The Rainbow Family

Hey everybody I hope you're doing great. One of the things church planting has taught me is that you never know where the relationships you create are going to lead you. More than that, you never know how your plans will lead you into the incredible dreams God had for you & your church plant.

This week my family & I, & some friends from our church, are off to the Rainbow Gathering in Washington. This is a festival dating back to the 60's where people from all walks of life gathered together in a national forest to pray for peace. Now, several years later, this event hosts upward of 10,000 people from all over the world to eat, drink, pray, smoke weed, & enjoy life.

We're headed up there with a great group called the Bread of Life. They are a "Kitchen" who serves the Gathering by sharing both food & Jesus. This will be our first Gathering as a family & we're excited to see what God is going to do as many of the Rainbow people hail from Santa Cruz. We're not sure what to expect, but sharing food & Jesus seems simple enough & both have a special place in our hearts.

This last week I sat at the graduation of some of our church family. One of the speakers shared a quote I thought was very applicable to church planting: “Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.” -- Dwight D. Eisenhower We never planned to share a week of our lives with 10,000 hippies in the forests of Washington; however, in our planning we decided to see where God wanted us to go & see what doors that led to. Our plans might not be totally worthless, but our church plants, lives for that matter, are often less the result of our incredible ability to predict the future & more the result of our willingness to be prepared.

Namaste,

Sean