Praying for Sunday

I want to encourage all of us to keep Sunday in our prayers and thoughts throughout the week. Pray that our friends and family will come… Pray that they will have a great experience from the time they step onto the campus till long after they leave… Pray that what we say and do will be genuinely received… Pray that God’s love will be felt by every person big and small… Pray for me and the team as we...

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Sunday Night Rewind

Last Sunday we did a little experiment at Renovation… we had been kickin it around for a few months and so we decided to go for it last week. If a volunteer did it… it didn’t get done. No coffee No snacks No Greeters No Band No Sound Tech No Lights No Video It was just Nick playing his keyboard and me running sound and then he would come back to run the sound as got up to speak. It was pretty funny to watch people...

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An Amazing 24…

It was an amazing 24 hours we had… not so much in the big things but in the little. I am finding that for us doing ministry in the city is about celebrating little steps… little decisions…  Yesterday morning was a tough morning to pull my butt out of bed… rainy/dark/hour lost = sleep more! I hit the snooze button a few times… I usually am pretty excited and fired up to get going on a Sunday...

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Going…Going…

It is always an awesome time to live in Buffalo after many hard weeks of cold, snowy, dark days when the snow begins to leave us. Now this always happens at various times usually a little later in the season then it is happening (not complaining)  now but when it does the whole city starts to come alive or should I say out of hibernation. We have several days of great, sunny weather. It takes a while for the snow to finally melt...

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I Gotta A feeling…

Just got through walking through Renovation Center and i gotta feeling that tonight’s gonna be good, good night! Club 56 (an great experience for boys and girls in the 5th and 6th gr) was going great under the leadership of superstars Toni and Margarita… they get a great hot meal because most of the kids who go have been at homework club  since school and so they are starving… Mr Glenn, Renovation’s super...

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