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I'm the lead pastor of a great and very unconventional church - Church At The Movies, with campuses in Ronkonkoma and Mastic, NY - and I love doing what I do. We have hundreds of fellow radicals in our congregations who, like me, are committed to doing church for the unchurched. Totally apart from my church involvement, I work a few hours a week as a Weight Loss Consultant for Weight Watchers, which I thoroughly enjoy.

Friday, October 14, 2005

The French And Other Things

Here I am sitting in Charles De Gaulle Airport waiting for my flight home fron this briefest of trips to Scotlqnd for a funeral and I've worked out why the French are seldon on the same page as the rest of us. I'll type this quick in case the computer blows up, but here it is .......
THEY DON'T SPEAK THE SAME LANGUAGE!

Seriously. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to use a keyboard even - they have the letters all over the place. The question mark is where the ¨M¨should be; the ¨Z¨is in the ¨W¨spot, etc, etc. They're marching to the beat of a different drum. I was in a church that's doing that yesterday and predictably it's dying because it has lost touch with the people it is meant to be reaching. Let's take note and stay relevant.

IT'S FRIDAY - TIME TO UNVEIL OUR SUPERCOOL PERSON OF THE WEEK
This week we want to give it to someone who is not a member of our own church, but is doing a great job building God's kingdom in this area. Having worked for years to build the most happening thing around here for young people - Hearts Of Fire (if you haven't heard of it you're probably too old!!!), last month Bert Crabbe started a new church in Port Jeff Station and it's going great guns.
They have an outstanding building that they worked like dogs to fix up, their music is outrageous and Bert really is a supercool dude. Check his church out at www.truenorthchurch.net and pray they really flourish.

I ACCEPT NO BLAME FOR ANY TYPOS - THEY ARE TOTALLY THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FRENCH!