THIS TRAIN IS A MOVIN ALONG!

It has been awhile since our last post or as they say in today’s vernacular, “it has been a hot minute since our last post!” That does not mean however, that things have not been steaming along! Here are a few outstanding things that have come to pass in the last week or so:

Track #1 – Our home church – Forefront Church in Va. Beach, VA (http://www.forefront.org/) finished up a series called “World Changers” on 7 Sep 08. On that date, our pastor called Mike and Nicole DeSelm and Karen and I up on stage, and introduced us in public for the first time as future homegrown church planters and World Changers from the congregation of Forefront! It afforded us the opportunity to share a little bit of the vision and to ask for prayer, support, and a call to anyone in the audience to pray about going with us! Pretty cool stuff and the response to our announcement was Great!

Track #2 – We received a call from a church in Philadelphia, PA who was at one time a portable church, but now in a building of their own. Their old portable church equipment is collecting dust and they are offering it to us for free and shipping it for free too! That is my favorite four letter word – “FREE”! How cool is that though!

Track #3 – Fundraising is in full swing! We are starting to get more pro-active in the church asking area. This is difficult for us, because many of us do not have the connections many seminary and big church folk have. So.., please keep us in prayer about the fundraising efforts.

Track #4 – We put together a prayer team that is praying everyday of the month each month over the next year! Those of you that have signed up “THANK YOU” so much. We would love to be able do double up and triple up the prayer team! So.., if you're interested in taking a day/date of the month over the next year and pray on that day each month over the next year, we would LOVE for you to join the Team!!

Track #5 – Some cool things have been happening already with people in the Valley! An old friend of mine from about 35 years ago called me out of the blue. I lived in a Catholic Children’s Home when I was a child for approximately 7.5 years. That friend was from the home, and they had a 40 year reunion of the Homey’s. Come to find many of those folks (many of whom were or are broken) are still in the area and I will be meeting with a bunch of them on 27 Sep 08 in Allentown. I told the guy who called me I was moving back and why and he said, “Wow man, I don’t go to church, but I believe in God – I’ll help ya!” How cool is that. My friend is someone God is already working on and I am not even in the Valley yet!! Wow!

So.., the train is movin – and we are about 120 days out until we leave Virginia Beach! More to follow!