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It was 2003. Kelly and I had just moved to CA and we we’re inticed by many to “buy now!”… a home, that is. The government had low interest rates, banks were ready to make loans and first time home owners were given extra incentives. We were tempted with the promise that the housing market [...]

It was about 11:50 yesterday and we were on our way home from our semi-weekly trip to Costco. Just a regular day, nothing special. We get on the new interstate/bypass in Greensboro and attempt merging onto Bryan Blvd. Road Closed. What? Next thing I am diverted onto Bryan Blvd… in the opposite direction. “Why are [...]

Our three year old genius, Chloe, has been in home school for 2 weeks now.
 
Of course we were at first skeptics. We enrolled her in a home school program that teaches K4 students how to write in cursive, instead of manuscript. Again, at first we thought it would be well over her head, but we [...]

Tomorrow I have the opportunity to teach on the names of God in Psalm 23 at Guilford College (www.guilford.edu). It is a little gathering of college students at Guilford College… these students have been gathering and studying Psalms. The head of the spiritual life community at the school asked me to teach something. I personally can’t [...]

We have had a long week since last week’s launch/grand opening of encounter. It is a good thing! It accounts for my utter lack of blogging.
 
We met with different familes every day this week… people interested in encounter. One girl (I may one day write just about her)… she came last week for the first time. And [...]

I am especially excited to write this post… a long time coming. Sunday we launched Encounter and we had about 80 in attendance (just a tad bit more than our last service). But, the most important thing was that the Lord was there, His Spirit and Presence. We literally encountered the presence of God. Our [...]

I have in the last three months had people share their thoughts with me about Encounter… some bad, but mostly all good. I recently read this excerpt from a blog of a great guy who is on our team… a guy I am personally very thankful for (his enthusiasm and love for Jesus). I thought I would share [...]

I am so excited to be in our last days before Encounter comes alive with it’s grand opening.
 
We are doing one big email promo with the halp of John at Inbox promotions. I saw the rough draft of the promo piece and it looks really great. Inbox Promos sends out up to 300,000 emails within [...]

We pray for our kids… have since they were infants. As a habit, everyday, I go to their rooms when they are in bed and lay my hands on their heads and pray over them. I then bless them in Jesus’ name. Kelly then goes in and allows them to pray whatever is on their hearts. She does not “lead” [...]

Ministry has rarely been so sweet!
 
We had the opportunity to deliver dozens of hot, fresh, wonderful, yet bad-for-you donuts. Our team delivered them to Greensboro’s finest fireman and police. We thanked them for helping serve and protect here in Greensboro and making it such a great place to live… we did it all in the name of [...]