Archive for August, 2008

The Next Generation II

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

I love when you see someone begin to hit their stride of where God has placed them in ministry.  I have seen that the past couple weeks with one of our high school students named Jared.  Jared is a student who has been around ministry all his life.  His dad is an incredible minister and Jared […]

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Big Day

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Today was a huge day!  No not because we had over 400 students on campus last night.  That was big.  But this is Big BIG, at least for Dawn and I.  Today we officially went on the waiting list for Gladney’s Ethiopia Program.  Now we are beginning the waiting for our referral.  Should be a fun […]

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Community

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

I have heard since we decided to adopt that you are automatically accepted into a community of others who have or are in the process of adopting.  I thought that was nice, but never really thought anything else about it.  Of course you have an instant connection to others who have adopted and maybe an […]

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Is Your Dad Home?

Monday, August 18th, 2008

That is the question that was just asked to me when I opened my front door.  I then proceeded to tell him no, but he lived in Knoxville, that I lived here.  He then told me he was looking for the pastor.  I then again told him that was me.  I guess I am not getting […]

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Dare You To Move

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

We are in a series as a church called Dare You To Move.  Here is what I contributed to the series!

Chris Hollomon from FBCSmyrna on Vimeo.

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Update

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

So it finally happened today.  Something I have been praying to happen for a while now.  We finally got our approval to bring an orphan into the United States of America!  Dawn called me this afternoon to give me the news.  I told her I needed her to bring the paper tonight to church for […]

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The Next Generation

Sunday, August 10th, 2008

This morning was one of my proudest moments in ministry.  It didn’t have anything to do with the amount of students we had this morning, the number of students we baptized this morning, or that I taught some life changing message from the stage.  This morning I had the opp0rtunity to release a high school […]

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