Leading a small team up to Baltimore (Gallery Church, Baltimore) for the week. Leaving Saturday. We’ll be doing some community service type work, prayer walking, and hanging out and meeting people. Matt Evans’ youth, Rockbridge Church in Dalton, went up earlier this summer and made over 2000 contacts in one week.

Ellis and Ginger are already making an impact. The service of the youth teams were written up in the Baltimore Sun on July 4. Advertising campaign underway across the city: Together: What if we decided that everyone matters?

That’s a good question. The VAST majority of our churches have left the city. I think truthfully we wish the problems of the city would disappear. That won’t happen apart from life change, and Jesus brings life change. If we want to change the city then we must pray for others like Ellis and Ginger who will be called to reach our cities. Too many of our acitivities in the cities turn into social services (not bad) and fail to present the gospel. Cities will change when people change, people will change when their hearts are changed. Jesus is in the business of changing hearts. Pray for us this week as we travel and pray that God uses us to impact someone’s life with the good news of Jesus.