A Great Vacation and Sunday at Redeemer Community Church

Emily and I had a great vacation in Charleston, SC last week! It was a relaxing time for us to visit our favorite town and enjoy the beach as well. We stayed in a great location in Mount Pleasant, SC, just a few minutes from the beach at the Isle of Palms and a short drive to downtown Charleston. I highly recommend the location if you like both the historical and market stuff in Charleston, but also want to hang out at the beach.

Saturday and Sunday, Emily and I spent some time with our friends John and Lindsay Fooshee (pronouned Foo-shay--it's French) and their son Sterling. Their daughter Kate was at a sleepover, so we missed her... But she's great too!

John is the Lead Pastor of Redeemer Community Church in Johnson City, TN, a member of the Acts29 Network, and my church planting coach. He invited Emily and me to worship with their church on Sunday and graciously invited me to preach. We enjoyed spending the morning with Redeemer and it was rewarding to share from Romans 7:1-6 as their church moves through that great book of the Bible.

Emily's parents from Knoxville and my parents from Chilhowie, VA were there, which was really cool. Also super-cool was enjoying the Redeemer worship team. Jim Fickley, the Leadership Coach on staff at Redeemer and an Acts29 member, played the piano and also has a fine singing voice... I was impressed at how good he was on the keys just a couple weeks after shoulder surgery!

This weekend, Emily and I are visiting The Point Community Church in Frankfort, KY. Rick Long is the Lead Pastor there and another Acts29 member. He's generously invited Emily and me to visit and share with his church on Sunday morning about the vision God has given us for the new church we are planting in the NE Knoxville area. We're looking forward to enjoying Sunday with his church and seeing what The Point's worship time is like.

It's always nice to make new friends and have people to encourage you... The Acts29 Network is a great organization for a church planter to belong to and the member pastors have proven to be a wonderful group of awesomely supportive guys!