So with a healthy amount of research in hand, and after praying and fasting, and talking to people we trusted, everything came to the point of the entire process that we had been waiting for. There was nothing left but to decide the name of our new church plant and commit to that name, brand, and direction.
Our vision, “so the people of the South Bay will fully experience life in Christ,” had given us clarity in choosing the six names we researched. Continue reading “Naming a Church: Part 3”
So as our Launch Team and I began thinking through the principles I discussed in part 1, we literally began coming up with a list of over 100 possible names. Many of them we eliminated because they did not fit the principles discussed in the last post. Others were just overused by other churches. Some we didn’t like, and still more names were already represented in cities within a close proximity to our target area. If you can’t tell, we spent a great deal of time and effort thinking through this… Continue reading “Naming a Church: Part 2”
This past weekend, my wife and I announced to our church family at Edgewood that this July we will be leaving to launch a new church in the South Bay area of San Jose, CA.
This has been a day that Tiffany and I have been looking forward to with great anticipation for many years. We told our church that when we began in ministry, we knew two things: that God had called me to lead a church one day as the Lead Pastor, and that the church I would lead would not be an existing church, but a church plant. Continue reading “Our Big Announcement…”
The phrase no pain, no gain has been a mantra for athletes and fitness junkies for years. And what they understand about physical pain needs to be broadened to a much more general use in all of our lives. Pain hurts. That's the whole problem. No one enjoys it, and if someone does, we rightfully
The Premium of Pain