It is important that one has affirmation in life. Currently my wife and I are 4 months away from heading down to South Florida to reach unchurched people by means of planting a church. We have recieved affirmation in this call from more than one person, but we felt like one piece of the puzzle was missing. We decided to take the advice of Matt Mehaffey lead pastor and planter of The Pursuit Christian Church (and a friend of ours), to check out an organization known as CPAC (Church Planting Assesment Center). Through much prayer and discusion Joy and I decided to head to White Marsh, Maryland on September 14th-17th to attend CPAC.
Matt and The Pursuit decided to help sponsor us for a large portion of the cost of CPAC, but it was essential that we raise the rest. Well… as of yesterday evening a friend of mine took care of the rest. His name is John Atkinson and he is the MultiSite Pastor at Bay Area Fellowship. He is a mentor of mine that I met through social networking on Twitter. That’s right… I said Twitter! I wasn’t even going to ask him to assist financially… he just believes in what we are doing so much that he and Bay Area Fellowship wanted to help us!
It’s great to know that we’ve got guys like Matt and John in our corner! It’s even greater to know that God is bigger than any uncertainty that will come our way in church planting… and we can count on the fact that it will come our way! It may be cliche, but “Where God guides, he provides!” And he is showing/teaching us this daily.
