PIcnic In The Park...
Here we are hanging out in Forsyth Park, listening to Jazz music and enjoying the family on a lazy Sunday evening! It was a great night with cool breezes, chicken from KFC, and hundreds of people with blankets on the ground, tables with glowing candles, children playing and some of Savannah’s best musicians entertaining the crowd. Life is good.
He was called the prince of preachers and for good reason. He pastored the Metropolitan Tabernacle in London for 31 years. He could hold audiences spellbound with his great oratory and style. He was the first to have a “mega church”. A strong Calvinist, he never gave public altar calls but many were saved under his ministry. If you have never read or studied the life of Spurgeon, do yourself and your church a favor…study him and his ministry.
July 15, 2008
Saturday Night Church
Journey Church, a purpose driven multi-site church, expands to Hinesville Georgia. Journey Church, whose main campus meets in Bloomingdale Georgia, is starting a second location in Hinesville Georgia at the Brewton Parker College Auditorium located at 2140 E. Oglethorpe Highway starting Saturday night August 23rd These church services are on Saturday Nights at 5:30 PM rather than Sunday mornings. Saturday night services provide the option of attending church on Saturday night and then having all day Sunday free and open for family activities or whatever people need or want to do on Sundays.
Journey Church is made up of people from all walks of life who are being transformed by Jesus Christ. The mission of Journey Church is to lead people to become sincere Christ followers.
Our first service will be Saturday night August 23 @ 5:30 PM. Our services are casual in style, our music is consistent with today’s culture, and the messages are aimed at real life needs. Our messages are powerful, relevant and teach truths from the Bible. We like to say, “this ain’t your daddy’s church”. Dress comfortably, meet new people, relax and worship in an atmosphere created with you in mind. Our Saturday night experiences start at 5:30 PM and lasts one hour –you can expect us to start and end on time.
Supervised volunteer and paid Childcare is provided for your children. We provide free Star Bucks coffee. The leadership of the Hinesville campus is made up of leaders from the Bloomingdale & Hinesville communities.
For more information visit www.journeychurchhinesville.wordpress.com
Savannah Ga. was founded in 1733 and is a beautiful city with lots of history and charming p
eople. One of the most photographed fountains in the United States is our very own Forsyth Fountain. It is gorgeous during the day and splendid at night with the lights illuminating it for everyone to see. There are lots of good churches in the area and Journey Church plans to become one of them and then some.
Morgan’s Bridge in Bloomingdale ga
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Ok – I am 100% new to the multi-site concept. New in the sense that I have heard about it, know some churches that have done it successfully and new in the sense that I am about to jump in the water and trust God in this arena. Tony Morgan wrote a great article highlighting the book, “The Multi Site Church Revolution” by Surratt, Ligon and Bird. You can read it here – enjoy http://tonymorganlive.com/2006/09/13/the-multi-site-church-revolution/
Journey Church is about to launch its second campus in Hinesville, Georgia. Hinesville is a military town with approximately 32,000 people and Fort Stewart Army Base houses the 3rd Infantry. The services will be held at Brewton Parker College in the Margret Lee Martin Auditorium each Saturday @ 5:30 PM beginning Saturday August 16, 2008.
Check this out – great stuff and my hat is off to him for being bold enough to say it. Many church plants are led by really great men of God who are on the edge of faith everyday. BUT…. many are Church Transplants. There are many guiys who go into churches and stay there for a few years, develop a following and then pull out with a crowd of folks and play the “God Card”. Ed is the man to say it straight and plain. It makes sense if you have been in the ministry any length of time. Check it out.
I have the good fortune of being married to my best friend. That sounds corny but it is true. Tuesday and I spend tons of time together. We, as Dr. Phil likes to say, “co-parent” two children. We have a 5 year old little boy and a 3 year little girl. If I had to pinpoint the reasons we are so close I would have to say that it is not rocket science, religion, interests, or even chemistry. It is much simpler than all of those things.
I have known people who approached marriage as an “institution to be understood and figured out” and they were unhappy and it showed on their faces. I have known a go-zillion couples who had the same religion, believed the same things about the bible and went to the same church and yet were miserably married and unhappy and if given the option of doing it over together again would pass. I have known couples who enjoyed the same vacation spots, same books, political views and sports. That produced a good buddy and conversationalist but not a life partner. We all have known people who could “burn for each other” but that was all they had until morning and then they felt like strangers.
Here’s a phrase: soul mates. Sounds goofy, doesn’t it. But is sometimes very true. I have the good fortune of being married to my soul mate. I was extremely lucky to have met her, married her, experienced parenthood with her, served the Lord in church with her, been involved in business with her and to be called her best friend. Given the opportunity to marry her again I’d do it in a heart beat – or faster.
As much as is possible without being in the actual pain, I felt my heart break for the Chapman family when I read the news about his little 5 year old daughter. I have a 5 year old son and a 3 year old daughter. My little girl dresses up like Cinderella or Snow White everyday. We go to the mall, restaurants, and even the park with Cinderella or Snow White. She loves to wear those outfits – shoes and all! What can I say? Nothing. Words cannot capture the deep and intense pain they are facing. Here is a youtube clip of little Maria Sue and her dad on vacation in Florida.
Like you, we are praying for them.
