ARC Church Planters' Conference

Dave with ARC leader Billy Hornsby, and our beloved pastor Dino Rizzo

Hosted by Healing Place Church (wow, the food was out of this world cajun tasty!) the hearts of servants were evident everywhere we turned. I hope it was okay to be proud of my church, because my buttons were popping off...or maybe it was from the jambalaya. It's times like this that I am so happy and honored to belong to the HPC family.

What a great time we've had the last two days intermingling with people who have a heart to plant and grow new churches. You know that has to be a God-thing. Planting means starting from scratch. Not easy.

Here're some of the folks we met. One day you'll read about some of them being used by God all over their community and with some of their people serving with Children's Cup somewhere overseas.

This is Ben Forsberg. We met his brother Joel (worked for JMM in India) in Rwanda when we attended Joyce Meyer's meeting there. Ben and Joel are starting a new work in Minneapolis area.

Here we are with Troy Shaw, who pastors a growing church just east of Atlanta. Troy and his family are planning on a trip to Swaziland very soon, just to check us out and bless our staff!