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Monday, 23 July 2007

moving....

i am moving my blogs to:
http://themissionalcommunity.blogspot.com

Tuesday, 06 March 2007

long time

it has been way too long since i have posted anything here on xanga. it seems as though i have a huge amount of things going on in life, yet not enough time to journal about them. things at gateway are great. we continue to watch people live out the calling in life to be missional. even as i make that statement many of you may be thinking, well what are they doing and where are they going? truth is they are staying and learning to be missional right here in our own culture. having the privilege to sit back and watch God's people come together with a sense of purpose and community has in itself been an amazing time. it seems to bring everything together when you know you are in the place the He has created you to be in. i know that is right where i am in my life today. my constant and consistent prayer is this, God give me your eyes, ears and heart so i can see, hear and love people the way that you do.

Monday, 04 December 2006

great night!

last night at church we had the Lord's supper. it was an amazing time for us as a body of believers and i truly felt like it drew us closer to one another as a community. the worship and reflection time was beautiful and before we started, my son walked into church and noticed the bread and juice and asked if he could have some. natalie responded by saying that we were fixing to participate in the Lord's supper and that it was a time set aside to remember all of the things that Jesus has done for us and that as a church, we believe that only believers should participate in it. all of this led to me sitting down with cade, in the hallway of our church, and him telling natalie and i that he wanted to be a christian, because he did not want to die and live with the devil. what am amazing statement from a nearly 6 year old boy. we began to talk about what it meant to be a christian and he said he understood that we do bad things and we need Jesus to forgive us of those things and that he wanted to be a part of Jesus' family. after making sure he knew and understood all that we were talking about, i asked him if he wanted to pray to Jesus to forgive him of his sins and become a christian and be a part of Jesus' family. in the hallway of our church, cade brown prayed to receive Jesus christ as his Savior on December 3, 2006 at 6:50 p.m. i failed to mention that we were supposed to begin the Lord's supper at 6:30 but the family of gateway erupted in joy and stood and clapped as i shared with them that my little boy had just accepted Christ - although i am certain they knew what was going on and they were praying for us!

Wednesday, 15 November 2006

what a week

please pray for our family and what we are going through and have gone through the last two weeks. last week, we lost uncle billy. uncle billy was natalie's great uncle and a very close part of her life. on thursday of last week, my daughter meaghan, was sent home from school with the chicken poxs. she is back in school now but it was not a fun thing for her. then on monday, we found out that cade has pneumonia and has been at the house for the the past 3 days. we are doing breathing treatments and antibiotics, in hopes that it will clear it up. please pray for rest and protection for our family.

Wednesday, 08 November 2006

dominican republic

i have been working on putting together another trip back to the dominican republic to work in the areas of algadon, barahona, don bosco, and los robles. just a few years ago, we had a great trip and really enjoyed the work that was being done there. i have a meeting the first week of december with the group that i am working with to put together this trip. please pray specifically for this trip and how the Lord wants us to be involved. i have a huge place in my heart for these people and have been praying for an opportunity to go back. i am praying that this is it