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I am sitting in a meeting of pastors and church planters who are serious about planting churches.  This is exciting stuff. Most of the guys here are pastors of churches that are ten years old or less.   Here is one theme that several pastors are talking about and actually modeling: They have  jobs outside [...]

Last week we came to the states for a one year home assignment. We will miss Germany for sure but we are looking forward to our time in the states this year.  I will be doing the same work and travel as I did in Germany but basing out of Knoxville. So I am trying [...]

I do a lot of traveling with my work. I must admit I do not get a lot of sympathy votes from people when I post from many places in Western Europe. I get more like “must be nice” or “you sure have a tough job”. I do have a great job and I never [...]

This week I am at the Velocity 2011 conference put on by ChurchPlanters.com.  We have been at this event the last four years. Here is why! I If had one  “do over” in my church planting ministry career it would be for the new churches that I have been a part of to become globally [...]

I mentioned several weeks back that we are part of a church planting project in a nearby village. There are two aspects of our strategy so far that I really think are valuable that I wanted to share.  I mentioned the first in my previous post where I  wrote about iPOC. I pray I observe [...]

I just came in from my noon time run. I love them. It is one of the great parts of being at home. It is good to take a break in the day. So I love running at noon and I normally eat a lighter lunch which is important for me. When I run by [...]

I am adopted. Some of you may know this about me. I was adopted when I was almost 2 years old though my adoptive parents took care of me much earlier. I am a huge advocate for adoption. I am thankful that my parents chose me and gave me a home.  When I was a [...]