transforming families and communities through christ-centred relationships
Missed a Sunday Service? No worries. We now have video footage of our sermons posted up online on our new media player. Pretty soon, you will be able to subscribe to these sermons as a podcast and download them onto your iPhone, iPod or other media device. For now though, you can click through and… [Continue Reading]
Big news. I’m going to be changing a whole bunch of posts on the site to reflect this, but here’s the breaking news. We’re delaying the launch of the second service by a month. Originally I had planned to come back and hit the ground running. We don’t have much time to transform the young… [Continue Reading]
Ok, I’m not sure if we’re actually working through an actual list of how things are going to be different. Maybe this is just a ramble, but I wanted to write a little bit about something I hope we can change about the way we prepare for things (services, events, functions, designs, videos, outreaches etc.)… [Continue Reading]
Making some progress on the development of a new name for the young adults ministry. There’s a lot changing with the young adults ministry and while I know that a change of name doesn’t necessarily mean anything in and of itself (names and words are kind of cheap if they are not followed by actual… [Continue Reading]
With the launch of a new service comes an opportunity to do some things different. I’m quite convinced that all along we were meant to hear God’s word preached from people who were real, genuine and authentic in their walk with God. Check out 2 Corinthians 4:7, which talks about how our frailty on the… [Continue Reading]
Hi. I’ve been thinking of changing up the speaking schedule. I want to start with a message on the importance of Scripture and push back/alter the Gospel Theme. If you keep reading this post, you’ll hear reasoning for it, and a bit of what we’ll be talking about for this proposed message. One of the… [Continue Reading]
Do you remember the first time you visited church, or the first time you visited a place? Honestly, it had been a while since I had visited a church, but now going to Chicago and seeing lots of churches, I’m all too aware of the kind of impression a first visit can give. You can… [Continue Reading]
There’s only a limited amount of material that can be covered in a Sunday service context. Mostly, during a sermon, we will be aiming to put forward the essential pieces of the topic or the theme we are trying to cover. Often however, in answering some questions we will raise a whole bunch of other… [Continue Reading]
An essential part of pastoring is being available for people. To listen, to chat and to share. With this opportunity to re-imagine what Young Adult ministry could be, I’m keen to develop a format where I’ll be accessible. Basically, I’m shooting for 2 avenues for meeting people: 1. Going in to the city on Thursday… [Continue Reading]
We get a chance to change a lot of things when we get back, and part of that is the re-naming (re-branding) of the Young Adults ministry. I’m going to use this post for suggestions and my thoughts regarding a new name for the Young Adults Ministry. I’ll keep editing the post so that you’ll… [Continue Reading]
