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After working for Habitat for Humanity for five months I have been asked to join the staff of Wieuca Road Baptist Church. WRBC is a prominent CBF church in the Buckhead area of Atlanta. My wife and I started attending WRBC soon after we relocated to Atlanta. We were impressed, and a bit surprised, with the amazing community we experienced there. After I approached the Missions Committee about the possibility of supporting my church plant in L5P, the pastor approached me about the possibility of helping WRBC start an alternative worship experience in the Buckhead area as well. That seemed fair to me, I mean with synchronized backscratching and what not. A few months later I was floored when he informed me that the Personnel Committee wanted to interview me for a full-time staff position.

At the interview I was candid about my calling in ministry and the type of ministry I was moved to start. I shared my love of beer and blue jeans and that I had no intentions of being a traditional Baptist minister. To my surprise, the Committee extend an offer to join Wieuca's staff. That means salary, a Cadillac health and retirement plan, a con-ed budget and full-funding for trinitas.

"Missional Community" is a new concept for WRBC. Baptists have traditionally compartmentalized missions as naming a function of the church rather than describing its essential nature. I am enjoying the teaching opportunities that emerge when people ask me what missional community means. My job will be to facilitate missional living amongst our members in our community. This means I will be the point-person for all of the local ministries WRBC supports. I will be working to help our members become more active in these opportunities for service. Additionally I will be organizing and leading all of WRBC's mission trips. My first trip will be at the end of January to assist in the rebuilding process of many homes in Biloxi destroyed or damaged by hurricanes Katrina and Rita. I am in the process of planning other trips in the future.

At WRBC I will also be working to equip our community to get out of the posh serenity of our massive church building and get involved in peoples lives. We will be working this year to launch emergentish church services in L5P and Buckhead. Lastly, I will be helping to coordinate the Singles Ministry at WRBC. This should be a busy year for me, but I can't express how excited I am to be working in an area where my passions lie.

Thanks a bunch to all of you who prayed for Abby and me as we transitioned from Princeton to Atlanta. Peace.

Coordinator for Missional Community

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