Figuring Out San Diego

Southern California consists of three major metro areas: the Los Angeles basin, the Inland Empire, and San Diego. LA and the IE run together and share several similarities; but San Diego is its own ballgame. My wife and I just returned from a couple days away in San Diego (hardly our first time there), and I still feel lost. Not geographically lost, but lost in my understanding of the dynamics of the area. But this much is clear: there are a lot of lost people there, and not many fundamental churches. Praise the Lord for a couple of pastors we know who are faithfully serving there, as well as for Tim & Eileen Sneeden, who are presently on deputation to plant a church there. But many more laborers are needed. I’ll probably never ‘figure out’ San Diego, but I don’t need to: God has it all figured out. The only question is who will get the joy of being the instruments He uses to accomplish His purposes there? [San Diego demographics here]

Update from Eric & Alicia True

Here’s the pdf of the True’s latest update:

Trues Update September / October 2008

Family Fun Night

We’ll get a real gallery up at findhope.net later, but here are a couple quick pictures from Family Fun Night:

Fires

We are in no danger from the fires burning across Southern California right now, and most of us live in fairly fire-safe areas. These fires are small, but they have been unusual because they have sprung up in very populated areas. As you’ve probably seen on the news, entire neighborhoods have been gone in a few hours. So it has been unusually unnerving for a lot of people.

Pray for an unsaved couple that heard the gospel in our service this morning after being evacuated from their home.

The new findhope.net

The new www.findhope.net is live as of this morning!

Five Years!

Five years ago to the day: Sunday, November 9, 2003 we held our first official public service at Callie Kirkpatrick Elementary School! David, Heather, and Kyrk; Kristalyn and I; Jerry & Renee; and one other family for a grand total of 13 people sitting on those hard chairs in that big room! We knew that the most important work was the work God was going to do in our own hearts. We knew that church planting was a marathon, not a sprint. We knew that our job was faithfulness. And beyond that we didn’t know much!

Lord willing this Saturday our five-year-old church family will gather and celebrate. While they cannot fully understand what the planting of GBC was like, they can understand that it was a small beginning, and that God has certainly chosen to work and do some things for His glory.

Kindergarten, here we come!

So Many People

When the next President of the United States takes office, he will be governing 24,000,000 more lives than President Bush was responsible for when he took office in 2000. That’s more than the entire population of countries such as Australia, Taiwan, Chile, Romania, and the Netherlands.

This is a huge responsibility, but it is not nearly as important as the responsibility that Christ’s church has to proclaim good tidings of His salvation to the 305,000,000 people of this country.

If there are 24,000,000 more people in America today than 8 years ago, do we still need to plant churches here?