Birth Date

When Anna and I were called to plant a church here in the Palouse early in 2011, it was like God birthed something inside of us.  So we came up here in March and April and recruited people to join us in planting a church here in Moscow and came away with having 6 families willing to partner with us.  So on May 1st Anna and I pulled in here not knowing what was to come and just trusting it wasn't heart burn we were feeling (It wasn't heart burn!!). One of the first pieces of wisdom we received from our training was to treat this plant like a birth.  They encouraged us to not rush into launching the church because one of the main reasons church plants fail is because they are birthed too soon.  So we decided to treat Intersect like a fetus and decided to take almost 9 months to train our launch team, get to know our launch team, and exegete our community (big words that mean get to know your community, their mindset, and their way of life) before we launched it.  So here we are 2 and half weeks from our birth date and it has felt like this thing has gone so slow, but as we all know the last trimester of pregnancies are the most important.  So I want to ask all of you for your prayers in these next 3 weeks.  These next 3 weeks are going to be exciting for us, challenging, and miraculous.  So we need all hands on deck praying in faith, supporting financially, encouraging all who are apart of this, and lets be ready for this baby to be born!!  Pretty awesome that our baby (Intersect Community Church... Anna is not pregnant) is being born the same time of year that we celebrate the birth of our Lord Jesus.  Lets look to our Lord Jesus and ask that this church being born will impact our community and our world like Jesus' birth did.  Let us remind Him that this is His church and He promised that His church will destroy the gates of Hell!!  So thanks to everyone who has been apart of this pregnancy up to this point and I am asking for more involvement especially in the next 3 weeks as we prepare to give birth.  God bless all of you!!