My good friend Lyandon Warren serves as a church-planting catalyst with the North American Mission Board while also starting and pastoring a church in VT. He recently posted a few videos about Burlington and our church planting endeavors on his website: vermontchurchplanting.com.
Vermont Church Planting: This is Burlington, with Kevin Pounds from Boe Ellis on Vimeo.
I like statistics… especially when they mean something. Below are some random Vermont stats that popped up on my radar. Continue reading
You are probably not the key person to engaging your neighborhood. Read this again so that it sinks in: you are most likely not the key to engaging your neighborhood-someone else is. Those of us who consider ourselves outgoing extroverted networkers can find this especially challenging because we want to become the relational cogs in the neighborhood. Continue reading
As you may realize our Gospel Communities with Burlington City Church are essentially the same thing as what many churches now call missional communities. As we journey, we continue to discover excellent resources from the growing missional community movement Continue reading
“What do you really do?” is a question I’m asked by someone almost every week. People know I’m a pastor/church-planter/nonprofit director, but they often want to know what this practically looks like beyond our momentary interactions.
You may already know about my obsession with venn diagrams which also carries over into how I structure my personal ministry focus:
“So you’re telling me there’s a chance?” were the first words I thought to blurt out. The doctor found my awkward sense of humor lacking: “no- I’m telling you that it’s highly improbable that you’ll ever get pregnant apart from medical intervention.” Christin and I already knew the results before our follow-up visit with Reproductive Medical Associates, so we knew this meant NO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN. Continue reading
This past week, I took a few days off to spend some quality time with two of my heroes: S and B (initials used for security purposes). I admire these two people so much for the way they courageously follow Jesus and represent Him with such humility and integrity. Continue reading
So my summer hiatus from blogging ends. Summer has been busy- not bad busy, but good busy- too busy to blog.
Here’s the rundown of the summer busyness.
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Next Monday Burlington City Church hosts its second annual Kids Camp in Burlington’s Old North End. God blessed last year’s Kids Camp and we expect more of the same this year. Continue reading
Many young men beginning the church planting journey find themselves caught in the current of excitement of a new venture. Count me as one of them- we should experience great joy when God invites us to join Him in His activity. All too often, though, we become so enamored with the vision in our minds of what God desires to build that we often miss the importance of considering the cost we’ll incur along the way. Continue reading
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