Archive for May, 2008
The first opportunity comes from Third Church in Pella. Below is a mass e-mail I recieved from them. The second opportunity comes from Samaritan’s Purse. Please let me know if you would like more information on you can help. As I stated in the email I sent to you earlier today, several members of our church family [ READ MORE ]
Mr. Toby worked his way into my office sporting some clothes that I cannot approve of! Great grandma (most likely under the influence of uncle chuck) gave him some Yankee gear. So what was my response? I went up stairs and changed Lydia. That’s right – my little lady is little miss Twinkie Fan! It [ READ MORE ]
Instead of having a bulletin for our summer series Acting School we have decided to make a playbill. Even though the idea was being kicked around over a month ago it wasn’t until a couple days ago that I started to lay it out. The content which includes cast, timeline, key terms, setting, about the author, [ READ MORE ]
Random recap of a Thursday to Thursday: Thursday 4:00am (central time) woke up in Washington DC – could get back to sleep 8:00am arrived at Whiteboard 12:00pm enjoyed some Big Bowl for lunch 4:30pm left for the airport 7:00pm plane delayed 10:30pm arrive in Chicago to find plane delayed again 12:50am got into my car 2:25am got into my driveway 2:30am got into bed (I’m not a [ READ MORE ]
You didn’t have to live in Iowa to hear about the F5 Tornado (F5’s have wind speeds of 260-300 mph winds) that came through Iowa the other night. Yahoo had it as its lead storyon Monday. Two members of thebridge went with a close friend of ours who is from Parkersburg to help with the clean up. [ READ MORE ]
Jenny spent a couple hours sorting through all of our pictures and video’s on my computer. Something about having 34 different folders randomly located all over with each holding an additional number of folders wasn’t organized enough for her. One of the videos that once was lost but now is found is below. This was [ READ MORE ]
In preparation for the upcoming series “Acting School” a series on the first half of the book of Acts I chose to read C. Peter Wagner’s “Spreading the Fire” which is book one in a three part series. There were a couple of reasons that I was drawn to this book. First it was recommended [ READ MORE ]
I have been blessed with the ability to have significant training from conferences, conversations, and books on church planting. One of the things that almost all of these will bring up as important in planting is your own unique context. Below are just five of the things that make the context of Ottumwa different then [ READ MORE ]
We are sending a mailing out to everyone who has ever attended thebridge. Below is a preview of the front side. The mailing is a promotion for our summer series “Acting School” which will be on the first half of the book of Acts. I’m super excited and challenged by this series and will share [ READ MORE ]
The White Board Conference was awesome! If you want a report on what each speaker’s one idea was I’d suggest going to Perry Nobles Blog (here). Here are a few thoughts and personal take aways. Where I was most challenged – Vince Antonucci gave a fishing illustration that messed with me all day. As a church [ READ MORE ]