Coming out of Community Makeover I get several common questions about how to pull together 80 churches, 700 projects, and 7,000 volunteers. The most common question is “How does all that happen?” In other words what is the leadership trick to pulling off a begin event. I’m not sure there is any one trick, and [...]

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Acts 2 tells us that the early church broke bread from house to house. That means there was lots of coffee, brownies, and perhaps an occasional Falafel being served. At least that is how we’ve come to interpret it in our churches. As small groups and house churches meet there can often be as much [...]

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For the third summer we are gearing up for an event called, Community Makeover. This is a once a year catalyst event of churches serving their community in a variety of different ways. It is the largest event on the calendar for a non-profit that I direct called, Engage Atlanta. This non-profit was started by [...]

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There are a ton of issues facing the Metro Atlanta Community. Hundreds of homes still need help from the floods that hit Metro Atlanta in 2009. Many are unemployed and need encouragement. We have families of service people at home holding down the fort, while their loved ones serve us abroad. School systems and counties [...]

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So back to the blog. I’ve been storing up some things I want to share so brace yourself over the next few days. Both of you! Recently, I have had something brought to my attention in whole new ways. I knew this instinctively, but it’s being confirmed all over again. Many people that don’t know [...]

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We would like to invite churches from around the Metro area to partner with Engage Atlanta and Samaritan’s Purse to join us in reconstructing homes impacted by last September’s floods. The need is immense. We have hundreds of families that we have already been in contact with who literally had their entire homes ‘gutted’. Many [...]

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The past four weeks have been an absolute roller coaster. We have seen homes completely demolished, and we have seen neighbors and Christ-followers serve one another on a whole new level. From the very moment that we first became a Red Cross Distribution site, a center that FEMA was referring people to…from the time my [...]

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One of the best decisions leaders made about this Community Makeover was to put everyone in one color shirt. This year everyone was in RED. I picked the color, so I apologize if it didn’t fit your skin tone. One of the purposes of this Community Makeover is to change some of the impressions people [...]

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One of the lessons of this Community Makeover weekend is what is truly possible when someone allows themselves to slow down and get involved with what their eyes have been opened to. If you live in Paulding and West Cobb and journeyed on Hwy. 92 you have probably seen him. Most likely, he has waved [...]

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