Shaun and Jessica Hover are special to our family. This blog entry tells you more about their journey from indifference and apathy to world-traveling missional leaders now living in L.A.
Here are some pic’s from their recent visit to Nashville/Otter Creek.

Our close friends, the Barton family, brought us dinner tonight: sweet tea, pot roast, green beans, fresh rolls, and banana cream pudding. They also brought another good friend, Randy Harris, in town this week, teaching a short course at Rochester College. 

I told Randy three things: 1) I don’t have a “go away” mat on my [...]

Assumption: Post-moderns would never go door knocking.
Not so fast.
For the last two years, I’ve heard a whisper as I drive down Avon Road coming/going to the synagogue (a.k.a. the Rochester Church building) . . . “What does it look like to live locally for Jesus? What does it look like to live locally here, in [...]

If you are interested in hearing a different way of understanding Israel’s wandering in the desert, click here and listen to “Longing for Egypt” . . .
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I am really interested in discussions about spiritual friendship. I appreciate the way in which Jesus says, in the Gospel of John, “No longer am I your superior, boss, [...]

We had a great time in Memphis this weekend. Our time with Josh, Kayci, and Truitt was special. The main focus of the trip (other than great food and conversation) was for a leaders retreat for the Sycamore View Church (where Josh preaches).
I walked through some of the material from Jesus Feast. Overall, it was [...]

I’m sitting in a booth with Kara at Azteca’s Mexican Restaurant. It’s snowing. Hard. It’s been snowing all day. Non-stop since ten o’clock this morning. It hasn’t stopped. I think it’s about minus four degrees outside.
Inside, we’re eating good food. Sweet-tea to wash it down.
Kara and I are talking about life, dreams, plans, hopes, lessons [...]