How it all began Part 3

As I drove home that afternoon, I passed through my neighborhood looking at all the houses and people mowing lawns and kids playing. Everyday I pass by these houses when going to work and coming home. Inside these homes are, kids, parents, the elderly, the broken, business men and women, politicians and people who may never step foot in a church door.

There were also Christians like myself coming home from church who live on my street and down the block and we have never met. The “Church” lives here and we don’t even know each other.

If we really want to see spiritual transformation of a city it needs to start where the “Church” lives. It seems our neighborhoods are the most effective place for doing transformation ministry because we live here 7 days a week.

I examined where I spend most of my ministry time and where I interact with my Christian friends and it wasn’t here. I had allowed myself to become more active outside of my neighborhood than in it !

So the question came to me.

Who is responsible for the spiritual transformation in my neighborhood ?

Pause….

I didn’t really want to answer the question, but I know what it is. We all do.

 

So how do we start?

How it all began Part 2

It happened as I was evaluating the measurement of our influence in creating real spiritual transformation while assisting the amazing children’s ministry.

I was sitting around with a group of kids listening to them tell me about their life at home as others had many times before when all of a sudden, everything just seemed to stop as if I were in a dream. It was as though all that I had learned and observed throughout the years converged at once.

A weariness grew over my normally cheerful disposition. For so many years I had been striving to make a difference to see whole communities and cities be spiritually transformed and had missed the obvious. I couldn’t deny it anymore.

No matter how good we are at influencing peoples lives, in order to
be the most effective in those children’s life or any one else’s, we would need to live where they live and be part of the environment they live in.

It was time to do something I have never done before and I wasn’t sure how to do it.

To be continued

How it all began Part 1

For over 35 years I have been actively involved in helping church ministries get from point A to point B. I seen just about every church model function at different levels with many different results.

As a ministry analyst I have actively engaged myself in ministries within the churches, working with as many ministry volunteers as possible in order to properly examine the operational and spiritual structure down to its smallest component, recommend changes and help implement those changes working side by side with wonderful and faithful friends.

All the Church leadership, coworkers and partners whom I have enjoyed ministry time with want to experience the real authentic Christ filled life. We want to make a difference and offer others the same experience.

One particular church ministry I enjoyed tremendously. It had such wonderful people who allowed others to use whatever gifts they had to make a difference. Anyone had the opportunity to get involved in places where they had a passion and gifting. Many gifted leaders also flourished in this environment, creating more leaders.

Then something happened that I did not expect.

To be continued….

 

 

 

What this site is about

This site will show what can happen…

• When Christians learn to connect and empower one another where they live.

It’s already beginning and in time you will learn about the story which is unfolding here and in other neighborhoods across America.