Josh Burnett

The past week has been crazy and amazing!

• Last Friday, we signed a lease with Loews Annapolis Hotel to begin holding public services there October, 24th.
• Last Saturday we delivered food to 75 families in Annapolis.
• Last Sunday we had our first pre-launch church service at the Austin Grill. We worshiped together, had a message, talked about our city, and took communion for the first time as a church.  Then we had a block party in the evening off clay street.
• On Monday we had our first staff advance… we don’t retreat we advance! Which proved to be quite an adventure (pictures attached above).
• Thursday Sarah, Savannah, and myself moved to our new house.
• Today we have been preparing for this weekend!  It is going to be another crazy one!  We have a mission team in town – tomorrow morning they are going to be meeting up with us to go serve at the Chesapeake Children’s Museum, then in the evening we are going to be throwing a block party in the Admiral Oaks Apartments in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club.  Then on Sunday we are having church in the morning, and in the afternoon and evening we are going to be hosting a cool down station at City Dock in Annapolis to help people cool down after the 4th of July parade and leading up to the fire works!

This summer has been an active one so far but we have been enjoying every moment of it!  One of the great things has been having mission teams come in to help!  God has been so good to us and I am convinced that all that we are doing right now is beginning to cause a bit of a stir in Annapolis.  My prayer is that it would be the kind of stir that helps people see God’s love for them… maybe for the very first time!  Check out this article that was written about the church and what we are doing to feed families in need.

If you pray please keep us in your prayers.  There is a lot going on and we are working hard every day.  Please ask God to sustain us and to give us the discipline to rest.  Pray that God continues to guide and direct us and give us boldness to have the conversations He is preparing in advance for us.  Pray that He expands the launch team and that more and more people come to know the life that  Jesus came to bring!