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10 May 2011

JourneyNote: Transition

This past Sunday, The Bridge‘s lead pastor, Rick Cox, shared about a coming transition within our new church; last week, Sarah and I shared the following note with a few of you about this same transition and now we’re sharing it with anyone interested: At the end of this month, Sarah and I will complete our time of service with The Bridge. We are celebrating the great things God has done which he has graciously allowed us to be part of, including our continued partnership with the Coxes. As of right now, though, we have no clear direction of ‘next’ for us and are diligently seeking God. We know we love the people here and God has given us a deep, passionate love for the city but we are also aware that though we try to set our path, God determines our steps. That said, we would be honored if you would make our next step and our need (more…)

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14 Aug 2010

August JourneyNote, the Final Installment!

A few days ago, we shared with you jus a few of the ways we have seen that the Holy Spirit is undeniably at work in Pittsburgh (I still can’t believe we get to be part of what he’s doing here!). We also shared our very real need for individuals, groups, and churches to support us as missionaries here. Yesterday we sent out a few ways you can help make sure we’re funded, and we genuinely thank you for prayerfully considering how God might use you to help us live and minister in Pittsburgh. We are committed to the work we’re doing in Pittsburgh, and I am in the process of finding outside employment. That’s where this final installment of the “Help Jeremiah and Sarah with Funding” JourneyNote miniseries comes in: With church planting is my primary vocation, a ‘second job’ in order to make ends meet needs to be one of a much more flexible nature than traditional employment. (more…)

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12 Aug 2010

August JourneyNote, Part 2

Good evening, fellow Sojourners! Yesterday, we sent out a brief update about some of the exciting things happening with The Bridge; we also shared our need for financial support. As promised, here are a few of the ways you can help: Pray for God’s continued and unique provision; ask him to stir the hearts of donors and to create income opportunities for us. We know God alone is our provider and has proven himself more than faithful time after time. The way he provides often surprises us, and we’re thankful for the ‘willing vessels’ he is already using. Please also pray that we would have eyes that see the opportunities which come our way and the courage to jump into them! If you have committed to give but have not yet followed-through on that commitment as an individual, group, or church, please do so now; if you will be unable to fulfill what was promised, please let us know. Many (more…)

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11 Aug 2010

In a year, everything can change…

… If you’re looking for proof, just look at the post Sarah penned here. We continue to see God do amazing things like connecting us with community members through a recent volleyball clinic, allowing significant relationships to be built, hosting our first service in the Penn Hills library, and incredible ministry opportunities with Indian & Nepali refugees. We find our passion growing for the development of a network of church-planting churches which are loving, learning, and living Jesus. The reality of a second church plant scheduled to take root in June of next year is beginning to settle in and the excitement of preview services beginning next month is almost overwhelming. We continue to pray for twenty people to come to know Jesus as a result of our ministry this summer. Simply stated, we have been floored by the faithfulness of our God and King as he leads us. If I had space here, I would write in detail (more…)

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24 Jun 2010

Prayer/JourneyNote

The cat is out of the bag. While I’m not sure just where that expression came from (or why we take it to mean a secret is not-so-secret anymore), we have some news to share. At our District Conference last monday, our District Superintendent shared The Bridge’s plan to daughter a new church in June of next year. Sarah and I will be the lead planters in what we’re affectionately, for now, calling ‘Bridge 2.0’ and are excited about that next move. This is definitely a big step, but it’s part of an even bigger dream of developing an urban church planting and training center from which church planting teams are prepared and sent throughout the region, nation, and globe. It’s an impossible vision that will take the activity of God’s own Spirit to accomplish–and that excites us to no end! For now, we ask you to pray for us as we identify the people and place where the next (more…)

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13 Dec 2009

JourneyNote #3

55.5 Square Miles Within an area of 55.5 square miles, not very far from where I write these words, is a community which is home to fortune 500 companies, seats of commerce, houses of industry and institutions of innovation and education. Within those 55.5 square miles, hundreds of thousands work, live, and build relationships. Millions more live just outside the area. The community found within that tract of land is known for an uncanny ability to reinvent itself; so resilient are these people that the recent G-20 Summit was hosted there to showcase one city’s ability to not only weather but grow stronger through economic crises and global storms. Within those 55.5 square miles, you will find incredible fusions of old and new, stayed and untried. You will also find 455 bridges, 712 public stairways, 8 tunnels, 90 distinctive neighborhoods, and 140 separately identifiable ethnic groups. But you won’t find a single Wesleyan Church. In fact, you won’t find a (more…)

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07 Nov 2009

JourneyNote

A couple of months ago, my wife sent the following JourneyNote to many of our friends and family. It’s a bit of a personal update I thought you might enjoy. The second Note was sent out yesterday; but here’s the first one for your perusal: To our family and friends: Yes, you. If you are receiving this note, than you can be sure that we consider you family or friend (or both!!). As many of you already know and some may have heard through different grapevines, life has taken some twists and turns in the last six months or so for Jeremiah and me. Our time of pastoring at Carlisle Wesleyan came to an end in mid-June, and since then we have been trying to decipher the ‘next steps’ that God has prepared for us to do. God has been proving himself to be our provider as we began the difficult transformation into realizing that we couldn’t do it for (more…)

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