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Getting Thank You’s And An Invite From A Public School

February 11th, 2010 · 3 Comments

It’s not why we do it…but it sure does feel awesome.
The volunteer coordinator for the McCarter Elementary PTO stopped by today. Her name is Maria and she had this huge manila folder in her arms. Inside were hundreds of hand written notes on various colors of construction paper saying thank you [...]

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Tags: church & emergent musings · leadership · spiritual formation

25 Hours of Seeing God Work

August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments

Sunday, August 2
9.00 am
I’ve been up at the church for almost an hour now, listening to the worship team practice, smelling the eggs and sausage from the men’s breakfast. I didn’t go to the breakfast this morning. I normally do but today is going to be a long but an awesome day. [...]

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Tags: church & emergent musings · journal of a new lead pastor · spiritual formation

McCarter Beautiful Day

May 11th, 2009 · 2 Comments

It’s taken me awhile to get this on here..but here is how we helped with the school fair at McCarter.

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Tags: church & emergent musings

22 Days Redux

April 23rd, 2009 · 3 Comments

We just spent 22 days of prayer, I took a few days off of the blog as well.
So what next?
Listen.
The Thursday after the 22 Days I was walking my kids to class and one of their teachers grabbed me in a semi-panic. “We need 50 volunteers for next [...]

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Tags: journal of a new lead pastor