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.)
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Update
Status Update
We have afternoon showers like we did at good ol' BPC here. They're short but using occur mid-afternoon which makes traffic horrible to drive in, especially on the roads near us. There is always some traffic on Causeway and Veterans. Check out the section below!
Rachel and I are pretty settled in at this point. Some boxes still need to be unpacked, but a lot of other things that needed to fall into place when we got here have, and God has blessed us more than we can imagine! In the past ten days (since our arrival), Rachel has found 2 temporary places to work at while trying to find a full-time job and has two interviews at the school on Monday! As for me, well, God has truly been amazing! I got accepted to the school, went through an all day orientation, registered for classes, interviewed for a part-time job less than five minutes from where I work, and was hired on the spot! Not to mention that we have had so much help from our friend Don McClelon and his whole family moving into our apartment. Financial Aid is actually friendly and helpful here.
Thank you so much for all of you who have prayed for us. Your prayers have definitely been heard! Tell anyone you know that God will take care of those who step out on faith in order to follow His will.
Classes I’m taking: Systematic Theology 1, Baptist Heritage, History of Christianity in America, Encountering the Biblical World, Spiritual Formations 1, and The Cooperative Program. Classes start Monday!
We have afternoon showers like we did at good ol' BPC here. They're short but using occur mid-afternoon which makes traffic horrible to drive in, especially on the roads near us. There is always some traffic on Causeway and Veterans. Check out the section below!
Rachel and I are pretty settled in at this point. Some boxes still need to be unpacked, but a lot of other things that needed to fall into place when we got here have, and God has blessed us more than we can imagine! In the past ten days (since our arrival), Rachel has found 2 temporary places to work at while trying to find a full-time job and has two interviews at the school on Monday! As for me, well, God has truly been amazing! I got accepted to the school, went through an all day orientation, registered for classes, interviewed for a part-time job less than five minutes from where I work, and was hired on the spot! Not to mention that we have had so much help from our friend Don McClelon and his whole family moving into our apartment. Financial Aid is actually friendly and helpful here.
Thank you so much for all of you who have prayed for us. Your prayers have definitely been heard! Tell anyone you know that God will take care of those who step out on faith in order to follow His will.
Classes I’m taking: Systematic Theology 1, Baptist Heritage, History of Christianity in America, Encountering the Biblical World, Spiritual Formations 1, and The Cooperative Program. Classes start Monday!
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