I think one of the hardest things for me is keeping the vision crystal clear in my own mind of what I am called to do as a church planter. Last night I went on a walk and just prayed, asking God to continue to formulate His vision for Epic Church and Andover [...]
In January we are going to kick off the first series in our new sermon shorts. I’m going to be putting video podcasts online each week. The first series we’re going to be doing is called “Living With No Regrets - a look at the book of Acts”. With the new year [...]
Are you bullish or bearish? This is a great question to ask when it comes to church planting. I think now is the time to be bullish! With the current financial temperature of our country and world there is no better time to be investing financially in things that matter spiritually. There are [...]
Man, the Andover Hometown Christmas was amazing! I am really impressed with the Andover Chamber of Commerce. They did a phenomenal job with this event. Epic Church ended up having 14 volunteers show up! It was a blast, thanks to all who helped pull this off! God is doing some cool things at Epic Church!
It is not an easy thing to raise money. Hah, I know this revelation probably finds you with your mouth wide open and scratching your head, but it’s true. Raising money is a hard thing to do, especially when the only thing you have to offer is a vision of what the future will [...]
I just got back from a lunch with a good friend at BCC. I was telling him how the funding that we had been hoping to get had fallen through, see this post, and how bummed out I was. He started to tell me how his kids had decided, after my last sermon, that they wanted [...]
On our trip to Wichita last week we had two cool things happen. The first: Friday night I received an email from a pastor in California named Rusty George. Rusty has heard that we are planting a church in Andover and is really excited about it. He grew up in Andover knows the need from all the [...]
So Sunday we got a Bible for Peter from one of our friends! Here is a picture of Jenni reading it to Peter. He is already asking some pretty tough questions though… For example, he just said, “hmagg ddaaaa majjj…” I think we’ve all had that thought at one point or another :)!
I was recently thinking back to the time when I didn’t know God. I knew of God, I knew of Jesus, but I was truly disconnected from Him - I didn’t have a relationship with Him. I was trying to share with some of our teenagers just how hopeless those days were. [...]
I’m not usually a blogger, but this is too funny to keep to myself, so here goes. I haven’t been sleeping very well at night, so I come out in the living room to mess around on the computer so I don’t keep Kent up with my tossing and turning. Well, last night, I finally decided [...]
Some pictures of the kidd-o’s watching the fireworks! It was such a blast - no pun intended…
This 4th we had some really good friends come down from South Dakota - Megan, Jonas & Lucy Quam. We got to hang out and shoot fireworks together! It was a blast! Jonas & Heath kind of have the same look in the last two pictures… Hah!
