Favor And Blessing

The past few weeks have been marked by favor and blessing.   We are beginning to see some of the first pledges of support from people in Michigan come in for the start up work in Indy.  I am slowly contacting churches and organization in our Diocese and beyond who may help us plant All Souls and develop other relationship-based ministry in the Indy area.  We have begun to contact people one on one asking them to come along side us on by a monthly pledge or a one time gift to reach our funding goal of $80,000 for the first two years.

We "closed" on the house without a glitch on Friday June 17th.  We now are renting for 30 days as we pack and clean with and will load the truck on July 16th.  Pray for dry weather that day as I have several college guys and one of my sons help me pack up a tractor trailer which will be hauled and stored in Indy till we are ready to have it delivered to our new rental house (which is yet to be determined).  The sale could not have gone smoother, even to the degree that our agent noted "it does not usually go any better than this."

Last weekend we had we our moving sale.  We sold many household items and some furniture as we try to lighten the load for Indy.  More importantly we had a chance to share with many people of our work and our move to Indiana. I love talking about the Lord and His goodness and favor.   For example several weeks ago, Deb and I were on a walk only days after we sold the house and came across 75 once-used moving boxes broken down and stacked by the road waiting for the trash men the next morning.  We got the van and snatched them up and could almost hear the Lord say " I sold the house in three days and now I have your boxes ready!"


We will be "homeless" for a little over a month in July and August, but again some friends who have been part of one of our prayer groups but attend a larger church on Sundays have offered us there basement apartment free of charge for a month.  Deb will finish her work and once out of the house my full-time work will be in seeking funding for our new venture.

Pray for ongoing favor in this time of sharing the vision of planting Anglican Church on the northwest side of Indy, but my hope in helping in some way all the Anglican efforts in the area move forward and work together.   We dream of establishing disciple- making communities that have a passion for serving the needs of our communities, engage the spiritual and real needs of our neighbors while worshiping our God and Savior in Word and Sacrament.

Our last Sunday with New Wine Anglican is August 14th.  We will hit the ground running in Indy August 22.