I had lunch today with my good friend, Paul Sorensen, one of the Pastors at Community Church of Joy where I also served for 22 years. Paul has now stepped into the role of Lead Pastor, overseeing the congregation of Joy while Senior Pastor Walt Kallestad oversees the greater ministry of Joy including its various other entities. Paul recently finished up a 4 month sabbatical. He did some traveling, studying, dieting, and working out. He looks great and is really excited about the new things God is up to at Joy.
We did some dreaming together about how Grace and Joy can continue to be partners in mission and ministry. One concrete way is for Paul to be a part of the Lake Pleasant Task Force. The LPTF is made up of people from American Lutheran, Peace Lutheran, and Grace. Our common vision is to start new churches together. It will be great to have Joy at the table.
It really was great to sit and chat for awhile--two midlife guys, eating salads and drinking bottled water, still excited about following Jesus and serving congregations with people excited about the same!
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It's always great to see people from the "family" and it's great to hear that Grace and Joy will continue to work together.
That's great news.
With Paul's experiences in Denmark and the German flavour I brought to Grace it seems that there might be hope for Christianity in the U.S. ;-)
By the way: Emergent Germany started yesterday. This will be quite exciting: www.emergent-deutschland.de
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