Living a life that isn't my own…

Posts Tagged ‘Pittsburgh’

FunDay Follow-Up

We had a great day yesterday at The Bridge’s (free!) Family Fun Day.  We had a steady stream of attendance (an average of just over 100 people an hour from the community) and over 120 volunteers from our own launch team and other District churches who helped make the day (more…)

Read more

Pre-Fun Day PrayerNote

I sent a PrayerNote to our committed prayer partners earlier this morning asking them to take time to pray for our Family Fun Day tomorrow; I’m posting it here in hopes that as you read it, you would also pray for us and the event.  Things for tomorrow are shaping (more…)

Read more

That way!

As Sarah and I seek clarity on the ‘where’ of our next ministry endeavor (planting The Bridge’s first daughter church in Pittsburgh), the cry of our spirits to God’s has been, “Show us where you are moving and how to join you there.” A few years ago, in zeal and (more…)

Read more

Week-in-Review

Everyone with experience (who also feels the need to give free advice) has told me how much hard work church planting is. It’s true: long hours, late nights, big meetings, laboring in prayer, making connections, planning, designing, preparing, negotiating… it really is tons of work (and our senior pastor at (more…)

Read more

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, (more…)

Read more

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 (more…)

Read more

Myths

You did it today.  So did I.  At least once.  Probably without realizing it, we made an assumption about someone’s job–how easy or hard or menial or vital that job was; how untrained or overworked or under-appreciated or uncaring the person at the tollbooth, behind the counter, at the other (more…)

Read more

What’s In a Name?

It’s been far too long since Joy in the Journey has had an update.  A good friend of mine, Stevan Sheets, expressed frustration about ministries that don’t let some light in on the process they’re using/journey they’re on.  So, for Stevan, I’m going to do a better job at updating (more…)

Read more

What's In a Name?

It’s been far too long since Joy in the Journey has had an update.  A good friend of mine, Stevan Sheets, expressed frustration about ministries that don’t let some light in on the process they’re using/journey they’re on.  So, for Stevan, I’m going to do a better job at updating (more…)

Read more

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, (more…)

Read more
Page 2 of 2«12

You really should check these out:

Drop Box
Clover