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Hi Dave

I see you are from Pa. I am from Easton.
Do you have a group for simple church?

Hi Dave,

Thank you Dave for your response and giving me some insight as to your current and past church experiences.
Sounds to me like you have a good thing going where you are and that you have been able to build good relationships within your church.
I am glad to see that you are open to find and learn about other ways of doing things that is important. The House 2 House website is a good one for information. I have just become a member on the new site, face book style, but I used to visit house2 house years ago.
Basicaly Dave I have been a believer since about 16. Raised Catholic but had a conversion experience and then atternded a house church for nine years which was a charismatic group. After doing some time with a group in Canada on several Indian reservations I came back to the States and became involved with a new church starting in Easton called the Rock Church. My wife and I stayed there for 25 years and did just about everything possible ministry wise.
Like a lot of things, much changes over time and often not for the better.
I was spiritualy dying there and I knew it for years but after building my life there it was hard to leave. Eventualy we did about 4 years ago. My desire was to return to a simplicity of church experience and to start a house church.
We did that for awhile but found little interest for the idea around here.
I travelled and attended various house church conferences and met with many of the current voices in the movement.
I had a group of men that also did a lot of prison meetings and we worked to bring a wholistic spiritual program to the prison reentry type.
Basicaly there are only about 5-6 of us which meet. We have become good friends and our time together is mostly just spending time together usualy eating meals together or working on a project.
I still hope more people will explore house church or whatever you want to call it. My wife attends a large black church occasionaly, but although I have various friends who are Pastors I am really out of the whole church scene. I visit different friends at times at church but am moving completely outside the circles. I have friends in NJ who do house church and we hang out with them occasionaly. Sorry for the long response.

Tim McLaughlin