We had our second snow of the season today. It began snowing around 10am this morning...it began slow and then it came down and came down hard. This afternoon we got some rain mixed in with the snow and the roads got really icy. Ray had to get out the snow shovel and scrape the ice off of the stairs and driveway. We are still getting used to the new weather we are experiencing.
My wonderful husband and roommates. We have four couches and they chose to sit on the same couch together...this is the typical evening picture!
Monday night Ray & I went to the Virginia Medical Center to hang out with Pastor David & Taryn, who gave birthday to a beautiful baby boy early Sunday morning. Ray got roped into holding Josiah David - born Sunday, January 13th at 8:25am (8 lbs. 1.2 oz, 21.5 inches)...he's a healthy baby...Josiah and Taryn got to go home on Tuesday and both are doing great.
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appointments with individuals who will be a part of the team that will help launch the church on September 9th. You never know when you are going to get that inner nudge from the Holy Spirit to share with someone about the vision of the church or to invite them to one of our vision nights - it has happened to me everywhere from standing in line at Best Buy to introducing myself to a family at the beach (yes, we found a quasi “beach” half an hour outside the city for fun family days with Taryn and Isaac). Matthew 28 reminds us to go into the world and make followers of Christ. A cool thing about this passage is that in the Greek the word for “go” is literally translated as “as you are going.” I believe this means as we are going about our normal daily activities (like going to Best Buy- There is not a man alive that does not like this store!), God will strategically place divine appointments in your path. All we have to do is stay in communication with Him, and He will show us the people He wants us talk to and will give us the words to say.
team is our Vision Night. We have had three Vision Nights -one at the Stine House (that’s us!), one at the Mobley’s (Thanks Ray and Summer), and one at Regent University (Thanks again to Cheryl Gould). This is an opportunity for everyone on the launch team to invite anyone that might be interested in finding out more information about the church. After dessert and coffee are served and people have had a chance to visit, I typically share for twenty to thirty minutes about the vision that the Lord has given us to start a church that would be a significant force in “building a God-first culture in the DC metro area” (something I am very passionate about because it is a vision that Taryn and I have been carrying in our hearts for the past nine years!) I also share from the book of Nehemiah because just as Nehemiah was called by God to rebuild the a physical wall in the capitol city, DC Metro Church has been called by God to be a part of rebuilding the spiritual wall of a God-first culture to surround our capitol city. The most recent Vision Night Reception in the solarium at Regent was such a big success that we have decided to have another one in the same location (Diagonal Road right off King Street in Old Town Alexandria) Friday, August 24th at 6:30pm. If you know anyone in the DC area that might be interested in coming to this, please contact Summer at 
We had a great outreach last Monday night at the Screen on the Green Event on the National Mall. Every summer they show old movies on the lawn in front of the Capitol building (D.C. is a cool place to live). We tried to think of the most creative way to reach the 10,000 plus people who attend the event and came up with the idea of passing out trivia cards with random facts about the movie Casa Blanca such as “the difference in height changes between Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman throughout the film.” Overall, we handed out all 600 cards to various individuals and had a great response as we met what, at the time, was many people’s “felt need” (to be entertained and find out some fun interesting facts about the oldie but goodie movie they were about to watch). As DC Metro desires to reach out to the surrounding community with the amazing love of Christ, I have been prompted to be continually asking myself, “What are the felt needs of the unbelievers around me?”
on a hot day was definitely meeting a felt need in the community. People are shocked when you offer them something for free, and it often opens up an opportunity to talk with them. We successfully won over kids and parents with “Face Painting.” We painted over a hundred little faces with some pretty cool "face art." You can check out some of our face painting masterpieces at our new 
