just a quick bog post a quick press. hope everyone has an amazing 4th of july week-end. our family is off to a good start of the week-end a super saturday filled with honey do’s and trips to the store. we will eat some home made pasta so the runners can card up. and than home made short cake and starwberries for our buddy Joe Sroka
on the 4th, sunday all the family but ariah and I will run the peachtree roadrace and than 1027church has picnic in john howell park 2 p.m. everybody bringing a covered dish – pot-luck . than our family will watch fire works at the ansley golf club.
be safe out there and have fun.
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okay, atlanta is not chicago, new york, or other cold city places. but it is snowing (don’t laugh so loud all you northern people) and people are flocking to my office starbucks for something good and warm. there is no room to sit down anywhere and people are not only standing in line for coffee but a place to park themselves in a chair.
so i was sitting at a table with three chairs. one for me, one for my computer sling pack, jacket, gloves and hat and one chair for the different people I meet with. so with it being packed you of course give up an empty chair, and you also move your stuff out of the empty ghost chair. but than you allow someone to sit at the same big table as you and work on their computer like you are working on your computer.
so what’s next do you talk to the person? do introduce yourself? do try to carry on a conversation? why do you even have to ask those questions, the answers are yes, yes, and yes. why because people matter to God! and they should matter to me. so i have a new friend on a snowy day @ starbucks.
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so today is friday and christmas is next week. i’m sitting today in starbucks getting some work done for 1027church and the urban atlanta impact initiative. my wife has been texting me about wanting to finish up some shopping tonight. tonight we also will sit down with our family and talk about what God God has spoken into our hearts about giving to “the gift.”
“the gift” is this amazing way 1027church encourages people to stay focused on christmas being all about Jesus and being a giver. “the gift” is a one time offering every year at christmas that goes to international missions, national missions, this year blood water who does clean water and medical work in africa through the local church and then some of the gift goes to church planting. at 1027church we are a church plant and believe in church planting.
so im praying that “the gift” this year will be amazing and i know God will use it to change the world. i’m also vvery excited that on sunday through an art auction 1027church will be giving a gift to project rawanda which provide (2) coffee bikes which we are working with land of thousand hills coffee. 1027church is a giving church. and as we race into new year we will continue to give and sacrifice with our partnership with atlanta community food bank.
merry christmas Jesus and merry christmas world
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okay, it was sunday and where getting readyfor monday morning. monday moring mid morning after some projects and work related stuff we went over to the North American Mission Board for some interviews to possibly become church planting missionaries.
the inteview went monday 12 pm through wednesday 1:30 pm. we meet some new amazing new friends and reconnected with old friends. i think that God is oding some great stuff through the North American Mission Board and the amazing missionary team.
while we where out of pockett our middle son asa left for his three day 8th grade georgia trip. pam and i got back into midtown in time for pam to go towork at halmark and me to coach the morningside nighhawks baseball team. then right community group where have the priveldege to share life for some amazing people since january.
thursday i got to go to an important lunch meeting with dr. david meacham who leads the church planting team at North American Mission Board and my felow team members of the Urban Atlanta Impact Team.
friday was an amazing day of little of everything but a great lunch where i meet a friend and had the opportunity to share the gospel with my firned he has invited Christ into his life so that was exciting.
saturday little league baseball and sunday worshipping together in the city.
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this week has been very difficult week for me personally. not sure why? i started the week meeting some new amazing friends dhati and john who are coming to atlanta to plant a church that will reporduce others.
there has been the typical busy stuff at home but at our house it seems we are always wide open with (2) teen-agers. by the way they both be at grady high school next year freshman and junior . . . wow i’m getting old not pam though.
but in the midst of this week where the challenage has probably been little or no margin, howard hooked me and thomas up with a moonpie and a coke and about 10 minutes of conversation. man was that good for my soul. well maybe i do not need the moonpie and i need to drink more water. but the kindness was awesome and spending time w/ howard and fred at the clairmont hills baptist church priceless. not to mention they helped a church planter out with some storage space again priceless.
then to wrap up our time together the power of prayer – fantastic.
well today is thursday and lots today not to mention spend some time praying.
thanks howard for the moonpie and thanks fred for always being a friend.
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took my two boys up to the woddward indoor skate park today. it’s hard to believe we do not have an indoor skate place in the city. but we so much it’s okay. while they were getting there skate on i got some time to read a new little book by n.t. wright – christians at the cross. it is a great book.
but back to skating, asa and seth are good, okay(that’s a dad’s opinion.) they skated for three hours it always looks like a great work-out. plus they have alot of fun.
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man today the time change has me wipped out. it amazing that it can effect your body so much. i think of so many times i have probably wiasted an hour yet moving the clock ahead an hour has drainned me today.
one of my friends came up tome today @ church and even reminded me everyone must have been tired today!
going to bed!
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I’m thinking about prayer today. what it means to my neighbors, friends, and people in the coffee shop in my city? when I use the word prayer in a sentence what arepeople thinking about? or the famous I’ll be praying for you or our prayers are with you?
prayer to me seems like such an important part fo following Jesus Christ. there seems to be times in my life where I would say my prayer life is tracking out aok. other times it seems my prayer life has gotten lazy and needs a jump start.
overall I think prayer is so much about the relatiosnhp I have with God. And usually makes me so much more aware of Him and all his desires than getting something I think I need or having a problem get fixed.
not to mention what prayer is all about a form of worship.
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i think the super was outstanding. and i like the giants and was hopeful they could make a game and they did. way to go giants.
the adds where awful and seemed very crued. man i feel old even typing that sentence.
my son asa who is a patriots fan was not happy last night and said the pats will be back next year.
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1027church is headng to the annual winter retreat in cleveland, ga. the woodlands has taken such great care of us over the past two years and after this week-end it will be year three.
marvin dorsey is teaching friday night and it will be good and one of our amazing leaders and elder malcolm foss is teaching saturday night. we will spend some time resting and hiking in the mountains.
then we come back to the city for some super bowl . . . go giants!
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