A New Church - A New Beginning

Friends:

Its been a while now since I've written, but I have great news to share. First of all, my new church in the Seattle area - Light For Life - has its first website up (www.lightforlifenewchurch.org). We will host our first worship service where we invite the public on Easter (April 12th). We have also found a new full time facility in Redmond, WA.

We now worship every Sunday at 10:30 am here -

The Redmond Senior Center

8703 160th Ave NE

Redmond, WA 98052

(Online at: www.redmond.gov).

The other great news is that in August we are planning to run our first small group on BOGC (a link to "Be of Good Cheer" can be found to the right on this site). Another congregation in Rochester, MI is planning on using the book to fuel their small group this spring as well:

The Oak Arbor Church

495 Oak Arbor Circle West

Rochester, MI 40306

(Online at: www.oakarbor.org)

Blessings to you all for a healthy, happy, and hopeful Easter Season!

In His Love -

Your Friend,

Ethan

Three Buildings Later...

Friends:

Well, after starting a new organization in our backyard as "Light for Life New Church", we've now tried three different buildings -

Two in Shoreline:

1) Spartan Recreation Center

2) Richmond Highlands Recreation Center

(Look them up on shorelinewa.gov)

One on Renton:

Carco Theatre

(Look it up on rentonwa.gov)

We have run demographic/psychographic/spiritual formation studies on 5 metropolitan Seattle areas (through Percept Group). Now we are bringing the results of those studies together with what we want in a worship space to find a consistent rental facility in the right location by Spring of 2009.

As our kickoff small group study once we launch publicly, we expect to use "Be of Good Cheer" for a full month followed by a celebration Sunday. Stay tuned to this blog and to ncchurchplant.blogspot.com for further details.

Thanks for your support!

Yours,
Pastor Ethan

And So It Begins...

Friends:

I haven't written here for awhile because we've been in transition, moving from Sarver PA to Seattle WA to start a new church.

This Sunday (August 10th) we had our first worship service together as Light for Life - a new church plant project in Shoreline, WA.  We had 42 people in attendance and the energy was wonderful!  Any time you start something new its a risk, but God calls us to "risk on the side of love" for the growth of His kingdom.  So, as we embark on a revision of BOGC, a new church, and a new beginning in the Seattle area - we want to (in the words of John Mayer) "do it with our hearts wide open."

Thank you for your support, your prayers and your contributions to the effort (whatever form they may take).  We will have a website for the project up in another month or two and in the meantime check back here for information on Be of Good Cheer and other related book and church updates.

Blessings on the Journey!

Pastor Ethan