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While in NYC we also got to attend worship at Forefront Church (Like Crossings, also in the New Thing Network) and Redeemer Presbyterian. (not sure my kids were thrilled with going to church on Sunday morning and evening on vacation, but it was an opportunity to see two places I’ve never seen before)Both experiences were good. Forefront is a multi-site church meeting in the Gramercy Theater on

When we travel to NYC we like to make ‘the list’, the places that we want to see at some point during our time in the city. Sometimes the items put on the list are things we’ve visited before, others are places we’ve heard about and figure we should experience, and some are specific toward one particular family member…Here are some of those from this past trip…Some of you are familiar with my 14

New York City for my family and I almost always includes seeing a show on Broadway.Throughout the years it’s been Lion King, Movin’ Out, Man a La Mancha just to name a few (still missing the elusive Wicked). A week or so ago on vacation it was no different….The trick of going to a show on Broadway, at least for our family, is to never pay full price, which you can do by waiting til…

So, yesterday I turned 36.  It’s a good number. And it was a pretty typical birthday for me — which just means it was really busy. If you are on Facebook, you probably know what happens on your birthday.  Since my job is about as public as you can get, I have a lot of [...]

So I saw the picture above today on Facebook and it got me kind of thinking.  The Picture?  Jack and Abby are staying with grandparents this week and this is Jack spraying off the driveway in front of my in-law’s house. I guess whenever you think about your kids, you get a little reflective and [...]

Summer has meant a nice blogging vacation for me.  And while I’m planning to post a number of times this week, I’m going to take next week off again as we get out of town for a few days on a family vacation. I couldn’t think of a better topic for a first entry coming [...]

In this video Dave Richa introduces you to chapter 1 in Exponential: How You and Your Friends Can Start a Missional Church Movement. In this chapter we stress that a movement can start with you. It can! If you will...

Part of our missional strategy at COMMUNITY is to reproduce new sites so we can reach deep into local communities and neighborhoods to help more and more people find their way back to God. COMMUNITY currently has eleven locations and...

It has been about 8 weeks since Exponential: How You And Your Friends Can Start A Missional Church Movement came out. Jon and I have both been honored and excited about the reception it has received. The reviews have been...

The best part of the trip was seeing the kids in the villages.  Go to COTN’s website for more information.

Photos I took when I was in Haiti in June 2010.  6 months after the earthquake and there is still rubble everywhere and people are living in tent cities and don’t have access to clean water!

From June 4th through June 12th I was in the Dominican Republic and Haiti.  Here are some photos of the scenery of the Dominican Republic.  It is a beautiful country!  It was rainy season so everything was very green!