I’m still a green blogger, so I didn’t make any time on our whirlwind trip around the country to update.  So here goes:

We had a good trip.  Got to spend a couple of hours with my sister and brother in law and my nieces and nephews in Jersey on Wednesday and Thursday. 

As usual, the guys at The Journey did a great job with the evangelism and small groups seminars on Thursday in NYC.  I feel a lot better about what we’re doing and got some great ideas as to how to generate and maintain a culture of evangelism at Iron City Church from Day One.

Thursday night and Friday were pretty tough – straight driving through to the ATL.  Got to spend Friday night and some time on Saturday with our friends Jeff and Leslie Mousa in Douglasville.  Jeff and I are in the church planting school at West Ridge Church together.  We had class on Saturday and then Amber, TJ and I headed out to our old stomping ground near Savannah.

Its been 5 months since we came to Pittsburgh and there were some wierd emotions going on when we returned.  I left there pretty burned out (mostly of my own doing) and our return brought back a lot of memories – some good, some not so good.  We stayed with our friends the Jenkins.  I spoke at Crossroads Church Sunday morning for my friend George Pabst.  They really have something special going there — I’m waiting to hear the reports as God brings explosive growth to this church because they’re being faithful with what they’ve got.

Another 12 hours of driving (TJ is the best 8-month old traveler I’ve ever seen!) and we got home last night.  A good night’s sleep in my own bed and here we are.