Time to Celebrate!
Next week is going to be a time to celebrate! Got a chance to here a great discussion this evening down at Hamburg Wesleyan concerning the election of Barack Obama. Pastor Jeff Carter facilitated the discussion with mostly a panel of staff members from his church Ephesus Ministries. Here are a few comments that I thought we enlightening: Teachers can honestly tell children of color that if they study and work hard that they can be the...
Just Another “Ordinary” Day
Had a great start to our new series Wild Goose Chase… 6 folks came down after our Worship Gathering to tell me that they had prayed to ask Jesus to take over their life to be their new Leader and Lord… now that is what I call an”ordinary” day at Renovation! We had one sweet lady who lives in Jasper Parish who committed her life to Christ, another lady who lives by the church who has been at several different...
Many Hands…
Wow we got a lot done in a short amount of time today… many hands make light work! We had quit a few workers show up today… middle schoolers, high schoolers, young kids, “OLD kids,” those from the St Florian block club, City Mission… we picked up trash all up and down our neighborhood, we filled 300 Easter Bags that were hand decorated by our Renovation Students over the last couple of weeks to hand...
Better Catch Up
I had better catch up on this week before it is gone! Some of you know that both my dad/mom are from Oklahoma so I grew a Sooner fan… Better luck next year! If we were going to lose at least it was to a guy like Tim Tebow! (great story) So sad to hear about the young 12 yr old girl who died at a basketball practice this week. Caleb was asking me about it and wanted to know if that is just random for kids to die like...
What Would You Do?
Have you seen this show? It is both great and extremely uncomfortable at the same time. Showing how human behavior, thought, responses… are all connected and how really ugly we can be and at times how beautiful we can be. The week is flying bye… Sunday night I went down to one of our partner ministries Buffalo City Mission. Don Santucci has been going down on the first Sunday of the month to conduct that nights...