Days Three and Four

Three - Monday
Well, the previous two days have completely drained me, so, I slept in. Way in! Didn't get up until like 10. We didn't leave the house and get into cleveland until like 1:00. We left all of the kids (except Ezra) at my Mom's house for the week. Woohoo! A whole week with my wife and only one kid. I am not sure what to do with myself. In short, We had a good time talking, sharing vision and heart, and stoping at the awesome Starbuck's on the Ohio turnpike. We got into Avon the place where we have been praying about over the last year or so, and drove around a little. We stopped by the highschool to check it out. It maybe a potential great place to start services. The building is new and an incredible facility. They were practicing for a live presentation of "Highschool Musical". We called the school and the lady told us that in Avon they believe in the separation of church and state and that she didn't think they would rent to a "Religous Organiazation". She knew of a couple of other cities that might do that, but, she would give me the information anyway of who to contact. We talked to the city planner and he said that the lady had no clue what she was talking about and that they would be happy to rent the facility to us. Haha ... people are funny ... we always want to interject our own interpretation what what the law should say. Anyway, we drove around and talk to some folks in Avon and Westlake. Over a pretty good day. We drove to one of Faith's best friends to stay for the night

Four - Tuesday

We had breakfast, check email and facebook, hopped in the car and started driving back toward Avon again. We called a couple of ARC churches in the area to see if we could meet with them and talk about what we are doing, hear about their ministries and get some advise. We talked to our realtor and set up an appointment to look at some houses to rent and set up dinner for that night to review our needs again. We found an ARC church in Westlake that we didn't realize was there. We have heard about this church, but didn't know that it was and ARC church. We called our superiors to check on what advice they might give us on whether or not they thought it might be to close. Drove around looked at some more of the city and met some more people. We gave out some cards and collected info of some people that seemed interested in hear more about what we are doing. We met Realtor Mike at Red Robins for dinner. Great guy with heart for ministry. He was involved with his church plants a few years back and had some great insight into the area. We mentioned that we wanted to go check out "Church on the Rise", and he had a friend that is married to the pastor's administrative assistant. She got us in for a tour and meeting with the pastor the next day. Wow, that was interesting right. Overall it was good and full day. We drove to facebook buddy Chris's house and turned in for the night.