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08/02/10
This is a difficult blog post to write. Over 4 years ago I started this blog as an online record of our journey to plant a church. They say church planting is a roller coaster ride and that is definitely true. We have experienced many highs and many lows. In 2007, after 9 months we [...]
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05/10/10
The business model of new churches is broken. Paying living wages to staff, renting facilities, buying land and building church facilities can no longer be funded by the offerings of a new church. Even congregations that have been in existence for a long time and own their land and building are finding it increasingly difficult [...]
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04/18/10
Why am I in Orlando this week? It is a great expense to the church and myself personally to attend the Exponential Conference! Over the past four years the Exponential conference has been a place that has encouraged me and helped me learn from the 2000+ other crazy people who have started a church or [...]
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04/13/10
Sean and Faye Whitacre and I are going to the Haiti/Dominican Republic border from June 4th through the 12th on a Vision Trip with Children of the Nations. We will be visiting the area villages COTN serves as well as the Barahona Ministry Center’s Medical/Dental/Surgical Center where they have been working with those injured from the [...]
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04/07/10
Easter Sunday 2010 was a great day!! It started off at 9:30 AM when we launched a new campus at Laurel Parc at Bethany which is a retirement home. We had 15 people join us and say they would invite their friends next week! At 10:00 we had an Easter breakfast at Stoller Middle School [...]
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