I’m on to some exciting projects lately.  Don’t have much time to give them the proper introduction to you all that they deserve, but nonetheless, I wanted to give you just a peak into some of the things I’ve been working on lately!

An exciting venture lately has been furthering development of my Chicago Spiritual Map into a full-blown collaborative wiki!  The goal in the near future is to help incorporate others; students, professors, churches, local missionaries, summer interns and others into a city-wide project to discover what God is up to in Chicago.  The ultimate dream is to engage followers of Christ at a ground-zero level, giving them an experience in prayer-walking, spiritual mapping, and of the great mission field of the city. You can find the baby stages of this project emerging at Pray4Chicago.

Second, I’m putting together a site that will help connect other Chicago missionaries, and organic church networks.  Since I’ve been in Chicago, I’ve met dozens of church planters and emerging church planters focused on bringing the profoundly lost into friendship with God.  Some are working with poets and artists, others are sharing the gospel with Somalian refugees, still others are focused on hispanics.  This October 31-November 2 Moody Bible Institute will be hosting Niel Cole’s Greenhouse, a conference/workshop teaching the basics in organic church planting.  This might be a good time to discuss how church planters around the city might resource one another, cross-pollinate ideas and church networks, and serve the city and see God’s shalom reign!  I’ve got the url and basic files installed, but I don’t want to post more on this one just yet.

Finally, I’ve been blessed to share my faith with several at my part time job!  These friends of mine are seriously searching, and I’m praying that God reveals himself to them in a special way as we begin to meet for our first bible study!  Also, there is a new friend of ours interested in reaching out to some of her friends in another neighborhood on the south side of Chicago.  God seems to be moving lots of things at once!

It’s fun being on this journey, and I know its what I was made to do.  God bless you this weekend!

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