The Move

Christ's Church for Brooklyn has met in our home since January. Every Sunday night, our living room has filled with eager adventurers willing to give this church start-up a chance. The plan was to originally rent a space on March 27, Easter Sunday, and make a more public declaration of our presence.

At that point, Laura and I knew of Ira's condition and knew that going public with the church plant would be difficult. We asked our supporting church, Manhattan Church of Christ, and our church planting sisters and brothers if we could hold off on the public launch and instead, continue to meet in our home until things settled down. Everyone was more than gracious in hearing our request. I gave this short update at the Manhattan Church in late February. We've been in our house ever since.

Until this Sunday. Because Ira is now living in the living room, because there have been several Sundays that we are too big for our apartment, because it's time, we are moving to a rented, public space. We're all excited about this. We'll be meeting in the local YWCA whose mission is to "eliminate racism and empower women".

The YWCA's mission is not much different from our's, Christ's Church for Brooklyn: we want to eliminate barriers socially and spiritually hoping that people will be empowered to live life to it's fullest in the name of Jesus Christ. So it seems an appropriate place to meet, huh?

My prayer, my hope for this church is that it will become a church for Brooklyn. A church the community can count on. A church the community can come to know as a welcoming church and not a threatening church.

Please pray for Christ's Church for Brooklyn as we hope to bring Good News to Brooklyn.