lots of late nights, and good stories

I'm up late again, getting ready for a seminar that I'm teaching at Calvary tomorrow night--er, tonight, I guess. I think I'm about ready to go. The seminar is part of our WoW life series--Without Walls living. My topic is Telling Good News, and, as you can guess, it's about sharing the gospel with others.

One of the coolest parts of my week has been hearing the stories from students who took part in our CityServe last weekend. We canceled the weekend worship services and mobilized close to 600 people, sending them out into the community to serve. Our students had a great experience doing good deeds. It's our hope and dream that we can re-shape the way people think about being the church. We want our good deeds to open the door for the Good News about Jesus and God's reconciliation plan throughout our neighborhoods.

My family took some time Sunday morning to head down to the creek that runs through our neighborhood. We walked through the creek pulling out the garbage that had accumulated from the winter's melt-off. Well, the kids and I walked in the creek, while Kim stayed out of the water! It was coooooold water, and we gathered 2 big garbage bags full of trash.

It felt good to serve our neighborhood. We're going to start prayerwalking our little 2 street neighborhood, too.