A Good Week
Boy, does it help to have a good week now and then.
Continue Reading Add comment May 9th, 2007
Posts filed under 'Church Planting'
Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath day , and keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work. But the seventh day is a sabbath to the LORD your God; you shall not do any work - you, your son or your daughter, your male or female slave, your livestock, or the alien resident in your towns. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth , the sea, and all that is in them, but rested the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and consecrated it. (NRSV)
Continue Reading Add comment February 27th, 2007
Burnout
I am tired. Can you relate?
I am maybe even past tired. I am trying to plant a new church in a community that I had never seen before I moved here a year ago today. To support my “new church habit” I am working a number of other jobs. They all make sense to do - and fortunately they all support each other and overlap quite a bit - but it is hard to keep so many balls in the air all the time.
Continue Reading Add comment February 13th, 2007
Context
It is so very important to understand the cultural context where you are doing ministry. Especially when you are planting a new church.
Yesterday I had breakfast with two young men (Eric and Kent) who are volunteering their time and talents with Table of Grace this month. It was their first day in town and we were talking about Elk Grove and the ministry we are doing here.
Elk Grove is the fastest growing community in the country. It is a fairly affluent suburb of Sacramento. It is very racially diverse but there is very little economic diversity. There is construction everywhere. Anything built before 1990 looks old because everything else is just so shiny and new.
Continue Reading Add comment February 13th, 2007
The Roller Coaster
At Church Planter training I was taught the following cheer:
“Church planting is like a roller coaster. The highs are really high. The lows are really low. There is a whole lot of screaming going on. And at the end you are just glad you didn’t hurl.”
In the field, I am remembering that on a roller coaster the biggest lows follow the biggest highs.
Continue Reading Add comment February 13th, 2007
Church Planting
I will be back to say a whole lot more about the journey of church planting. If you have thoughts in the meantime, please add them!
Add comment August 25th, 2006
