can someone tell me why i am waking up to snow when it's almost may? this makes no sense to me... eh... oh well, it'll probably all be gone by noon. ha...so a number of you have asked me to keep you posted on how things are coming with the missional/ministry house... consider this your post (:
ok, so since i've returned from my wonderful trip to chicago... i've been discussing the idea of the house with a co-worker/friend natalie... she's been pretty passionate about this house for the last year and has been wanting to get it started for quite some time now... and as we spoke and dreamed out loud, it seemed very clear that God had put this passion in both our hearts... and so we met with seth (the emerging generation pastor)and the rest of our ministry team at resonate and we thought up a rough game plan... for the first year, we're planning to find a house to rent from... ideally we want 5-6 people in the house, and these people would make up the core group of the house ministry... we'll live together for this first year and begin to practice the lifestyle that we're feeling God call us to and also begin to form and shape the logistics of everyday life within the house... each person living in the house will be asked to not work more than 30 hours a week so that we can have enough time with each other, the neighborhood, and the rest of the resonate crew. the idea would be to start more homes after the first year, and the core group would disperse to these homes to live & lead there.
which left us with two things holding us back from getting started...
1. who is going to live in this first house?
and
2. where is this so called house?!
ha... so yesterday natalie and i went house hunting and i think we found a place that would be perfect... 5 bedrooms, a bathroom, dining room, living room and kitchen... i think... we're gonna go look inside later today... and once we found this place... we both looked at each other and knew that we were going to have to start asking around to see who would be interested in joining us in this house! so i started asking God to send us people that He really wants to be a part of this... and i believe he is doing that right now. a number of people have already expressed interest!
you guys... this is really happening...
God help us.
7 comments:
so cool. [not the snow] the house. sounds radical and challenging and risky and rewarding and who knows what but fo' sho God will help yo.
di-
GREAT description! sounds like the description of having a relationship with God! (:
WAHOOOOOOO!!! can you hear me screeching my excitement all the way from florida?!
danny. this. is. awesome. i love the description of what this house will be, of what it will be about, of what this particular house sounds like for all of you. i can't wait to see pictures! are you going to share pictures? i hope so!!
you, my bro-ham, are the man. go with God, and peace.
i was just over at the house and IT'S MONEY!!! I took pictures so i'm sure danny will be downloading them soon. stay tuned. it's not a done deal but it sure looks like jesus.
chrissy-
AHHHH!!! i hear you sissy!!!! ha... yeah, i'm finding it particularly difficult to withhold the excitement at the moment... we just went and checked the house out and it was perfect. thank you so much for the support!!! I LOVE YOU SISSY!
momma-
how perfect was it?! AHHHHH!!!! yeah, can you get me those pictures? so i can post them?
Yay, yay, YAY! I'm so excited for you guys and for what God is doing in and through you. Wow. Wow. WOW! I love knowing, just KNOWING, that God is working and things will be well.
On another note, could I have some of that snow? Please? It was 95-100 here over the weekend and we're already having fires that might eat peoples' houses and snow would be wonderful.
angiefab-
:) :) :) :)
sarah-
holy crap! 95-100! sounds brutal! yeah, i'd choose snow over that to be honest... most people wouldn't though i think... ha... thank you for your prayers and support! you are wonderful!
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