We have absolutely no news.  We still hope to have church on Oct. 4th…. but we just don’t know.

There is no church a week from today on 9/27/09.   We’ll be having a combined service with our Brecksville campus out in Brecksville.  But we hope (and think) that that we will be at our new location for worship on Oct.4th.  I’ll keep the website up to date with the latest news.

You always read those stories about the “World’s Stupidest Criminals” but the glory of the internet is that we can now watch them.  No sound on this clip, but all 2.5 minutes are worth your time.  I laughed out loud a few times as I watched it.

Who falls off a ladder?  Twice?

So this is the plan for the next year at Community of Hope - both in Lakewood and Brecksville.  We want to challenge everybody to systematically read the New Testament in a year.  Read each day, pray and meditate on it each day.  Then there are groups set up nearly everyday of the week so we can discuss it and think about it together as a group.  We will preach on it each week. Starting Oct. 1st.

Immersing ourselves in New Testament for a year.  Where will it take us?  Well, that’s why we call the The Experiment.

The groups page will be updated with all the new groups later this week.

So I have been bad at updating the website since school started back.  I am sorry.  It will not happen again.  I’m posting new sermons this moment(true story).  And about the move…

We submitted new plans for the location to the city this week.  They include redoing our stairs and putting a bathroom in on the main floor.  Hopefully they will accept it and we’ll be able to do it low cost.  Pray for that.

Somebody has way too much time on their hands.  But I love it.  Back to the Future is easily top 5 best trilogies ever.  Even though the 3rd one was terrible.

coming soon.  check back for more details

The first time I saw this video in February, I fell off the couch laughing. I just watched it for the second time and did the exact same thing.

We love everybody to be interconnected, so here goes.
Norm has a blog up and running these days dealing with high school athletics in the area. I spent some time poking around it yesterday, and man is it thorough. You can check it out here.

Christine wants the world wide web to know there are some apartments for rent over at Silver Coast.  Christine, Charlotte, Keith, and Rachel live there and it’s a stone’s throw away from the new location.  So check it out if you need a place to stay.  They’ve got one bedroom apartments for $435 heat included (you pay electricity).  It’s 454 sq.feet and there is tenant parking and laundry facilities.  There are two bedroom units with 630 sq. feet for $535.  No dogs, but you can have a de-clawed cat for and extra $25 a month. If you are interested, call (216)226-4512 and ask for Chris or Mary.

I’ve always appreciated The Onion.  It’s great for a little satire every now and again.  But this video they made is remarkable.  I’ve long pondered ways to get rid of the national debt (it freaks me out).  I’ve always just figured we should declare a Biblical year of Jubilee.  But I love this option too.  Especially the part at the bottom where it tells you the props came from a local high school.