Great Read

I am currently reading Dan Kimball's book They Like Jesus But Not the Church. It is an awesome book and incredibly enlightening when it comes to people's perspectives on the church. It should be required reading for everyone who has an interest in trying to share the message of Jesus with people in today's culture.

I'll be posting more on it in the near future.

Stuff for Prayer

I have been trying to set up a meeting with a potential worship leader for a couple of weeks now. I got an e-mail from him this morning saying he didn't think this was what he was supposed to be doing at this time. Please continue to be in prayer for a worship leader.

I am continuing to try to secure a meeting place. Pray that God would open up a place for us.

I am lining up meetings with area pastors to get their churches involved in supporting The Crossroads, so be in prayer for those meetings.

Please continue to pray for the sale of our house. We have had lots of people look at the house, but no offers so far.

Awesome Weekend

Some really neat things happened this weekend. Sam Douglass, my church planting coach, from Just Coach Me came up and spent the day with me on Friday. We had some God-ordained meetings with a couple of pastors in the area to talk about their churches' involvement in supporting The Crossroads.

One of those churches wants to be involved as our major church sponsor. (Praise God!!!) We are working out the details of that relationship and how they will specifically be involved, but I am so thankful they are going to be working with us. I love their pastor and the heart he has for Jesus, and look forward to furthering our relationship with each other.

The other church is considering how they might be involved, but I think in the end they will also play a significant role in what we are doing.

After we got through visiting with the pastors, I took Sam to The Boiler Room for a couple of raspberry truffle mochas (delicious and not on the diet) and so i could pick his brain about some planting stuff.

Then we hung out at my house. Sam played the piano and I sang. Really!

Our launch team came over at 6:30 for beans and cornbread and some cowboy candy. Mmmm! Good Texas food. Sam spent a couple of hours pumping up the launch team and training them for how to do door-to-door surveys. Sam was definitely on his A-game.

Saturday, we spent some time with friends saying good-bye to an incredible friend.

Sunday, we had some great Mexican food at a friend's house and went to a neat prayer and worship time at Legacy Bible Church.

All in all, an awesome weekend.

Thank God for The Springs

I had lunch yesterday with Joel Halpin, pastor of The Springs Church in Murphy, TX. It was truly a God-ordained meeting. Joel's church is a year old, and yet they are so committed to the vision of church planting that they would like to invest in a significant way in helping plant The Crossroads and other church plants. Thank God for The Springs. Their investment will truly give us an incredible step ahead in our planting The Crossroads.