Hurricanes and Neighborhoods

Man, I love living on the coast.  This is just plain crazy.  The girls have evacuated north to the Woodlands and Graysen and I are in Snyder, Texas.  I am working with a church here as they transition to neighborhood small groups.  It's crazy.

The senior pastor at FBC, Snyder had a new baby this week and so he asked me to go ahead and preach Sunday morning.  It should be fun.  This is the same church I did Family Camp for last month.  It also happens to be the church I spent my high school years attending.  I owe the church a lot.

I spoke a little to a group last night about my journey to neighborhood.  Today was a great day because I got to hang out with their senior staff and talk about neighborhood.  I talked more than I probably needed to, but they got me going!  I love this journey that they are on.  I am extremely curious as to how the model of neighborhood is going to play out in a rural town.  It's really interesting that in rural communities don't want to be known so much and in urban/suburban communities people long to be known.  One of the things we have done is attempted to capture some of the rural community feel of connection and implant it into the suburban context of our church.  Our implementation isn't always the way we want it to be, but the we are striving to be more connected to those around us.  I can't wait to see how it all plays out.

Anyway, the rest of the weekend is sort of crazy, so I may not post again until next week. By then, Ike will have passed over our home and hopefully left it in tact.  After a day like today and a night like last night, I can't wait to get back to my neighborhood though!