Background and part of the Story.

This Blog is just to give you a glimpse into our lives as we go through this church planting process. Right now we are just beginning the journey. As a full time job, I have been working for a church media, marketing, and web company for the last 7 years. It has been an incredible ride. It was after bible school and while working at faithHighway that the call of God to plant a church somewhere in the Cleveland, OH area was solidified. It was April of 2002 when we received this specific call to ministry. We were directed at that time that we would not receive the next step for 5 years and that I was to stay at faithHighway & serve faithfully in ministry. My job at faithHighway led us to Austin, TX where we gained much ministry experience and were eventually led to Celebration Church in Georgetown, TX. In April of 2007 Celebration Church hosted the ARC (Assoc. of Related Churches) annual conference. ARC is a revolutionary church planting organization that fits with the things that have been in our heart, but we did not know exactly how to express. This meeting along with several other things became our confirmation that our direction was changing and that we need to start moving toward the launching the church in OH. It was almost exactly 5 years, just like God had told us in 2002. Since then we have made several steps and were actually planning on leaving for Ohio this month, until about November of last year. We found out that we are having our 5th child (no we aren't Catholic and we do know what causes this) combined with knowing that we were supposed to stay connected to Celebration Church, caused us to rethink April. We were getting pretty excited about moving forward, but the next 6-9 months left in Texas are going to be invaluable. I got much more to say, but I am off to bed instead. Until next time ...