Seminary is going well. Rachel and I have gotten pretty involved with a new church plant here called Crescent City Rock. We’re really excited about the opportunities there. They currently have two cell groups and we will be helping out with the newest one on Tuesday nights. Rachel will help with the kids and I will be leading the adults every now and then. Please pray for Crescent City Rock (CCR, lol). We are hoping to start preview services soon with our official launch date being Easter, 2010.
In pondering about church planting, I am starting to see church planters as modern day Pauls who start churches in one place, local mature Christians become the leaders of the church, and the Pauls go onto the next city. So, right now, I’m not planning to stay with this church forever, but I’m not the church planter. I’m helping a new church start. Am I a modern day Barnabas? Perhaps that comparison goes even better for Jim’s (church planter) family who move around with him and help out, or even a girl named Trish at the seminary. She was saved at Jim’s church plant in Oregon and is now helping Jim start this church. (Maybe a Timothy? Or was it Titus who was saved through Paul’s missionary journey and then joined up for awhile? Of course, Timothy later became the pastor of the church at Ephesus.)
Rachel is still looking for a full-time job so please pray for her. She has a job interview tomorrow!
To all my GA folks (and in TX), know you are terribly missed! Please let us know how you all are doing by commenting, calling, or emailing us.
(Post entirely written during Encountering the Biblical World, aka Archeology.)
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