Divorce Care

We are attempting to launch a new experience for those who have or are experiencing the heartache of divorce… Divorce Care … This is a nationally run program that has been a real blessing to many folks at The Chapel over the years. The leadership asked us this summer if we would like for them to come to Renovation this fall and launch this ministry. We prayed about the opportunity and felt it would be a real benefit to our...

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Labor Day Weekend #3

This is my third Labor Day weekend as a church planter… who woulda thunk it?   Not me…  10 years ago I was in Dade CIty Florida trying to figure out how to be a youth pastor/worship leader (yikes)/husband/dad (2 kids…dbl yikes) if you would have told me then where we would be in just 10 years I would have told you to stop smokin whatever it was you was smokin… 10 years of following the “Wild...

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Gotta Love It!

What a week we have had around Western NY… you gotta love it since we are coming out of the the coolest/rainiest summers in 25 years! We had a camp fire on the patio last night while we enjoyed some campfire snacks… hobo pies, banana boat’s, smores… good times! We have been busy around Renovation this week. We had our calender meeting this week that kicks us out to next summer… while we are trying to get...

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This is It!

What a stretch of nice weather we are having right now… don’t you love it?! I know I am digging it! Had a great time with our small group tonight. We have been meeting since the summer of 07… we put this group together from our early Elmwood days. We didn’t really know each other and it is always a time of transition when a group of people come together and begin to know each other… hear the journey that...

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