Assorted Stuff

Its been a while since I have updated the blog bascially because Rachel and I have been moving for EVER it seems like! We are getting close!!!!

Couple tidbits of information:

Foundations Community Church now has two domain names that we own:

http://www.foundationscommunitychurch.org/ and http://www.foundationschurch.net/. The second is autoforwarded to the first so that we will only have one real website. I haven't gotten too indepth into creation of the site, due to of course moving!

Secondly, the church has an address that we will use for all communication via snail mail for now:

Foundations Community Church

732 Eden Way North

#135, Suite E

Chesapeake, VA 23320

Thirdly, Rachel's brother has been awesome at helping us out by working on some church logo's. Please look and see what (if anything) you like. And serouisly, he is only like 6'4" and 240, so don't be scared to make fun of him and stuff, I am sure he will love it.....has that anger problem too...:)

Reflections on Insanity

I have been reading through the Gospels in my devotions lately, and I am in Mark. Yesterday morning I read the following:

Mark 3:20-21
Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, "He is out of his mind."

Jesus was so "out there" for God that his own family thought He was insane. I had completely forgotten that those closest to Him wanted to have Him committed. I can imagine how they felt: "There goes our brother again, ticking off all our friends. Thinks He can heal people, yeah right...." It would be pretty difficult to see the same young man you knew on a completely different "track" for his life than you would have thought. Most sons followed their fathers in business back then, and his family didn't recognize that Jesus was following his Father.

I have been thinking about this for the past day or so and I wonder how "insane" I am to those who have known me for so long but don't know the change Jesus brings into the lives of those who are His redeemed. Do they think I am crazy? I sure hope so!

What about you?

Blessings!

Core Group Reflections

WEDNESDAY NIGHT IS IT!
Starting Wednesday June 18, Core Group meeting will be on Wednesday nights. This will allow us a firm meeting time and be a day that we can translate into Leadership Community Meetings, once we are established!

We talked indepth about intimacy and the importance it plays in ministering to a hurting, lost, and dying community. As Rick Warren, and only slightly less famous Craig Boyer say: "People won't care how much you know, until they know how much you care."

We are going to be walking through the Purpose Driven Church in our first series of "study" sessions, discussing what we like and dislike and how we can incorporate them into our minsitry!

Everyone have a great rest of the week!

Intimacy Musings (Acts 2)

Next Core meeting we will be examining the biblical mandate that we see for our core values. The value that we have identified as being number one and really driving the other values for the church is intimacy.

Intimacy is something that we as a culture are trending away from, but we as individuals desperately need. One of our tasks is to discover how we as a body can make intimacy real to our core, and also to the community as a whole. The big caveat in that statement is not only how to maintain intimacy when we are just starting, but how to permeate our church with a culture of intimacy.

The chief scripture passage that comes to mind is that of Acts 2:42-47. The first church in Jerusalem was an intimate church. Our challange as a core group is to determine what principles we can glean from this church, and how we can apply those principles to modern ministry.

This will be the discussion for most of Sunday's meeting!

Later!

Tuesday Update

Hey all:

Since we have been hosting our Core meetings on Monday nights I will be updating this blog Tuesdays with some of the stuff we have talked about.

Last night was an awesome meeting, we really nailed down and discussed the Core Values we believe God has instilled in our hearts which are Intimacy, Community, and Family. We believe that these three items will drive the ministries that we undertake to reach people in our community with the Gospel.

It was also an exciting time because we were able to review some of the spiritual gift assessments and start identifying where people felt God was calling them to minister. It is going to be awesome to take our "ideas" now and sit back in a year or so and see how God actually used us.

We also solidified the name of our church as "Foundations Community Church" and are working on develping a mission/vision statement, as well as a mission slogan so all ideas are welcome! :)

Be in prayer for Rachel and I as we move towards closing on our house in the community, it is a few weeks off and there are one or two things that need to come together for a smooth operation.

God bless!