On the first day of December I will begin my church planting venture with Orchard Group by meeting with our church planting team in urban Buffalo, New York.
It is somewhat ironic that my new mission will begin with a day in Buffalo because my first ever ministry experience in the Northeast was in . . . Buffalo.
During the summer of 1991 I was the summer intern for a church in the suburbs just east of Buffalo. I was supposed to intern at a church in southeastern Indiana, but a last-minute change of plans landed me in Buffalo instead. It was more than a coincedence as my experience that summer planted within me the seeds that would grow into a passion for the Northeast.
Also somewhat ironic is this: During my summer in suburban Buffalo I lived with a family who had small children. One of the kids was a boy named Sean, who must have been less than five-years old at the time. I recently found out that Sean, who is now in his twenties, is serving on the urban church planting staff team for the new church in Buffalo - the same one I will be meeting with on my first real day of working with Orchard Group! It should be a very interesting, meaningful, and "full-circle" kind of day on December 1.
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