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Archive for June, 2009

My Parent’s 30th Wedding Anniversary

Posted in Family on June 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »

Last night we celebrated my parent’s 30th Wedding Anniversary by having a vow renewal for them with one of the pastors that helped perform the original ceremony back in 1979. It was an awesome time that just further reminded me what great parents I have! Anyways, below is the video I put together commemorating their [...]

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Interview with David Santistevan – Young Adult Ministry

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »

With this post I’m beginning something new, I will be doing on occasion, interviewing different pastors and church leaders on various topics. I recently sat down to interview David Santistevan, one of the pastors at Allison Park Church on the topic of ministering effectively to young adults. He runs Apex Young Adult Ministry at APC [...]

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God and the Pens

Posted in Christ-Inspired Thoughts, tagged , , on June 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I recently posted the following on another blog I write for on the ‘Network Pittsburgh‘ website. Below is a short excerpt (you can read the rest here). With the recent unbelievable victory of the Pittsburgh Penguins in the Stanley Cup Finals, it has me thinking, “Is God a Pens fan?” While I can’t answer that [...]

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MCM All Over CMN

Posted in MCM-Pitt, tagged , , on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

In this last week, our MCM pastors have been all over the Church Multiplication Network’s blog.  CMN is our denomination’s church planting arm and recently featured an interview with Brian Bolt, an article by Rich Jones and another interview with our fearless leader, Jeff Leake. (You can see the interviews and a portion of the [...]

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My Theology of Ministry (Part 3)

Posted in Church on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

To finish my series of posts on ‘My Theology of Ministry’, I’d like to discuss the final portion of this statement: Ministry is best done toward a community, through community, and in community. Of the three portions of this statement, pastors (and especially church planters) fail to achieve this last one most often.  The concept [...]

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My Theology of Ministry (Part 2)

Posted in Church on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

As I mentioned in my previous post, my approach to planting churches and ministry in general can be summed up in this one statement: Ministry is best done toward a community, through community, and in community. In this post, I’d like to tackle the second portion, the idea of doing ministry through community. I already [...]

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My Theology of Ministry (Part 1)

Posted in Church on June 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I’m going to take the next few posts to explain my theology of ministry.  The main concept is this:  Ministry is best done toward a community, through community, and in community. In this first post, I’ll approach the idea of doing ministry toward a community. So many churches strive to reach their community, but they [...]

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