October

I think we need a quick recap of October before we jump too deep into the Holiday season.  This October we partnered with a few of our close neighbors and threw a Block Party.  It was awesome!  At the time we thought that it was our neighborhood’s first ever block party but we found out that over 20 years ago our little neighborhood was quite active in doing stuff together.  The few that remembered those parties seemed excited about having regular neighborhood activities again.  Due to weather we had to make a last minute date change but we’re guessing we still had over 60 people stop by.  It was a lot of fun and we feel like some great excitement has been stirred for future community development.

 

The end of October also marked the completion of 4 months at Cedar Ridge Christian Church where I have been doing a Church Plant Residency.  I have had the opportunity to preach once a month and have been learning a lot about leadership and church networking.  Stefanie and I have also become a part of a church planting learning community that we meet with twice a month.  This is a group of like-minded church planter types who are faithfully seeking to develop communities of Christ-followers on everyday gospel mission.

As we look forward we plan to meet once in November with a group of 8-10 adults who have expressed interest in being a part of a new church.  We will follow up with these people a few times in December and the plan is to hit the ground running in January by meeting on a weekly basis.

Prayer Needs:
1. God would bring together a small group that lives out true gospel community
2. Window would be open to sharing the message of Jesus
3. Protection for spiritual attack
4. Spiritual and physical provision

Thanks again for partnering with us. May God be glorified in all that we say and do.