This summer, we had the privilege of welcoming two new church planters to the Orchard NEO team, Josh and Ray. Josh relocated his family from Southern Indiana, and Ray and his family have joined us from the Chicago area. They are both already hard at work learning...
Can you imagine hope fulfilled? What about a place where hope is found? I think if we are honest with ourselves, hope in itself is more promising than having it be fulfilled. Am I right? One thing we know for certain about hope is that it will always be there. I guess...
Have you ever been the recipient of a random act of kindness? Maybe it was somebody paying for your coffee, a surprise batch of homemade cookies waiting for you at work, or an encouraging note from an old friend. No matter how big or how small, when people go out of...
“What is faith? It is made up of three things— knowledge, belief, and trust. Knowledge comes first… Faith is not a blind thing, for faith begins with knowledge. It is not a speculative thing, for faith believes facts of which it is sure. It is not an unpractical,...
Our third goal in Reimagine is to give away $30 million to global missions by 2050. We want everywhere in the world to have a Christ-centered witness. While we love sending teams on short-term mission trips, we also know that sometimes the best method is to support...
By 2050, we are praying and dreaming for 60 new gospel-preaching churches in Northeast Ohio. If that happens, every community in NEO will have a church that holds out the good news of Jesus in ways that make sense to that specific neighborhood. Here are three reasons...
On Sunday, Pastor Joe shared our 30-year goal: that everyone in a 10-mile radius would have a Christ-following friend. To make that happen, we are specifically praying for 10,000 more people in our area to know Jesus. This is a big goal, so it has to involve all of...
Life is hard right now. With the pandemic weighing heavily on our minds and the health and wellbeing of our families weighing heavily on our hearts, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by it all. Finding a balance can seem impossible as we move through our days as though...
Marriage is hard. There, I said it. If you have been married longer than 1 day, you probably have found this to be true. The character traits of your spouse that were “cute” when you were dating are the same things that might now start to drive you crazy. In times...
This year has been one for the ages. We have had the untimely deaths of many celebrities (including my favorite basketball player, Kobe Bryant), a pandemic that has seemingly halted our country and the world and now, more heightened racial tension. In many ways, this...
If social media were a show, it’d be like the recent Netflix documentary Tiger King—which I may or may not have watched. It starts out funny, entertaining, and enjoyable. And then slowly becomes less funny and more alarming. Less entertaining and more hostile. Less...
My kids liked the Pixar movie Inside Out. I loved it. It was a genius and very entertaining idea to take our complicated emotions, inner thoughts, and memories from the human experience and turn it into a riveting movie that we could all identify with, through...