Check out three updates from Haiti on my personal blog (JasonCDukes.com). Then, join us Sunday morning for a special focus and time of prayer for the people of Haiti.
Thankful to be the church together.
-jason
by jason c dukes on Friday January 15, 2010
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by jason c dukes on Monday December 21, 2009
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It has been a privilege now for five Decembers to be able to celebrate Christmas Eve with the Summerport community. The Westpoint family had our 1st Sunday morning gathering there in the community center, and we continue to be welcomed by the HOA for special events like Christmas Eve.So, join us this coming Thursday at 5:30pm for a special Christmas Eve gathering, including carols, the Christmas story, prayer, and candlelight. It will last about an hour. Kids are welcome. Come as a family and bring a neighbor. Let's celebrate together the God who came near!
If you are able, please bring a $10 Publix card with you to help us provide groceries for some families in need during the holidays.
Thanks so much! Hope to see you there!!!
In the meantime, listen to this wonderful song about Emmanuel by Josh Wilson.
by jason c dukes on Friday December 04, 2009
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Huge props to all that God did in and through Josh Taylor and an amazing team of volunteers on Thanksgiving Day last week. The West Orange Times published a story about it. You can read it by CLICKING HERE.You can read more about HOUSE BLEND CAFE on the this site by clicking here. Thankful for Josh and Kelly Taylor and so many others who serve our local community so faithfully.
by jason c dukes on Thursday October 22, 2009
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Here are four practical suggestions: - pray for the people you live by and work with
- connect with them over real life (a meal, a game, an activity, working out, kids sports leagues, school etc.)
- invite them to serve with you both locally and globally
- learn and live the ways of Jesus together as you connect and serve
You can do these right here and right now. Will you? May I suggest two reasons why. First, because you were made for this. You were made to live beyond self. God desires for you to know Him personally and experience His love, and He desires for you to make His love known to the people you walk with and encounter everyday. Jesus said that He came to give abundant life. He also said that this is how we find life in Him - when we come to the end of self and begin to give our life away.
Second reason is because this is a matter of life and death. This is not just about religious preference. Jesus said He came to give life, but that the "thief" (the evil one) is trying to steal that life from as many as He can. God, in His love, will not force us into relationship with Him. If He did, the relationship wouldn't mean much forced would it? So, God in His grace is giving us time to experience His creation and know His love as we relate to one another. Some choose self, and evil wreaks its havoc. Some choose to live beyond self, and love blossoms. So does life. So does God's Kingdom, on earth as it is in heaven. That's why this is a matter of life and death. We better get to it.
Please commit to cultivating God's love and the signs of His Kingdom on earth as it is in heaven by living beyond self and living sent as a letter of His love and hope into the lives of the people you live by and work with.
Let's be living sent together. It's what we were made for.
by jason dukes on Monday March 09, 2009
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One might actually think it silly to replace an award-winning website with a free Wordpress.com blog site. But we had our reasons. Here they are:
1 - we wanted to create something that was more interactive.
We are in the age of Web 2.0. Websites are more than just bulletin boards now. They must be ever-changing and interactive. This site will be, and we will be adding latest news more easily, as well as video stories of the Westpoint family living sent together.
2 - we wanted to create something that was free and reproducible.
We collaborate with a lot of other leaders who are a part of "legacy churches" or are starting to be the church in new ways. We want everything we do to be as reproducible as possible, so that anyone who sees what God is doing in and through Westpoint could be encouraged that they could do it in their own way in their context, too. Website included. We had an award-winning, high cost website. We love the guy that created it for us BIG TIME. However, for our current emphases and purposes, we realized it was not reproducible. So, we made one that was.
3 - we wanted to make it easy to manage and update from anywhere.
With a Wordpress blog, we can update and manage the new site from anywhere there is access to the internet. Pretty cool.
4 - we wanted you to contribute to its content.
We believe that each of you as the Westpoint church family has so much to contribute and offer as encouragement to each other. So, we will be creating a TEAM OF BLOGGERS to contribute to the "teaching" element of the blog site. Are you interested? Leave a reply in the comment section below and let us know. We want you to be a part.
So, there you go. Look around. Leave us some thoughts and feedback.
By the way - are you dreaming about how to be the church, how to live sent? If you are, and you need a website to communicate that dream and to tell the stories of how it is being lived out, then you can create one for free...like we did. And, we'll show you how.
Keep being the church, living sent daily.
1 - we wanted to create something that was more interactive.
We are in the age of Web 2.0. Websites are more than just bulletin boards now. They must be ever-changing and interactive. This site will be, and we will be adding latest news more easily, as well as video stories of the Westpoint family living sent together.
2 - we wanted to create something that was free and reproducible.
We collaborate with a lot of other leaders who are a part of "legacy churches" or are starting to be the church in new ways. We want everything we do to be as reproducible as possible, so that anyone who sees what God is doing in and through Westpoint could be encouraged that they could do it in their own way in their context, too. Website included. We had an award-winning, high cost website. We love the guy that created it for us BIG TIME. However, for our current emphases and purposes, we realized it was not reproducible. So, we made one that was.
3 - we wanted to make it easy to manage and update from anywhere.
With a Wordpress blog, we can update and manage the new site from anywhere there is access to the internet. Pretty cool.
4 - we wanted you to contribute to its content.
We believe that each of you as the Westpoint church family has so much to contribute and offer as encouragement to each other. So, we will be creating a TEAM OF BLOGGERS to contribute to the "teaching" element of the blog site. Are you interested? Leave a reply in the comment section below and let us know. We want you to be a part.
So, there you go. Look around. Leave us some thoughts and feedback.
By the way - are you dreaming about how to be the church, how to live sent? If you are, and you need a website to communicate that dream and to tell the stories of how it is being lived out, then you can create one for free...like we did. And, we'll show you how.
Keep being the church, living sent daily.
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