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This church planting journey God has us on has been a 2 year process, and the last 9 months have been non-stop action with many late nights, even more early mornings, and grueling hours in between.

So the time has come to get away…

Starting tomorrow morning, Teresa and I are taking off to the beach to spend the rest of the week relaxing, refreshing, and recuperating before we take on the grind of the leading our church through the Easter season and into the summer.

Revive Church is 8 weeks old and God is doing AMAZING THINGS within our midst.

Now is the time for us to enjoy where God has brought us and prepare for the next season God has in store for us in learning to lead a very young church.

So as of 9:00 pm tonight, the cell phone is off, the computer is shut down, and the vacation begins!!!

To all of you who love us so much, we’ll see you next week…

Last Thursday, I had the privilege of hanging out with some incredible Pastors.

Pastor Greg Oraham – Foothills Community Church in Seneca, SC.

Pastor Dean Herman – Five Point Fellowship Church in Easley, SC.

Pastor Craig Lee – Fellowship Church in Baldwin, GA.

Pastor Mark Bagwell – Golden Corner Church in Walhalla, SC. aka. The God Father. He planted a church 16 years ago when it wasn’t cool to plant a church. Thank you Mark for paving the way for those of us who have now come behind you!

These men have all planted churches and been in ministry for several years, and we’ve only been going for 2 months now, so how I got invited to be a part of this is beyond me!

But I am SO HONORED to learn from each of these men who are still on the front lines, who have weathered the storms, and who God is now pouring out His blessings upon simply because of their faithfulness to Him.

Leadership is an incredible gift, created by God for the building of His Kingdom, and best used when it is passed on from one to another.  We’re meeting once a month and would love for you to add to the discussion.

Interested? Just let me know…

This week has been incredibly busy so the lack of blogging has been refreshing. We’ve had so many things going on this week that blogging needed to take a back seat, but here’s a tiny bit of eveything we’ve been working on…

1. Partnership Class THIS Sunday! First one and it should be fun. I love casting vision and seeing people buy in so here is our chance to make our stance.

2. Baby Dedication THIS Sunday! Again, first one and it should be fun. Here at Revive Church, children are not just the church of the future, but rather the church of today. And anytime we can remind people of this reality it is a great thing.

3. Welcome to the Jungle wraps THIS Sunday. This has been a GREAT SERIES for us and I really hate to see it end, but we are definitely going out with a bang (Revive Church style) and I can’t wait to see all God does through this week’s series finale.

4. Inked Series Begins NEXT Sunday! I am jacked up about this 2 week series. You simply can’t go wrong talking about Jesus and in the upcoming weeks are bringing it strong as we gear up for all God is going to do through this Easter season.

5. Baptism plans in the works for the upcoming weeks! This is WHY we do WHAT we do in order to see people who are dead in life ARISE in Christ. And nothing jacks me up like seeing people come up out of the waters of faith.

Of course we can’t tell you when its going to happen because that would spoil all fun we have planned. So it looks like you are just going to have to show up during the next few weeks to make sure you don’t miss out on all God is doing!

Thank you to everyone of you who pray for on a regular basis. God is doing incredible things and I am blown away by how He is moving right now.