Dog Days Are Here!
Dog days are here… at least for the Cockrell clan. We now have a dog…Cocoa!
Should be interesting…
Had a couple of great meetings today.
Of course we had a great time hosting the awesome staff from Crosspoint yesterday along with some local friends like Pastor Alberto Lanzot, Ron and Sue Thorington, Diann and some of the staff at Peace… Bill Buyers and the Mayors Impact Team. Renovation’s story is the extended story of Crosspoint and we know that God has used the generous folks at CP to further The Mission at Renovation.
This morning I spent about an hour talking with Stuart Hall. Stuart has been a long time friend from my Mobile days. He played at ball at the University of Mobile where I later was an assistant coach. Stuart has been in student ministry and has co-authored two books with Andy Stanley. Stuart started DASH Student Ministries who we have partnered with but now has joined the reThink Group.
Stuart will be coming to Renovation the last weekend of May. We are partnering with two other churches in NW Buffalo… Victory Assembly and True Remnant Church to create an environment and experience for our MS/HS students called The Walk. The Walk is designed to help our students take the next best step in their walk with Christ and with others!
Stuart is one of the best communicators I have ever heard and will speak both to our students at The Walk but also at Renovation the next morning!
We are also asking Stuart to help us Saturday morning at our reTHINK Tank. This will be our first attempt to bring together as churches our adult leadership for student’s. We are asking Stuart to help us strategize together how me might best come together and have maximum impact in the lives of students over the course of their MS and HS years.
Both of these events will be free. More info in the coming days!
We also met with Jeff Hacket from Score International. Jeff is helping us plan and strategize for our next missions trip to Costa Rica. More details to come!
Had our follow up meeting for the National Day of Prayer Committee this afternoon. We were all encouraged about what happened last week with the Prayer in the Square and the prayer initiative at UB! Already thinking and praying for next year’s event and how we can raise a new standard for the Church at Buffalo as regarding our dependency and need for pray!
