I need a website. It's today's business card. Problem is, I don't know how to do HTML, but I'm encouraging my 11 year old son, Josiah, to learn. I'd throw in a trip to the Red Robin if he could do a website for me. He says he'll keep the offer in mind.
So, the other day I "myspaced" an old friend of mine who was a tall, lenky, bright kid and about seven years younger than I. He was full of charisma. I hadn't had contact with him for at least 10 years. By some cosmic roll of the dice, he shoots me an email about 5 minutes later. We exchange numbers and talk for awhile. He's attending a church in Redmond, however, asks how he can help with the new church plant called "Emmaus Church." After sifting through the cursory events of our lives, I come to find out he does web design...how odd.
My friend, Sean (we will call him), proceeds to inform me that he can get a domain name pretty easily, which will be made public soon (I had been thinking for months and not come up with a satisfactory domain name and emails me the perfect one in about 30 seconds), and will host the site for free. All of this takes place over lunch at the palacial cafeteria at Microsoft. To make things even better, Bill Gates will actually make a donation to our non-profit church because Sean is volunteering five hours a month! So, at the end of the day, Microsoft is paying me to let Sean do a website for Emmaus Church!
This church planting stuff is a challenge and when I was starring at how high the mountains were, Jesus made himself present to me on the plateau at Microsoft. Who knows what the future holds, but as long as God continues to bring off-the-map kinda people into my path like Sean, I'll know God is in this whole thing.
So, the other day I "myspaced" an old friend of mine who was a tall, lenky, bright kid and about seven years younger than I. He was full of charisma. I hadn't had contact with him for at least 10 years. By some cosmic roll of the dice, he shoots me an email about 5 minutes later. We exchange numbers and talk for awhile. He's attending a church in Redmond, however, asks how he can help with the new church plant called "Emmaus Church." After sifting through the cursory events of our lives, I come to find out he does web design...how odd.
My friend, Sean (we will call him), proceeds to inform me that he can get a domain name pretty easily, which will be made public soon (I had been thinking for months and not come up with a satisfactory domain name and emails me the perfect one in about 30 seconds), and will host the site for free. All of this takes place over lunch at the palacial cafeteria at Microsoft. To make things even better, Bill Gates will actually make a donation to our non-profit church because Sean is volunteering five hours a month! So, at the end of the day, Microsoft is paying me to let Sean do a website for Emmaus Church!
This church planting stuff is a challenge and when I was starring at how high the mountains were, Jesus made himself present to me on the plateau at Microsoft. Who knows what the future holds, but as long as God continues to bring off-the-map kinda people into my path like Sean, I'll know God is in this whole thing.
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