Just over five years ago, God called me to serve Him in Highland Park (a small city inside of Detroit). Our country has its own opinion of Detroit. And while many of the outside opinions are true, I have seen something much more beautiful in a city the rest of the country has all but given up on. In the midst of financial poverty and brokenness, God is working. I have met some of the most amazing people in my community and it is a privilege to serve with and for them. The Gospel is just as powerful here as anywhere else!
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We love this city that God has called us to. The media is full of 'bad news' about the Motor City, and there are plenty of significant challenges. How different the evening news portrayal would be if they only new how THE 'Good News' of Christ and His Kingdom are at work here!
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God gave me Numbers 14:24 as a special verse for my last birthday: "But my servant Caleb, because
he has a different spirit and has followed me fully, I will bring into the land into which he went, and his descendents shall posses it." My desire for the past forty years has been to have a spirit like Caleb's, and I feel the Lord is calling me to keep moving forward more fervently in this area as I get older. I want to help others become like Caleb as well in their love for the Lord Jesus.
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The majority of our work involves coaching and mentoring the next generation of believers and Nav staff who are having an impact where God has planted them in life. My wife Sara has become involved with a growing number of women whom God is developing and using to touch others for Christ.
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Read what's happening in Detroit.
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Here a story about Detroit from Bob Adgate.
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A small group of Michigan Nav staff has been meeting to pray over and discuss our progress in advancing the Gospel in the Michigan area. If your experience is like ours, your initial enthusiasm has been tested many times. Several experiences have impressed us with our absolute dependence on God to move mountains if we are to see this movement get off the ground.
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