Archive for April, 2007
April 22, 2007 at 11:01 pm · Filed under DC
Taking a moment to reflect on the weekend, and to catch my thoughts before another great week of preparing to launch DCMetroChurch.
About the weekend, we had another great weekend at church as we discussed our latest series, “Miracles.” This week we learned that: “When we are obedient to God, we position ourselves for God’s Miracle.” Powerful, and with that said, I believe that the DCMetro Launch Team is positioned for miracles…
Just to catch you up on our progress, 
- We Got The Building!!! We are excited to say that we have just finalized the approval process for getting the Regal Theater in Alexandria (Crystal City) Virginia. It is called Potomac Yard Regal 16, and we plan on using it for the purposes of God in that wonderful community… Amen…
- About House: We have not found a house, but we have homes! We will be living with our wonderful friends, The Stroias, in Northern Virginia, as well as other friends and family along the way…
- The Way > We are going to be doing some traveling in the month of May, and will be in Louisiana, Georgia, Mississippi, Virginia, and Florida for various committments including churches, family, a birthday party and even a wedding!
- Our last Sunday at Celebration will be next Sunday as we will also have an Information Meeting after second service at the Deerwood Campus for DCMetroChurch… Check us out if you are in town…
- This week, Taryn and I are headed to Austin, Tx. We will be attending the National Conference for the ARC. This should be a great week and conference as we are looking forward to connecting with new friends as well as gleaning some new nuggets for launching in DC…
Stay tuned for more info as we will be in touch this week with more…
Have a great week,
D
PS - Pray for us… www.dcmetrochurch.org
April 16, 2007 at 12:26 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
Another Great weekend in Jacksonville… This past weekend Taryn and I were able to attend our South Campus Location of Celebration Church. We had a great time participating in their services, as well as hanging out with their Campus Pastors, Darren and Katie Sullivan, who do such a great job at “South”… It was also great to see another location that is in the earlier stages of their ministry. Being less than two years old, we were able to get some great ideas for DCMetroChurch…
This week we are ramping up a Celebration for Hillsong United who is coming in town tomorrow for a live (sold-out) concert. It will be great to see them as we have always enjoyed meeting the different teams that come through from Hillsong Church.
These guys have to be the band that Taryn and I listen to the most as their songs are forever playing in our house, vehicles, ipods etc… We have even got Isaac listening to them now, even though he still prefers his rockin’ “Praise Baby Collection” (www.praisebabycollection.com) over any of our music. Don’t worry all you United fans, Isaac will come around one day real-soon!
Until then, we will keep on singin’, “Take - Take - Take it all” to him…
David
April 12, 2007 at 10:37 pm · Filed under Uncategorized
All is going well with the DC Launch team, Taryn and I have had a productive week in the office with the help of many of our launch team members. We have had an additional help this past week as one of our EDJ interns (www.edjcollege.com), Justin Cook, has decided to work with us for the next three months in what we have called the Church Planters Track of the EDJ Program. Justin has been in various roles at Celebration, and I can already tell that it will be a great blessing to have him with us for the next three months as he learns about church planting by helping us launch DCMetroChurch.
Hope everyone is having a great week,
Get ready for a great weekend,
D
April 9, 2007 at 9:07 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, Isaac, David
Taryn and I had a great trip to DC and a wonderful Easter at Celebration. I hope you all made it to church this weekend. It seemed like everyone in Jacksonville Fl. came to Celebration Church this past weekend. Even though Easter is my favorite weekend of the year, I had no idea that we would be celebrating last Sunday with over 10,000 other people at Church.
It was amazing how it worked out, we knew that we would need more seating, but as each service went by it was as if we had placed just the right amount of chairs out for the amount of people who came. The whole church had been praying to fill all the chairs and I know that God had answered our prayers. God sent just the right amount, any more and we would have had to turn them away…
Every service brought just the right amount and after 16 weekend services at all our locations, we had over 10,000 people come to church and over a thousand receive Christ!
Go God!
I hope your weekend was as exciting…
David
PS ? that is me and Isaac’s Easter Photo (I am the photographer, and what about that rare suit and tie?)
April 9, 2007 at 8:55 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, David
Isaac has been notorious for biting Taryn and my nose… Here is proof for the second time (yes the second time!) (we have a great shot of Taryn getting her left nostral bit-off!) that he has been caught by camera…
PS - No noses were harmed in the process of obtaining this nontraditional Easter photo…
April 3, 2007 at 10:06 pm · Filed under Uncategorized, DC
We left this morning for DC, and although we miss our lil’ super-man Isaac, we are already having a great time on our journey. Where is Isaac you might ask? Isaac decided to house-sit for us while mommy and daddy are out. He was going to come with us, but he was too busy to make it on this trip, but we understood, after-all it is tough playing/eating/napping/playing all day long!
Reality:
Today we met with the General Manager of the movie theater that we are looking at for DCMetroChurch’s launch facility. Incredible! We love it and have great favor with the local management. It is a great theater right in the heart of our target area, with great rooms for adults and most importantly kids! Continue to pray with us as we move forward to lock-in this great facility. Go God!
Thankful:
We have also been very thankful that God is sending us to a place that we love! Look at God! I think so often we feel that if we surrender to the Call of God, that He is going to send us to somewhere terrible just for punishment, ouch! Well not true here, DC is the bomb! We are off and running again, we’ll catch up later…
Continue to pray for us,
D & T
Psalms 118:24
PS Disclaimer - Don’t worry, Isaac is not house-sitting alone, he has lots of stuffed animals!
