Spring Break is allowing me to get some needed rest. This month has caused me to grow in many ways. As my awareness of my need for the Gospel grows, my awareness of how much this city needs the Gospel grows.
Please take the time to thank God for two of our supporting churches. I am always encourage by Mac Williams, pastor at Two Rivers Community Church, and Jonathan Newman, pastor at Koinos Community Church. A couple weeks ago some of the members at Two Rivers came to visit one of our services. We appreciated seeing their excitement and support for Refuge. This past Easter I went with some others to Koinos. Jonathan Newman and many of the members at Koinos sought us out to encourage us.
I was asked several weeks ago to prepare a series at Refuge. This is the first time that I have been asked to do a series. John and I decided to go with the book of Jude. It will be a four weeks series that will start mid May. John’s baby girl will be born soon, and I will be doing this series while he takes a vacation and adjusts to having a baby in the house.
I am so thankful for my friends in Charlotte and Nick Swan. There have been some things that I have had to do lately, that I know God prepared me for, when I was around you. By your patience and allowing me to start seeing my constant need of the Gospel, I have, by God’s grace, been doing the same.
Please pray that Luke hears back soon regarding a couple interviews he had last week. Now that people at Refuge have seen him lead worship, they are egar for him and his family to move here.
Please pray for Mike and Shane. These are a couple guys that I have been talking with about the Gospel. They are struggling to see why they need the Gospel. I have also been trying to find opprotunities for me to get to know more people in Downtown. However not living and not working Downtown makes this harder.
Next month I am going to send out support letters. I need to be downtown so that I can have more interaction with the lost that are living there. My goal is to raise $10,000. It’s hard to be missional to downtown people when you don’t live there. I hope to move into either an area that is has a growing Turkish, Sudanies, or African American population. Downtown Dayton has these demographics, but I have been struggling to connect with them. I want to move into their neighborhood, and do some of the things I did in Charlotte.
