Exciting Movement...

Sorry it has been soooo long between posts. We've been busy prepping for a busy ministry year and preparing our home for baby #3! God is good and life has a definite air of excitement as we anticipate what God has in store for our family and ministry in 2008.

Some GREAT things to report (please give a big shout-out to God):

• Several weeks ago I was invited to share about our ministry with an adult ABF (Sunday School class) at the Grace Brethren Church of Columbus (Polaris area). In essence, this is our grandmother church (GBC of Columbus helped begin Northwest Chapel decades ago AND Trish spent some of her most formative years in their youth ministry) and we have been discussing avenues for partnership with them over the last few months. So, we were very thankful for this opportunity to share with this fine group of Christ-followers. Thankfully, the group responded well to our work with inquiries about how to help in our work and pray. One key prayer item...As God would have it, at least 5 families present in this class live within a few miles of us! Please pray that God would build our team...perhaps some of these people or others they might refer us to might be part of God's provision.

• That same Sunday night, our family shared about our ministry with Northwest Chapel's Awana children. This was a FUN night and an exciting opportunity to talk with children about what a missionary is and they fact that we need many missionaries right here in Columbus. We're glad to be on the Northwest Chapel team and so thankful for Jan Bowman and the Awana staff. They have recruited many children and families to pray for us.

• God has provided VERY GOOD interaction with the YMCA of Gahanna staff. Last week I had a great meeting with the Executive Director there, Chris Angelatta. Chris has communicated that there is an open door for ClearView to rent space from the YMCA on Sunday mornings and even that the YMCA desires to colloborate with ClearView on projects to love people in practical ways. What an amazing blessing from God. The YMCA has 12,000 members (that is not a typographical error!) and would help us get the word out about ClearView to their membership. Wow! Needless to say, I left this meeting stunned and amazed by what God is doing. Please thank God for Chris, the YMCA, and pray that God would bring fruit from our partnership.

• We've had very positive reaction to our initial efforts to invite teams to come to the area to help us with ministry projects this year. We're in discussions with 5 or 6 groups from numerous churches about how we could partner together on prayer walks, canvassing efforts, or servant evangelism projects. If you or a group you're a part of our interested in a ministry trip to the New Albany area, please let me know (andy@clearviewgrace.com). Please pray that we can secure many groups to fill up our schedule with hundreds of people that can help us touch thousands of people with Jesus' love in 2008.

Thanks for praying!