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Dear beloved Brother Jim and Family in Christ,Holy greetings to you in the wonderful name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.I am glad to see you and write this email and say that I and my congregation keep praying for you, your family and ministry that are going to help the many God's servants. I also call on you in the name of Jesus Christ to pray for me and my ministry that has taken place in tribal area here in S. India and kindly remember us in your love and compassion for this ministry. With great eagerness I look forward to your kind suport and generosity. Sending you the priestly blessing from the Bible; it is for you and for your whole house: May “The LORD bless you and keep you; The LORD makes His face shine upon you, and be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance upon you, And give you peace.”’ Numbers 6:24-26 this blessing of the almighty God may by 2009 on you and to your team members, every hour, each new day and week in this year... I have been serving the Lord in remote villages & Tribal areas and faithfully serving the Lord and no any organization behind us to encourage, only we have been looking unto Jesus who is our provider so we would like to work with you. Please introduce my ministry to your Church believers and visit our place and minister with us through your ministry. We are heartily inviting you to stand with us and to minister with us to encourage our people and pastors. We have Children home with 45 poor Orphans and have 50 co-pastors in our ministry so they are along with me to go and reach more jungle and tribal areas where Jesus not yet proclaimed. We all remembered your family & Team members in our prayers and my family, co-pastors and our Home Children are joins with me to convey our best wishes to you all. Thank you so much
Yours faithfully in His service
Pastor P. Raja Sekhar
http://jcim2008.webs.com/

Thanks for the hello. Feel free to "borrow" my tag line if you want! Welcome to Simple Church. Not much activity on here but lots of great people I've met so far.

Jim,

I know this may be a bit far for you to drive, but a few organic churches in Plano, Arlington and Keller areas are planning an area wide Organic Church picnic for May at a park in Arlington. We are looking at either Sunday May 17th or Sunday May 24th. We would love to have you, Sue and anyone else from your group join with us.

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Hi Jim - you are part of the Body of Christ and you belong to Him. You don't need to "fit-in" with any man-made category. Sounds like your group really interacts with Jesus and allows Him to "open the eyes of your hearts" so you can see what He is saying and doing. The intercession for hurricane victims sounds great. There are many different types of house churches in DFW and we have a wide variety of meeting formats, worship styles and personalities. I'm glad Jesus made us all different and together we can express His wisdom.

I'll keep the DFW group posted on details of the area wide picnic. We are leaning toward May 24th or May 31st at this point.

Yes I share your respect for the Baptists in their commitment to the Word of God and to evangelism. That's great that the people in your group are on the same page and encouraging you to "go for it!" That is one of the great things about organic churches is they can be small enough for people to really agree wholeheartedly on a few things.

Jim: Unfortunately, with four little ones that is a bit too far to drive. Please let me know if you hear of anything in our area. Thanks!

Jim:

Thanks for getting back to me. Let's see...we are just getting started in all of this. I am currently reading Pagan Christianity and am about to start reading Reimagining Christianity. I have been watching videos and reading tons of material online about house churches so I think I have a pretty good grasp now on the basic dynamics. Frank and I plan to attend the house2house conference at the Hyatt in September.

Our kiddos are 8, 7, 4, and 6 months and are homeschooled so are pretty well behaved. We are definitely interested in having the older ones join us for our meetings. I think around 5 years old is a good age and younger if the children are not off the wall.

The primary issue for us is that Frank's schedule is crazy. Wednesday nights are best for us right now. As far as format, I think we're thinking free-flowing, spirit-led, every member functioning meetings with no set agenda and no one "leader." I think asking a new member to teach or share each week is a good plan to start but that time should be participatory and not monologue oriented. Let me give you my email and we can chat more about our journey and yours!