This week Nicole, our girls, and I traveled to Richmond, VA for Church Planters’ Boot Camp. We gathered with 73 other church planters, pastors, and lay leadership to learn the skills and concepts behind successful church planting. The “boot camp” speaks to the intensity and the discipline of the training, which matches the intensity and discipline of the work of planting a church.

It will take some time for us to process and put into practice what we’ve been learning, but we can say that it’s been very helpful. Thanks to the Atkins family, sister of one of our Prairie Sky people, for looking after our girls while Nicole and I were at the training. Church planting does not happen without generosity of many kinds! We are so grateful.