help a Veteran, grab a chainsaw

The Torres Family needs our help and prayers.  Their property in Ellerslie Place was an impact point for the tornado that came through.

We will have folks out there this Saturday to serve but if you or somebody you know can come for even an hour or two to help it would be greatly appreciated.  Ken Himes will also be out there this Friday around noon if you want to help on Friday.

We have people running chainsaws and need other folks to pull limbs away as they are cut and drag and stack them in burn piles.

Gloves and boots and long sleeves are encouraged.  Please prayerfully consider sharing this with folks you know who might help us help them.

Cesar Torres is an Iraqi War Veteran and had to leave yesterday to lead some training at Ft. Hood, TX.  His wife (Alba) and teenage son (Joel) are here without him and we promised him we’d stand in the gap and stay with them until we got their property squared away.

Directions:

Take US 27 (Manchester Expressway) to Ellerslie and then 315 toward Talbotton (First light after 4 lanes become 2 lanes).  About a mile up on the left is Ellerslie Place – take the second entrance

Take a left on Ossahatchie and go up past the mailbox marked as 1352 Ossahatchie turn left just past that (The street sign is missing).

Go down a block and the next left is Bent Tree Drive and the house is on the left. #104 Bent Tree Drive.  The Torres Family.

We start at 9:00 on Saturday. Come when you can leave when you have to.

are you in a battle right now?

Are you in a battle of any kind?

Is there a mountain in front of you that you have no idea how you’re going to get past?

Is your marriage in trouble?

Do you lay awake in bed at night worried?

What are you fearful of?

Respond below.  Write it down – not the issue itself – but rather, what it is you’re feeling.  Are you feeling God or is He nowhere to be found?  What are you doubting?  Is there hopelessness, despair, lostness?  Describe it.

Your answers will remain anonymous and won’t be posted on this site.  I’m gathering these answers for future reference in our discussion of DIRT.

Great music, great entertainment …

Friday September 21, 2018  6:30pm

GOLDEN MIC CHRISTIAN TALENT NIGHT

A night of wholesome entertainment and talent sharing within the body of Christ.

Get to know, listen and sing along to the songs of the gifted and talented brothers and sisters from our local and surrounding churches.

Located at 1342 17th Street, Columbus, Ga. at The Fort Church

Doors open at 6:30pm. $5.00 per person admission will be received.

For more information email Vic Feliciano at goldenmic2018@gmail.com for details.

(All proceeds to benefit Brown Bag of Columbus ministry)

manschool tomorrow!

Manschool resumes tomorrow morning!  We cannot wait to resume gathering as Tribe to fight for LIFE.  We’re going to go after it hard this fall.  We will push.  It’ll be a little uncomfortable at times but it will be real and if you will commit to invest in the process, I believe you will be blessed.

If you have never tried it, come!

6am – 7:30 am in the Milgen Room.

Summary of last fall

Goliath – fall summary

The link above contains the slides from this morning.  I will put up another post about the “Hope in the coming Kingdom” in a few days.

It was SO GOOD to be back in Tribe this am!  Glory to God in the Highest!

 

Funeral Service for RJ Cummings

The service for Carver’s RJ Cummings will be held this Saturday at 11am at Christ Community.  RJ graduated last year and played linebacker for Carver as well as basketball.  He was heading to Iowa to play football this fall but tragically, he was struck down by a bullet last Friday night.

The Carver family is in mourning.  We’ve been with the team this week, speaking to the team as a group and talking a good bit with Coach Arnold.

If you would like to support the Carver team and RJ’s family, please try to attend the service on Saturday.

Our work at Carver is never done.  We’ve only scratched the surface.  There is so much more we can be doing to impact these kids for Christ.  RJ’s death, while tragic, is also an opening for God to move upon the lives of this team.  In the human sense, his loss is a waste of a life but no tragedy is ever wasted with God.  He always moves.  He is sovereign.  He IS good.

Let’s support them on Saturday.

Remembering Lonny Arrington

Our brother, Lonny Arrington – the man I affectionately called “Coach” – passed away yesterday after fighting a brave fight against cancer.  Lonny taught religion and coached multiple sports in his 39-year career at Pacelli.  When I was a kid at cross-town rival Brookstone, “Coach” was the leader of our archrival.  He led some impressive teams and was a great competitor.  We had Joe Sparks at Brookstone.  Coach Sparks had a massive, generational impact on me and all the kids that played sports at Brookstone.  I still tangibly feel the impact of Joe Sparks in my life and I know that Lonny Arrington had the same profound impact on generations of kids at Pacelli.  Lonny was “every bit” of a Joe Sparks and Joe was “every bit” of a Lonny.  Those men sacrificially poured their lives into kids to make them better men and women.  At a small private school, he had to coach nearly every sport.  He had some great basketball teams and coached baseball.  His greatest success was as a girl’s softball coach.  His teams won 8 region championships and made 12 state playoff appearances.

Lonny was a key member of our Manschool Tribe – always present, always encouraging and deeply touched by the power of our community.  You need to know this — he LOVED Manschool and missed us terribly and was inspired to start a similar work at his new church in North Carolina.  Sadly, cancer stopped that dream but Lonny is now in the Kingdom rejoicing for a life “well-lived”.  We were blessed by his presence, missed his impact when he moved to NC and now hurt for our loss.  A memorial for Lonny will be held at Christ Community sometime in July.  Please remember Barbara and the family in your prayers.