I was on facebook one night when I received a message from Christine.
She said that she had been going along to Phridays with Phil, and had been really encouraged by the numbers of eastern suburbs kids committed to city ministry.
She then asked "Where was the southwest version?" "Why was there nothing in the southwest?"
We sat down and talked about it, put together our long list of contacts, and then sent out a mass email, asking if anyone was interested in meeting over dinner to brainstorm how we could be better at uniting for the gospel and reaching the southwest.
Fifty people showed up at that first dinner. It was amazing. I hadn't expected fifty people to show up at all. I had thought maybe thirty if we were lucky but over fifty people came for dinner and to brainstorm what we could do in the southwest.
We needed to inform them of the need in the southwest. The incredible need for people to stay and to actually care about ministry here.
Two main points came from the brainstorming:
1. people wanted to continue networking together. unity was encouraging and everyone was being spurred on by everyone else
2. people could see that anything was possible.
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Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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