Outreach to Zimbabwe

April 28, 2009

We are hitting the road to Zimbabwe this saturday! This is a blog post to give you a little info on what we will be up to there. 

Church Planting Experience (CPx) is the name of the the training that we have been in for the last 3 months. The first 3 months has been the [...]

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Meet the Team

April 23, 2009

We were placed on an awesome team for CPx, and we would like to introduce them to you. These are the folks that we have spent the last 3 months with and will spend the next 2 months in Zimbabwe with.
Munyaradzi means “comforter” and that could not be any more accurate of what Munya is [...]

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New Prayer Request Widget

April 23, 2009

Quite a few people ask us to share our prayer requests with them through the blog. So in our ordinary high tech style we have created a prayer request widget that we will update regularly from our cell phones with prayer requests. We are using Twitter to keep it updated from our phones. Go here [...]

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What is a Church Planting Movement?

April 5, 2009

There are a few terms that we use that I would like to give more definition too. The first one we would like to tackle is “Church Planting Movement”. Other words that I hope to define better in the future is “Simple Church”, “Organic Leadership” “Missional Communities” and “Making Disciples” so stay tuned!

A rapid [...]

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How Did We End Up In Africa?

February 15, 2009

One year ago, Nichole and I were discussing where we would like to live in the United States. Most of our decisions were based on comfort, recreation and what we like to call the “cookie cutter” lifestyle. We never felt peace about any place that we discussed. One evening at church we heard stories of [...]

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Video Report from Cape Town

February 15, 2009

All is well! When you have a few minutes, watch this video. Make sure you watch long enough to see the fun bonus footage showing you around Cape Town and where we are living. If you feel I am getting too long winded in the beginning skip to 4:35 to see the bonus footage.

We [...]

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Hiking Lions Head

February 12, 2009

Here are pictures from a hike with our team to Lions Head. Lions Head is a huge mountain that overlooks the whole city of Cape Town, South Africa. It was absolutely beautiful, there are some AWESOME views of table mountain. What was even more beautiful was this group of over fifty people that have come [...]

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We Have Arrived! First Impressions of the Southern Hemisphere

January 30, 2009

We woke up this morning looking out to Table Mountain (see video on this post). It was beautiful… We are staying with Stephen & Robin Murray, a couple that we met through church. They are very kind and hospitable. We will be staying with them for a week before joining up with All Nations in [...]

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Flying to South Africa; Our Trip to Opposite Side of the Planet

January 30, 2009

37 hours of travel time. We went from Louisville to Chicago to Washington D.C. to Johannesburg to Cape Town. The flight across the atlantic was 15 hours long. Turns out that we are almost on the exact opposite side of the planet from where we were in the Northwest

Comfortable Flights with a View
The flights were [...]

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7 Days To Go, Car Sold, Financial Report and Going Away Party

January 21, 2009

Here we are. Exactly one week away from leaving. Needless to say we are excited. It has been an fabulous 2 months of seeing family and friends. With moments of awesome fellowship mixed with moments of grrrrrr lets get there already.
God Shows Up
We are daily reminded of how big, good and faithful God is. Everything [...]

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