Community Partnerships

I love the way churches are working together these days. Pastors sharing ideas and getting together to make real impact in the community. Here in Lake County (IL) there is an organization that is assisting in making these connections, Catalyst helps facilitate such things as Sharefest and other connections between churches. Other social networking sites have also assisted in bringing together church leaders together.

Facebook is one of these such sites. When we first moved to Chicago, Eskai got connected to a group of church planting wives and met a church planting wife in the area. We have gotten together as couples a few times but a friendship between the husband and I has been very beneficial to me. We get together every couple of weeks to share the joys and frustrations of life, ministry and family. It helps to know that you aren’t in this alone, that there are others who are going through the same things as you are and that others are praying and supporting you (even from other local churches).

None of us is as strong as all of us and the Kingdom of God gets stronger when we reach out as One Body to make real impact for the Kingdom wherever God has planted you.

~ by mikefoster on May 28, 2009.