The Movement...

First off, let me correct myself over my last post. The Movement takes place in Vienna, not Ravenna...

Second, what a Movement it is. I've never entered such a welcoming and loving atmosphere in my entire life. At a service I planned to attend only to observe a friends baptism, I did so much more. I felt led and called by the words of Movement Leader, Doug Garasic, so much that I publicly proclaimed my own rededication and was re-baptized on the spot! The Lord has MIGHTY plans for Doug and all of his people out at the Movement. I'll post pictures up when I have them. To find out more about the Movement, go to the website depicted in the above photo or checkout their Facebook page here.

SOMA First Friday. Tailgate Party Edition.

Sorry for this post being later than promised, but my phone died last night when I was writing so I had to re-write it this morning.

Anyone who wasn't able to make it out to Austintown last night missed out on corn-hole, minute to win it style games, and overall good clean fellowship and worship. Next time everyone ages 18-30 needs to be there! For info on SOMA and times/locations of services click here.

One of the reasons this group exists is that we've noticed a debacle in the church regarding young adults. No church in the area seems to have an adequate program for young adults for two completely different reasons. Either the church has so many young adults that the entire church is actually organized and ran by the young adults themselves, OR the church doesn't have enough young adults attending to even put together any type of group for them to fit into. Our goal is to address this issue by making a multi-church, cross-denominational group of young adults who grow in unity with each-other and then return to serve in their own home churches...

So, this group is all about the unified Body and I think the truest example of the unity this group is setting up is our worship team. Every member of this team attends a different church, yet we all recognize that we have one common goal... loving God with all out hearts, souls, minds, and strength and loving others as ourself, declaring His Word and living it every day, and glorifying Him with our offering of worship through music.

This team is made up of Dan McConnell, Youth Pastor at Rock Of Grace Church in Kinsman, playing guitar and singing for SOMA, Sarah Yoder, Worship Leader at Seeking God's Glory Intl. Ministries, singing and playing keys for SOMA, Andrew Weaver, bassist for the worship team and young adult leader at Highway Tabernacle in Austintown, playing bass for SOMA, and myself, the drummer and a vocalist for the worship team and young adult leader at Niles Christian Assembly, playing drums for SOMA.

I know I already said this, but seriously, ages 18-30, be sure to come out and see what this group has going on! It's amazing.

In other news, tonight I go out to Ravenna to experience a new Christian fellowship group called "the Movement" where I get to see one of my close friends, Neil Neuberger, get baptized! Hallelujah!

I'll post about that either tonight or tomorrow morning.

Up and running again!

9/10/11 12:19pm 9lbs 12oz
Elijah Michael Conrad was born.

This "little" guy is the reason we've been so relaxed in our posting.

In other news, I've taken on some more responsibility within the Body by becoming active in a new young adult ministry that you can check out here.

We're having a gathering tonight, so I'll post later and tell how it went!