A Perfect Present

What a fantastic surprise this Sunday! Thank you for all of your kind and encouraging words as we celebrate two years of being in community with one another. It is such an honor to serve as your pastor, and to represent Journey wherever I go. Our family is grateful to be part of the Journey family, and to call this place of faith our home.

To all of you who contributed to the donation to the Grameen Bank in my honor, I want to give my deep thanks. What better way to celebrate than to support one of the many places that reminds me- and all of us- that the Spirit of God is active and moving in this world!


For those of you who may not know, the Grameen Bank is the pioneer organization behind the now-flourishing microcredit industry. Its founder, economist Muhammad Yunus, threw every banking rule and boundary he knew to the wind and decided instead to create a bank that would serve those who needed help the most- those in poverty. Needless to say, the whole world was surprised when his bank, which gave loans to mothers of five in small villages with no education and no credit history, garnered a higher loan repayment rate than any traditional bank had ever seen.

It should not surprise those of us who follow the God who is always doing new things. When new life and grace are offered to willing hearts, the result is always astounding. And the world is always a more beautiful place because of it.

Thank you again for your thoughtfulness, support and love. I love all of you dearly, and I look with great eagerness to the open horizon that lies before us.