Thursday, June 09, 2005

Daily Rambles

Welcome, to my latest venture into cyberspace... "What's on my mind" pastors blog.

As you read my postings I hope that you will enjoy getting to know me as a real person. A person that laughs a lot, loves life to the fullest and is deeply and passionately committed to serving Jesus Christ and seeing Journey Church become a healthy growing thriving purpose driven church. A church that makes it very hard to go to Hell in Rochester and a church that creatively and lovingly helps people gain and better understanding and personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I look forward to reading your reply, comments, thoughts and questions.

To begin this blog I want to share how excited I am to have served the past 13 months as the lead pastor / church planter of Journey Church. The people that have come into my families life, into the church family are simply amazing! Church planting is by far the best thing I and my family have ever done. It is also the challenging and consuming thing we have ever done. Being a church planter has helped to grow my faith and prayer life. It has also taught me a lot about myself as a teacher, leader, person, friend and follower of Christ. I am excited to be leading a church that is on the cutting edge of reaching people for Christ and developing "Fully devoted followers of Christ." When we thought of our catch phrase, "People on an adventure ton know the real God", we never imagined how incredible the adventure would be.

So I thank you for joining with us now as the adventure continues. If In or the church may be of any help, please contact us at anytime... Or be our guest Sunday mornings at the Chateau Theater in Rochester, MN.

Rich