Great Insight

I am always looking to find others who have been down the road a little further than I have… especially when it comes to serving our NW community and the city at Buffalo at large.  I was perusing through some blogs and tweets and came across a great CCDA participant down in New Orleans called Desire Street Ministries. They have been serving the Upper Ninth Ward for many years and was hit really hard when Katrina moved...

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It’s a White Out…

In my office right now… looking out my window it’s pretty much a white-out.  For my florida friends that’s not sand in your eyes at the beach…  nothing like spending an hour blowing snow off the sidewalks then go back outside 15 minutes later and see that the wind blew all the snow back on the sidewalk… *(#)@^! Had a cool time hanging with some community advocates last night at the NW Community...

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What Are We Working For?

I have at times referenced the small but powerful readings of C.H. Spurgeon. I gave my dad a nice leather-bound copy a while back… yesterday he called leaving me a message wondering if I had read the evening section because it was pretty powerful. I had left my copy at the office so i am at the office this afternoon and I just read it and I thought it was so powerful that we all could take a minute or two to read it and then...

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Planning for SUMMER!

Wow today is sunny warm (36 degrees) Buffalo winter day!! We had our first preliminary meeting yesterday with Ron and Sue at Victory Assembly for Riverside Family FunDay! Planning for summer is a fun process in when you live in Buffalo and its only January… especially when you get to see the sun. My hope and pray for us as a leadership team at renovation is for us this year to deepen the relationships we have established in our...

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Monday Night Rewind

Once again it is the beginning of a new week which is always (usually) exciting.  We had a great time in our staff meeting this morning! We meet every monday morning at 9.30… we spend a good amount of time looking back over the last week and telling each other stories that we have heard or seen that exemplify our mission or strategy… we call them “wins” Wins can come in little or big ways but every win...

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