Planting Churches in the Real World

There’s an ugly rumor going around that my friend Joel Rainey is writing a book. Joel is the Director of Missions for the Mid-Maryland Baptist Association located in Columbia, MD. He has planted a church in South Carolina and now facilitates church planting in the association he serves.

His book is called Planting Churches in the Real World and it should be published in the next few weeks from what I hear. In the meantime, I was able to check his email and steal what appears to be the cover of the book. It’s my understanding it is not the final cover, but it appears to be the general concept.

You can click on the image for a larger view.  Also, this was an original painting just for this book, then scanned in and layered with the text of the title & author

Happy Thanksgiving 2007

I has so much to be thankful for: my family, my friends, the 3 or 4 bloggers who hit this site on a regular basis…This morning I’ll do it by putting up two videos…Enjoy the day!

And…

Ed Stetzer as Dan Kimball

Writing on his blog this morning, Ed Stetzer announces that Dan Kimball has called him out. About his hair. Kimball states,

I believe Ed would look fantastic in a rockabilly hair cut and I encourage him highly to take his hair to the next level.

Now I know Dan, he’s in my DMin cohort at George Fox Seminary. And I’ve met Ed a couple of times and like them both. So in the interest of friendship, hoping THEY can continue to get along, I’ve done a mock up of Ed with Dan’s rockabilly haircut. What do you think?