edging closer

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ryan russell
on December 7, 2008
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well… i can officially say we are getting closer to making a city choice for our next phase of life & ministry. (i know that isn’t quite a certainty.) I spent tuesday through friday am in Seattle with Brent from Orchard Group. Since Seattle would be new territory for Orchard, he & Paul Williams met with George [CEA] & Jim [E. 91st St.] developing a potential partnership for this new work. The 5 of us plus Dean sat and talked Wed. morning about ministry, churches and the area. After that Brent & I (some with Dean too) spent the better part of 2 days looking at the city neighborhoods for potential locations.

Jen & I have been praying for God’s peace & direction. We began this journey with a real desire to be open to where he would have us to go. The only real parameters that we put on our prayers were that:

  1. it would be out of the desert
  2. it would not be in the mid-west
  3. it would be a city in need of new churches
we will spend more time in prayer, but we are edging closer to landing on Seattle. We still plan to move at the end of the school year and hope to have the whole summer to explore our new land before the kids start their new schools and we buckle down to the new church biz.
keep checking back here; i hope to have some updates on the partners involved and the people who will be joining us in this endeavor. 

3 Responses to “edging closer”

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  1. 1 john chandler
    December 8, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    So what parts of the city have you been looking at?

  2. 2 ryan russell
    December 10, 2008 at 9:55 pm

    Upper & Lower Queen Anne but when we move we will take at least the whole summer & maybe fall for to do research, live and land on an exact neighborhood.

  3. 3 Kevin Goehring
    December 11, 2008 at 10:22 pm

    I’m praying the Lord will lead you to the right area in Seattle.

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