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Changes in the Works

Sam — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:40:23 +0000

Some of you might notice that thedesocios.com has been fairly quiet recently. Well alot has been going on for us in the last month.

The first week of January Jo, Gus and I traveled to visit my family in upstate New York. This gave us a nice break from alot of the busyness.

As many people know we have been planning and praying for the opportunity to plant a new church for the Lawrenceville Bloomfield sections of Pittsburgh.

Last weekend I presented my plans to our denomination’s regional leadership and they decided to endorse it.

This means a number of things for the DeSocios and thedesocios.com

Joanna, and I will begin working toward starting a new church for Lawrenceville and Bloomfield.
We will be connecting with many people who might want to join us in this new church.
This means that we will be pretty busy preparing for our transition, including spending alot of time finding the needed resources to realize our hopes for this new church plant.
Starting in July 1st I will move from my position as Assistant Pastor at City Reformed, to being a fulltime church planter. The leaders at City Reformed hope to have a potential replacement in the works by June so that there might be some overlap.
I will not be posting as much as I had been on our site, as I will be spending alot more time networking and updating people about our progress. Im not sure that we will be using this site for those updates.
When I post they are going to be shorter.
We are gonna spend more time putting up pictures and videos of Gus (thats why most people come to this site anyway.)
We need help from lots of people to see our dreams of a new church community become a reality. Please consider how you might partner with us, in support prayer or participation. Contact hopeforpittsburgh@gmail.com

Post-Christmas Wrap Up

Sam — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:59:21 +0000

I haven’t writer a lot in the last few weeks. We are on our way back to the Burgh, and I’m looking forward to being home. We had a great time with both our families and tomorrow I get to preach at City Reformed.
Everyone was really great to us, and we got a ton of stuff we need.

I’m hoping to start blogging more in the next few weeks. Uneven messing with new design for the site.
I hope everyone had a good Christmas, our aniversary is on Monday so we will have a cool week.

Back From Vacation

Sam — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 15:16:09 +0000

So we are back from Red Wing, in all we traveled over 1600 miles in the last week. If you think thats bad, my in-laws first came from Philadelphia to our place in Pittsburgh.

It was a great trip I have like 400 pictures that need to go up on flickr, that might happen today or tomorrow. I get next week off too, and my goal is to finish an over due paper from last semester, and to pick maybe try my hand at silk screening.

I did some writing this week, some reflections on Rodney Stark’s Cities of God, and I’m just editing stuff before I put it up.

I hope everyone had as good a week as we had.

flickr.

Vacation With The Family

Sam — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:38:41 +0000

Reporting live from the eco-lodge in Elkhart, Indiana.
I havent posted in over a week, things are busy with work. I am hoping to do some writing over vacation.
We are on our way to Red Wing Mn.