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I just returned from 3 days in the bush country of Burkina Faso. West Ridge Church has adopted an unreached people group in the bush called the Pougli. The Pougli are an amazing group of people, but extremely primitive. They are Animist – which means that they worship nature, witchcraft, and spirits. Most of these [...]
January 27
After a full day (and some) of travel, we have finally arrived Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Africa! We left Atlanta Monday around 6:00 PM and landed in Paris 8 hours later. I’ve been to the Paris airport twice now but have never been outside the building. I hear Paris is a really cool city, IF I [...]
January 3
This morning was Vision Sunday at West Ridge Church. This is one of my favorite Sundays in the year, because we get to celebrate what happened in the last year and I get to talk to the church about where we believe God is leading us in the new year. The following is a brief [...]
December 10
This Sunday at West Ridge Church is going to be messy. I don’t want to give anything away, but my visual Sunday should be very interesting. You don’t want to miss it! I hope you’ll join us for week #2 of this series – Messy Little Christmas. Last week, we talked about Genesis 3 and [...]
October 26
Today I had the opportunity to sit down with our missionary in Burkina Faso, Africa, Pete Brokup, and get a report on how things are going on the ground. Many of you had the chance to hear Pete share yesterday at West Ridge. I’m so excited to report that in the last year and half [...]
February 2
I’m not sure exactly what’s going on in the church world right now but it seems like every pastor I talk to is experiencing significant growth and life change in their church right now. West Ridge is no exception. The last several weeks have been amazing and slammed. • Yesterday morning, we had our highest [...]
January 15
My weeks are usually very stacked with meetings, study, meetings, answering e-mails, meetings, returning phone calls, and did I say meetings? This week has been one of the busiest weeks that I’ve had in a long time. Because of that, I have not been able to send out a weekend wrap-up, which is usually my [...]
November 27
The food has been eaten, cleaned up, and put away (I think Amy may be bringing out the leftovers). The Detroit Lions have lost another Thanksgiving Day football game. My boys are playing Monopoly with their grandparents. And I’m sitting in the kitchen enjoying it all (except the beating the Lions just took). I love [...]
