Sherri and I met an amazing couple in Denver at the Church Planting Training seminar we attended last week. This young man, Eldon, is 82 years old and is responding to the call of God to plant a church with his wife. I won’t go into the details, but I did want to express what an encouragement [...]
Archive for September, 2007
I found this picture of our city on the web. It is in some ways a picture of our vision for St. Louis. As cheesy as it may sound, our desire is to see the light of the glory of God through the presence of the Spirit and people of God to rise in the [...]
Sherri and I are excited to announce that Grace Assembly of God in the Indianapolis metro area has signed on as the first official member of our Support Team. Pastor Wayne Murray connected with us today to inform us of their financial and prayer commitment in support of the church plant in St. Louis. Wayne [...]
Sherri and I have officially received our appointment with the U.S. Missions department of the Assemblies of God. We have just finished a week of training and orientation in Springfield, Missouri. Our next challenge will be to build our Support Team. It is the policy of the U.S. Missions department that we do not relocate [...]
I have to confess that I was not looking forward to the support raising part of our journey. However, I am meeting some very amazing and strong individuals through my phone calls to the various churches around the country. For example, at the prompting of Pastor Jay Bailey of Midland, Georgia, I contacted Pastor Shel [...]