TOGETHER WITH YOU, we're bringing people together in Rockwood to ensure that no one is invisible and that everyone has access to food, freedom, and forgiveness.
TOGETHER WITH YOU, we envision Rockwood becoming a community of holistic flourishing where people are becoming followers of Jesus, and where everyone has the opportunity to earn, learn, and belong.
Two HAPPY things to pray about:
1) Our kids/grandkids who live in Scotland (1st photo above: Kendra, Steve, Phoebe, Rhea, and Luke; 2nd photo: Kyle and Olga) are coming to visit us this summer! All of us will be together for the first time since 2017.For a family that truly enjoys being with each other, that is a long time!
2) A long-time supporter and close friend has offered to support an opportunity I have day-dreamed about for at least a couple of years now. More details later but I can tell you now that, God willing, next year (May or September), we will hold the 2024 GREECE Discipleship Summit! The first ever of its kind (for us), we will bring together refugees who came to Jesus and/or were discipled in Athens for a time of mutual encouragement, sharing, praying, and teaching about being a disciple and making disciples! We haven’t been able to keep in touch with everyone but we are currently reaching out to about 30 former refugees we knew in Athens (as first choice invitees). If some are not able to make it, we know of others. My friends and former teammates Nader Mohajer and Themis Sirinides are helping plan and organize it. We are getting enthusiastic responses to invitations, and believing there are many who desperately need encouragement as they continue to follow Jesus.
Two DIFFICULT things to pray about:
1) Scott has been in a “mentoring relationship” with a kid here (“H”) for 9 1/2 years. It has been both good and not good. Last week it dissolved (involving too many details to go into in this format). Please pray for “H”, that he meets the Lord and changes the direction he is currently headed. He turns 18 next month.
2) Michelle and Jereby (mentioned in previous updates) desperately need prayer.I cannot give details, only to say they need marital, physical, and mental health MIRACLES. Thank you for continuing to pray for them!
The beautiful people seated around this table are going through an intensive 6-month discipleship training with Scott. In the NON-intensive, regular, 1-on-1 version that takes a year, you go over the material with your disciple one week, and the next week you do something “relational” (serve together somewhere, go bowling, go out for coffee, play a game, etc.), and follow that pattern for about a year. The idea is that discipleship is about building relationships, not just “information transfer.”
But since we are doing the intensive training (training the trainers), we go over the material for 6 weeks and then go out and do something “fun/informal/relational”. This photo was taken 2 weeks ago at Dave and Buster’s where we ate good food and played fun games together.
These men and women (all from our church) have made an additional commitment.In addition to going through this training and then discipling at least one person (1-on-1) when they finish, they are forming the CORE Discipleship Team for our local faith family (asischurch.com). This means that we will continue to meet monthly for the purpose of praying and discussing how we can further foster a CULTURE of DISCIPLESHIP in our church.
Because of your vital partnership, through prayer and/or financial investments, we are able (together with you) to disciple these who will disciple others, who will disciple others, etc. THANK YOU!
THANK YOU FOR PARTNERING WITH US IN THE GOSPEL THROUGH YOUR PRAYERS AND/OR FINANCIAL INVESTMENTS! WE APPRECIATE YOU!
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