feel it on Mondays. When I say “we” I really mean “me”. Because Cheryl had extenuating circumstances – namely 36 hours of nausaea and vomiting. Then again, covering all the parental bases for her while she’s been sick [...]
This weekend might have easily been considered overwhelming. We had so much on the go. Friday night was our first small group meeting of the fall, which went smoothly, but it was interesting forging a new dynamic for the season with much more concrete goals and planning. We’re much more comfortable in doing what is [...]
I just realized it’s been almost a week between posts. Sorry about that. We’d been doing great, posting almost every weekday and the odd weekend. The last week of days has been super intensive. Cheryl had her first day of teaching at TWU, and she had to spend two more evenings doing some supervisory stuff [...]
This is going to sound completely self-centred, but given what I know about myself, and my own struggles with confidence, last night’s one-year anniversary at Community of Hope was incredibly special and meaningful to me for a number of reasons. Let me tell you about it. We had our Awana leadership walkthrough before the Vision [...]
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Hospitality. What a big word that is. I’m not talking about the number of letters but rather all that it means at least for me. I have been thinking lately about how I need to open up my home a lot more to others but I find it overwhelming. I like people, however, I do [...]
We were back in front of storefronts last night. I was feeling spiritually, emotionally, and physically exhausted yesterday afternoon, and seriously considered staying home. I didn’t get notified where we were going until I was already late which was kind of frustrating but that’s the vagaries of technology. We set up in front of Save [...]
On the weekend we had a meeting to shake down the way our small groups will look this fall. As our church grows I don’t know how long this way of deciding groups will last. With regards to my group, there are several things I feel we did wrong last year. And there are several [...]
There really is so much to cover in our journey to this point, but I imagine it will all come out in time. Giftedness is such a huge part of planting churches. There are things that have to come naturally to you. What excites me about our long-term goal is that God will bring alongside [...]
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