admin on February 2nd, 2009

Social networking pays off. Over the past year or so I have been gradually getting out on to the internets, and attempting to network with other church planters and such through blogs and twitter.  I have also become more and more involved in facebook.  There are some that might look on these things as time [...]

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admin on January 29th, 2009

It’s getting to that time, where we need to start thinking about accumulating supporters. So if you read this blog, you may well be one of them. Heh.  Don’t worry.  We aren’t asking for money (yet!)  At this stage, we would like to build a base of prayer support.  If there is one thing to [...]

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admin on January 28th, 2009

I keep on thinking “The Scouting Trip” seems like such a lame name for what we’re planning to do in a couple months.  But to explain more means to be much more long-winded than I want to be. But yes, that’s the big news.  We’ve set a week aside now.  March 22-28 we will be [...]

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admin on December 22nd, 2008

Last night was our leadership Christmas dinner. A lovely time was had by all, by appearances. It looks like we may have a new couple joining us – more hands make lighter work! So, going into the holidays, I can feel momentum beginning to build with my wife and I, and also with my pastor, [...]

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admin on November 18th, 2008

It’s a good thing that I have some good friends who are causing me to think about things.  If they weren’t around I wonder how much would simply flow past me without realizing how fast time marches on. I was talking with a friend of mine yesterday, and he started talking about what next year [...]

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admin on October 2nd, 2008

Again, while reading Essential Church, I have experienced a gelling of ideas from several other places about mission and vision statements for a church.  This passage jumped out at me, speaking about why young adults leave the church in droves between the ages of 16-20: Their parents assumed that the teachings of the church would [...]

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admin on September 4th, 2008

Leading up to the big Awana meetin’ tonight, I was burning some cel phone minutes last night letting all my people know about the location and time of the meeting.  I wound up talking to the father of one of my leaders.  We both have been handed quite substantial responsibilites this fall, and are both [...]

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