Opening Day Jitters
Monday afternoon, my beloved New York Mets won their home opener against the Washington Nationals, strengthening fans' hopes to return a world championship to Queens. Each year at this time, fans of the Amazin's contemplate off-season acquisitions and trades and Spring Training performance and boldly recall Tug McGraw's 1973 mantra: "Ya Gotta Believe!"
Ascension Presbyterian Church has had a very busy off-season if you will and our pre-launch and broadening phase (church planting's
Spring Training) has ended and the regular season begins this Sunday with Michael throwing out the first pitch at 4:00 pm. Excitement is high and anticipation of God's current and future work is encouraging. Our reliance on God's grace and enthusiasm can draw a bold claim from us as well: "Ya Gotta Believe!"
I won't drag out the baseball analogy too far lest some of you begin to wonder if I'm more loyal to Ascension Church or the Mets. How cool would it be though, to bring the Gospel and the World Series to Queens in the same year?
As I indicated last week, there is some exciting news afoot for us on the heels of our launch preparations. This past week, we secured a new worship location. Michael and I delivered a check to the New York City Department of Education's regional operations center this week to secure our use of a public school auditorium. This facility is in a better location in the center of Forest
Hills, significantly larger than the library where we currently meet, and we are able to schedule our worship service for 10:30 am... a move which creates a level or credibility for us that our current 4:00 pm time does not. This has been in the works for us for a few weeks now, but I didn't want to mention it on my blog until it was secured with check in hand. Add this news to the excitement over our launch this week, and you can imagine the electric atmosphere between Michael and me, and our entire launch community.
This is a busy week for us, as you might imagine, so I need to cut this entry short here, but please keep Ascension Presbyterian Church in your prayers this week and in the weeks to come as we hope to follow up the launch with a number or outreach programs and ministries.
Monday afternoon, my beloved New York Mets won their home opener against the Washington Nationals, strengthening fans' hopes to return a world championship to Queens. Each year at this time, fans of the Amazin's contemplate off-season acquisitions and trades and Spring Training performance and boldly recall Tug McGraw's 1973 mantra: "Ya Gotta Believe!"
Ascension Presbyterian Church has had a very busy off-season if you will and our pre-launch and broadening phase (church planting's
Spring Training) has ended and the regular season begins this Sunday with Michael throwing out the first pitch at 4:00 pm. Excitement is high and anticipation of God's current and future work is encouraging. Our reliance on God's grace and enthusiasm can draw a bold claim from us as well: "Ya Gotta Believe!"I won't drag out the baseball analogy too far lest some of you begin to wonder if I'm more loyal to Ascension Church or the Mets. How cool would it be though, to bring the Gospel and the World Series to Queens in the same year?
As I indicated last week, there is some exciting news afoot for us on the heels of our launch preparations. This past week, we secured a new worship location. Michael and I delivered a check to the New York City Department of Education's regional operations center this week to secure our use of a public school auditorium. This facility is in a better location in the center of Forest
Hills, significantly larger than the library where we currently meet, and we are able to schedule our worship service for 10:30 am... a move which creates a level or credibility for us that our current 4:00 pm time does not. This has been in the works for us for a few weeks now, but I didn't want to mention it on my blog until it was secured with check in hand. Add this news to the excitement over our launch this week, and you can imagine the electric atmosphere between Michael and me, and our entire launch community.This is a busy week for us, as you might imagine, so I need to cut this entry short here, but please keep Ascension Presbyterian Church in your prayers this week and in the weeks to come as we hope to follow up the launch with a number or outreach programs and ministries.
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