Handling disunity

I’ve been thinking about and dealing with the issue of disunity in the church. It can be a really tough issue to deal with. I’ve done a lot of praying and study on the issue. This stuff does not just go away by itself. It has to be dealt with.
I came across some good counsel [...]

Revive and Stay Alive!

Last Sabbath afternoon we finished our week of revival. Our theme was Revive and Stay Alive. In my experience revivals have lasted perhaps as long as the even itself. We had some good singing, powerful preaching from local Pastors and some fervent prayer. We had prayer and fasting to close the week. The last hour [...]

Design Charette Day 3

We munched on pizza as we got into “it” last night. We had a site plan and some 3d modeling to discuss. Our new building has really begun to take shape. Flesh is really beginning to appear on the bones or is it drywall? This whole process has lifted our building committee onto [...]

Design Charette

Today we start the design Charette for our new building. Three architects are flying in from Utah from the design and build company Building God’s Way. This is exiting. For the next three days we (the building committee and the architects) will be working together to produce a preliminary design for our church. Its going [...]

2020

It is Tuesday January 1st 2020 and the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists’ membership stands at 60,000. This is double the size it was in 2008. It’s a stunning achievement and many are still amazed by the incredible growth of the church over the past 10 years. It’s been the subject of many news reports [...]

The Mission

About two weeks ago I attended a Pastor/Teacher conference sponsored by the Potomac Conference of Seventh-day Adventists. Potomac conference is the conference that I work for. The theme was “The Mission”. There was sense of passion and urgency that I have rarely seen at a workers meeting. The conference president, Bill Miller, talked about [...]