Wednesday, July 14We took off from Reagan National for Miami at about 6am, then made a quick transfer there to our flight to Port-au-Prince. Surprisingly, it was a big plane and it was full. Many of the people on the flight were with Church groups (Evangelical Church groups), clearly identifiable by their T-shirts. As we […]
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We are back from Haiti and sorting out all of our experiences. I will post an account of what happened to us day by day. It was an amazing and life changing trip, but I am not sure yet what we learned or what our next steps are. The experience is too fresh and too […]
Greetings from Les Bons Samaritains school in Haiti. It’s been an amazing three days, and it will be extremely difficult to sum up our experiences in just a few words. The weather has been hot with rain in the afternoons. Traveling from church to church is extremely difficult due to extreme erosion and lack of […]
Today we travel to Haiti to see how our church can serve God and the people of Haiti. Please continue to pray for our efforts.
The other day I got hit over the head. Here’s what happened. I was sitting in my living room and part of the ceiling fell down. I wasn’t hurt, and it wasn’t really a surprise. A leaky roof had been repaired a while back, but the damage to the ceiling had gone unaddressed. I just […]
He has risen! –Luke 24.6 The three words that changed everything were the words of the angel on that first Easter morning, the first Easter celebration. The most recent Easter celebrations, here at Nativity, were really amazing too and I want to thank everyone who made that happen. We had dozens (hundreds?) of volunteer ministers working […]
About half way through the 10:30 Mass this morning here at Ridgely Road, during the Creed, Austin (a Sunday staffer) came over to me and whispered “Crowne Plaza is filled.” It was one of those moments that I will easily remember for a long time, maybe forever. It is great when you get to […]
This weekend we made a big announcement, at least we thought it was a big announcement. At prime time church time (9-12 Sunday mornings) we have no space, no seats, no overflow area, no standing room, nothing. We didn’t have a creche this year, or last year, because we don’t have any room to display […]
2009 was a great year full of blessings. Here are (just) a few of the highlights for me: Winter/Spring: spiritual warfare; the cool looking Ministry Fair; our high school students on Good Friday; Easter Sunday Praise Party; our Spring Staff Retreat; the people committed to strengthening our small group commitment Summer: trying out […]
From Michael For the next four weeks I am not preaching, and do not have to prepare a message. We are doing after Mass messages for our current series on the Bible and Tom and Chris are speaking. Without message preparation, my week looks and feels very different than usual. I am hoping to get […]
