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Grace Harvest Church – Moorepark, CA

Our first time to stop at Moorepark, Grace Harvest was hosting Pastor Emmanuel Sackey, our partner and Pastor from Somanya, Ghana, Africa.  We haven’t seen Pastor Sackey in over a year, so it was great to reconnect and have time to refresh vision with him!  Watch for some exciting things coming soon connected to Pastor Sackey, Share5, and Revival Harvest Ministries.

Catalyst West Coast II – Irvine, CA

Back for it’s second year at Mariner’s Church in Irvine, CA, the crew of Catalyst West put on another great conference.  Amy spent a good portion of her time with the Land Of a Thousand Hills Coffee crew, and I volunteered with the Catalyst team in the resource store.  The kids?  Well, they were doing one of their favorite things… encouraging people to Drink Coffee Do Good.

Emily and Dillon rocking with Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee from Share5 by WorldWins on Vimeo.

Stay tuned.  We’ll be talking to the guys at Catalyst about a group rate discount for Share5, and we’ll let you know. Regardless, if you have the ability, join us at Catalyst West Coast in Irvine, CA on April 21-23, 2010!

For even more fun at Catalyst West Coast, Share5 is proud to announce that thanks to the willingness and collaborative efforts of SEVERAL people, (Zak White, Scott Fillmer, Outreach Films, jLog by Unity Media, Land of a Thousand Hills Coffee, and Catalyst) we will be hosting a Twitter Meetup, Blogger Meetup, and Pre-screening reception for Outreach Films new movie "How To Save a Life" on Thursday night, May 23rd at Catalyst West Coast in Irvine, CA!  Details are below:

Food /Coffee by:

Location:  Mariners Community Center     
Time:  Immediately following final session
Hashtag:  #catwest
RSVP link: RSVP For Catalyst West Tweetup

GREAT DOOR PRIZES including…

a FREE CATALYST ATLANTA TICKET
TOMS Shoes
Books from Jud Wilhite, Anne Jackson
T-Shirts, Coffee, and more!

Immediately following our prize drawings, Outreach Films will be screening their new film, "How To Save a Life", which releases this fall!  Please stay  and provide your important feedback on this new film, then support them with your blog, twitter, or other online feeds!

Watch the Trailer Here

and speaking of Catalyst, if you have not yet heard about our Catalyst West discount rate, be sure to check out our website for this limited time offer for the April 22-24 Irvine conference! See you there!

1.  We got into Atlanta on Tuesday night, and shortly after our arrival, while in the parking lot of our favorite (not available in Idaho) restaurant (Chick-Fil-a), we received a phone call.  It was our property manager back home asking if our house was still available for lease.  She has a tenant!  Good news- tenant.  Timing – we have 10 days to be out of our house once we get home.
2.  That makes us homeless as of the 24th, but that is ok, since our plan was to be in Phoenix by the 31st.
3.  Still up in the air on the November tour.  Waiting on confimation from the headlining band that we didn’t mess up the timing and miss the opportunity.  We’ll keep you posted.
4.  Tonight, we had a great meeting with some new friends, but it wasn’t with the full group we originally intended. The timing just didn’t work out, so the original plan had to be modified.  (Why is that seem to be becoming my theme song?)  end result:  The great night and discussions we ended up having wouldn’t have worked with a larger group.  I’m so glad things work out like that…
5.  We went to a meetup of bloggers at Catalyst, but since we had the other dinner already, we showed up like over an hour and a half late.  TIMING:  because we were late, we actually had more time to speak to the host, his wife, and others, since the main crowd had already headed out.

I continue to be amazed at how I always seem to have one plan or agenda, and as soon as a single wrinkle in the timeline appears, my "plan" falls to pieces.  God somehow manages to take the results and make them work out to my benefit.  How is that?  Someone (sorry, I wish I could remember who so I could credit you!) said to me today, "In the movie of my life, I tend to look at the individual still frame, but God sees the entire film strip".  He truely does have a perspective and an ability to, regardless of our own inadequacies, mistakes, or shortcomings, use our successes and our failures to work his purposes for our lives.

We have had a great week, and were fortunate to have Amy’s parents surprise us with a visit last Friday night, so they’ve been hanging out with us and their grandkids, which has actually let us get alot of things done.  Keeping priorities, however, we did decide to do a 3 day "RV Experiment" and went camping with them in their 5th wheel to give the kids an appetizer of "life on the road".  What a blast!

I leave tomorrow for a men’s retreat in the Idaho mountains for 3 days, so I will try to put a post or two about what God is doing/saying while I am there.  By the time I get back, it will only be 3 days to wheels up for Catalyst!

Blessings, and watch for blog updates from MAN CAMP!

Chad

We just finished the design for the new shirts we will be printing for Catalyst last night. (see image)  These will be printed in small quantities this week for a test run to see how people respond to them before we print a larger quantity for the tour with Wavorly in November. (see my post on The Difference a Year Makes)

So… the flights are booked, rental car reserved, and its off to see what God has in store for us this year.  We appreciate your prayers this next week as we continue discussions with those we will be meeting there.  Please also be praying for either a renter or buyer for our house, as we’d love to get the house situation put to bed by early October.  We have been packing and moving things into storage at my mom’s, as we will only have basically 3 weeks after returning from Catalyst before heading to Arizona to kick off the Wavorly tour.  That makes for a lot of loose ends to still tie up in a relatively short time!