How to Pray for our Nicaragua Team
In less than a week we will be taking our 2010 team to our Hope Center in Tecolostote Nicaragua. We will be working with some of our national pastors, doing some Evangelistic Work,…
Topic: missions
What you don't See
What you don't see is Tania Heier taking the shoes off of her son Pablito and giving them to a boy in Nicaragua. I am so proud of our team in Teco and all the hard work that they d…
Easter Offering for San Lorenzo
On February third I got in the back of an Isuzu pickup truck and drove from the Nicaraguan town of Tecolostote to the neighboring town of San Lorenzo. The Hope Center in Teco was a…
Methods of Personal Evangelism
I mentioned in the service that I would post some how to methods for leading a person to faith in Christ. ABC’s / Romans Road a. Admit Romans 3:23 ( ESV ) 23 for all have sinned an…
T-Minus 18 Days to Nicaragua
2009 is off to a hot start, and it is hard to believe that our team will be leaving for Nicaragua in just 18 days. We will be working with World Hope to construct some pavilions to…
BIG Money
Last night at our prayer meeting I found out that there is a group of ladies who are specifically praying for God to give us 9 million dollars for the next stage of ministry here i…
Iraqi Underground
Yesterday I got to meet a pastor of a former underground church in Iraq. I say former because after "Iraqi Freedom" they are free to worship Christ. Here are some things I took awa…
April's Big Give - Blog
This past Sunday our church distributed $1,000 ($5.00 at a time) to the congregation with the task of making a difference in the life of someone in our community. We believe that a…
I Give Hope
This year we will be receiving a Christmas Offering that I am very excited about. Our offering will be going to the students of the Hope Center in Nairobi Kenya. If we are able to …
My Tribe
I got a chance to hang out with my tribe yesterday in St. Pete. Joe Murray, our church planter in Harmony picked me up and we rode together. I am so excited about what God is doing…
America's Ugly Exported "Gospel"
Ernie Rischer , one of our snow-birds, is a member of John Piper's church. He is an awesome leader and this is a great rant against the health and wealth gospel that unfortunately …
God has my mind spinning
I am currently reading a number of books all at the same time. I don't know how it happened other than I was given two, one by a friend and another at a conference, one I had order…
Monday Meeting Download
What a great day off. We went to Joe Murray's meeting today and heard two outstanding messages from Russell Johnson at IBB in Miami and Mike Stancil from Calvary Baptist in Taylorv…
April Mission Letter from Gene McKinnley
Wednesday, April 18, 2007 Dear Pastor and praying Friends: What a blessing it is to serve the Lord! Last month we ordered the pew coverings and they said it would be 14+ days. We n…
Church Planting In Harmony
Joe Murray, our church planter in Harmony writes... We celebrated our 2 year anniversary on Sunday, March 25th with 103 attending. Our service included testimonies, lasting for bet…
Sunday Synopsis
Today's services were great. I am still in preacher withdraw from not getting to speak today. But Michael brought it. We were all inspired, and I think we all want to go plant a ch…
Outback Upfront
"What will you do if you are not approved by the Missions Organization and if none of these churches support you?" That was the question that I asked Michael Nelson two years ago a…
Don't Quit Your Day Job
My good buddy Mark over at Ephesus has a great post that every potential church planter should read. You can find it here. We must change how we define church, back to the biblical…
Natural Law of Reproduction
In Genesis 11:11,12 God gives us a bit of natural law. Then God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to…
Church Planting in Knoxville or Bust
The other day I was able to sit down with Chris Sliger who is going to West Knoxville TN to plant a church. In our conversation he asked a few questions that I thought I would shar…
Evangelism @ Work
This Sunday we will be talking about personal evangelism. God has called every believer to share their faith with the WORLD. Most of us struggle, with the mechanics, and have been …
BOOMER
Last Sunday night Gabe and I had a chance to go to a new church start in Lakeland called Gravity. The "Vision Pastor" is a young guy named Boomer , and he has a neat thing going in…
Reproducing Churches Network
Reproducing churches is a network of pastors/planters who are highly motivated to see churches started along the I-4 corridor. The premise is that we will work together for prayer,…