I'm Off To Houston, Texas!!!

Our Beeson schedule kicks off the new year with a trip to Houston from Thursday to Monday. These days are packed with meetings and services. It looks like an excellent trip and I am looking forward to going. Here is the schedule:

Thursday
6am - Leave for Cincinatti airport
12pm - Lunch with Mark Collins and Guy Caskey with a focus on House Churches
2:30pm - Bob Johnson - Being an Excutive pastor
5pm Focus on Church Planting with 5 church planters from Greater Houston area

Friday
8:30am Dave Peterson, Memorial Drive Pres. Focus on Men's Ministries
11am Ed Young, Second Baptist Church, Focus on Preaching and Multi-site Ministries
1:30pm Kirbyjon Caldwell, Windsor Village, Focus on Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Prayer
4:30pm Supper with Randy Hageman, Focus: Dealing with Predecesors who have comitted sexual indiscretions.

Saturday
10am Dealing with Disappointment and Starting Over
12:15 Lunch with Rickie Bradshaw, Focus: Church Planting in the Hip-Hop Community
3:30pm Chapelwood UMC, Focus: Developing Congregations within a Single Congregation
6:pm Worship and diiner with Mery street, Focus: Developing a Worshiping 12-step Community Within another Congregation

Sunday
8:30am Worship at Joel Osteen's church - Lakewood Chuch

12pm Worship at St. John's UMC, a innercity church that ministers to the community. It grew from 10 to over 4000 today. Dialogue with pastor Rudy Rasmus

5:30pm Worship at Ecclesia Christian Community and Dialogue with Chris Seay, Focus: Post-Modern Church Ministries

Monday
Leave at the crack of dawn and come back to Ky by lunch time.


As you can see, this looks like a great trip with excellent leaders and topics. Pray for all of us. I will write next week.