Jun 9th, 2010
Remedy Church… it is time to get your SERVE on! We have two SERVE projects that are launching THIS WEEKEND. Both of these opportunities are phenomenal places to begin DOing your FAITH… //Project 917 B// We have officially adopted townhouse number “917 B” in the Wicomico Housing Authority on Booth Street! We will be remodeling the [...]
Jun 13th, 2009
My friend Jeffrey D Woodard is on a mission to penetrate the darkness that he has seen in Sub-Saharan Africa with the light of love and hope and faith. Jeff is on a mission with a love for the people of Africa. Jeff has personally seen and experienced the injustice of hunger, violence, disease, brokenness, death, [...]
Jun 5th, 2009
I stumbled upon this blog by Jonathan Dodson about living a simplified missional lifestyle at theresurgence.com a couple of days ago. Good stuff. I have been reading Servolution by Dino Rizzo this week (see my blog about about Servolution from a couple of months ago). This blog is right in the same ballpark as Servolution… and [...]
May 11th, 2009
While shopping at Ollie’s a few weeks ago, I stumbled upon a pair of books by Dan Kimball entitled They Like Jesus but Not the Church. I had read a couple of reviews on the book, so when I saw it at Ollie’s for $5.99… I grabbed both copies without hesitation. Why BOTH copies? Because [...]
May 9th, 2009
I stumbled upon these statistics from July of 2006 for church planting in North America from Dave Earley at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary’s Center for Church Planting. Convicting stuff… Check it out… HERE are the STATS (by the way… if you come across any fresh statistics or links to stats for Church Planting, please shoot [...]
Apr 14th, 2009
Life is one big transition. – Willie Stargell, Hall of Fame baseball player and coach Stargell’s quote infers the inevitable and perpetual transitions that are both BIG and SMALL. My life has been filled with much transition. Some have been big… and some have been small. Some have been smooth… and some that were much [...]
Feb 20th, 2009
Just came across this book: Servolution by Dino Rizzo (Pastor of Healing Place Church in Louisiana) that will be releasing in May. Once I knock down this stack of “Books to be Read”… I’ll be picking up this book. Check out this pdf of recommendations for starting a “servolution” in your community. This is a [...]
Feb 14th, 2009
ESPN just sent me this PSA from the White House concerning President Obama’s latest attempt to get people off their couches and into their communities… SERVING. And I must say that I think this is genius. I already visited the site (www.USAservice.org) to sign up for email updates with service opportunities within (or near) my [...]
Jan 23rd, 2009
My message this weekend for our AM/SM Junior High and High Skool services is centering on the topic of serving God and serving others. Over the past couple of semesters, I have spent much energy attempting to communicate and convey what the Lord has been teaching me about missional living… and loving my neighbors. There [...]
Jan 20th, 2009
It’s no secret to those closest to me that I voted for George W. Bush two times (2000 and 2004)… and then for Barack Obama in 2008. And I am not alone among my generation. There is a great HOPE for our future… but not because of any singular individual… but because it is time [...]