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15 Jan 2011

The Rest of January

The rest of this month is going to be pretty busy as we prepare for our official launch/”Grand Opening” of The Bridge and spend time serving our community. We will be hosting preview services, topping-off washer fluid for motorists at local gas stations, hosting a blanket giveaway, and, of course, launching! In between we’ll be canvassing neighborhoods, inviting friends and neighbors, sending out postcards, and doing whatever else we can to get the word out to the community. We have seen the Holy Spirit go before us in amazing ways, and in the next post, I’ll share some of the highlights of how he’s shown us his favor (it’s probably going to leave you speechless). In the meantime, we are asking you to keep the following events as points of serious prayer throughout the month: Saturday, January 15 — Washer Fluid Top-Off (Exxon @ 7409 Saltsburg Rd, Penn Hills — click for map) from 10 am – 1 pm Sunday, January (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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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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