So the Church planting assessment continues!  We are now way more tired than we were yesterday!  We are having a wonderful time here at beulah beach!  So here is a recap of today and what we kind of expect tomorrow!

  • 8:00 am breakfast
  • 8:45 am I led worship (singing and playing guitar) not as a part of assessment but just to focus ourselves on the Lord before we started our day.
  • 9:00 am we began engaging scenarios about a church plant – we did this for 3 hours!
  • 12:00 pm was lunch which was very very good
  • 1:00 pm was more working together and learning about our personality profiles and strengths
  • 3:00 pm we were given a task to “plant 5 churches in Akron, Ohio in the next 7 years to present to a ‘donor’” so we worked on this until dinner
  • 6:00 pm was dinner
  • 6:45 pm Christina and I were given the results of a psychological exam which I am still in awe over!  Praise God for what he did in that session for both Christina and I.  We have many things to think and pray about. These people are so tuned in to what God is doing in our lives it is scary!  Thank you so much for your prayers in this area. Christina and I are overwhelmed with how God is working and moving in us.
  • 7:30 pm we were back in the group to continue the work of bringing our proposal together.  We are working out the bugs and making sure that we yield to the Holy Spirit as we try and come up with a strategy of where to plant these new churches and how we will go about doing this.
  • 11:15 pm Christina and I were finishing up some details and now I am thinking through my portions of the pitch to the “donor” tomorrow!

We hope to be in bed by 2 am!  I think we can make it.

Prayer Requests:

  • We are both very tired
  • There are so many things to think and talk about and we can’t talk them all through so please pray that God will bring these things back to our minds on our rest days.  We are trying hard to write tons of things down but we are missing having the ability to really sort things out.
  • The dreamer in me is super thrilled and the organizer in Christina is filling all the holes, pray that we would continue to work well together and with the team of people that are here!

Stay tuned for more to come tomorrow!