New Prayer Card Available!

We'd love to get this in your hands to help you remember to pray for us daily or weekly. Please let me know (andy@clearviewgrace.com) how many you'd like and where to send it (them). Feel free to ask for enough to hand out to your small group!

Highlights From The Last Month or So...

God is good and continues to open doors for us in northeastern Franklin County. Here are some highlights of recent ministry opportunities:

• Seth finished his soccer season on October 13. He did well and had a lot of fun. We also connected well with families. Of special note was that we adjusted our end of season party plans (last year we tried to invite families to our home and it didn't work well). We decided to invite everyone to go to a pizza place together after the last game. 5 out of 7 families joined us for pizza and fun. This was a great chance to deepen relationships.
• We've enjoyed good connections with neighbors. Standing at the bus top together and trick-or-treating have opened doors for communication. Trish is part of a group of ladies that go out to dinner together each month.
• Trish and I enjoyed dinner with members/spouses of the local events board I am part of. This was another great opportunity to connect with people on a deeper level and share about our work with ClearView. The door was opened to discuss our work because ClearView was recognized and praised for significant involvement in community events. The board recognized and thanked us for our partnership in the Oktoberfest event.
• As room parent in Seth's class, my job is to plan 3 parties per year and act as a liaison between Seth's teacher and other families. This has been a great privilege and opportunity to get to know people in the PTO, Seth's teacher, and other parents in his class. Our first party was on 10/31 and by all accounts, it was a success. It was great to work with other parents to pull this off (I'm not crafty, have little idea about games for kids, and my idea of a healthy snack is a pretzel...so it was great to have other parents lend input and help!).
• As you know, 11/4/o8 (Election Day) was a significant day in our nation's history. ClearView handed out free Caribou Coffee at the YMCA polling location. It was exciting, for the first time, to be able to communicate to people that we meet at the Y every Sunday and invite them to join us. We had positive interaction with many people and gave out about 150 cups of coffee (around 15 gallons).
  
• This past Saturday evening (11/8), ClearView held a team time. I was thrilled at the participation of this meeting. 10 out of 11 families on our team were able to attend the meeting, there was much positive interaction, and much excitement over ClearView's vision and what God is doing. These people get it, they are plugging in, and we anticipate a great movement of God together. GOD IS BRINGING US THE RIGHT PEOPLE to accomplish the vision of beginning a new church.

Thanks for praying... God is working!

We're Still Alive!

Hey friends and prayer partners,
Sorry it has been almost a month since our last post. It's difficult to explain...but I've been so busy that this is one important area that has fallen by the wayside. Thanks to several that have inquired to see if this is still an active blog and if we're still in business! :)

We're here... working hard...continuing to make inroads into our community and build our launch team for ClearView. God has been good and continues to open doors and build our team. We're thankful for steady progress and what we believe is an exciting future.

I'll try and do a better job of posting regular news and prayer bites... thanks for being faithful to pray with us. God is working through your prayers!