I had the great opportunity to help Craig and Lori Ellington (their son is Josh) help cook and serve hot-dogs for the Youth Middle School Football Fundraiser today.  CATGrove meets at YMS and is a school partner.  They are so good to us and we love partnering with them.  We hope we add value to what they are doing in investing in the lives of the young people of...

There is nothing like a little watermelon in the heat of August!  Why am I the last one to find out you can buy a watermelon without seeds?  What has the world come to? Check out our pics from the weekend below: Darth Caleb prepares for attack!  Caleb loves to be dressed...

Yesterday I went with Craig Story (CATGrove’s other church planting pastor), Terry Little (East Metro Church Starting Strategist), and Mike Keaton (Pastor of Crossroads-Walton County) to visit with Ritchie Miller the pastor of Avalon Church in McDonough, GA. Ritchie was awesome!  He and his Executive Pastor Dusty Beach spent over two hours sharing their...

Below is an incredible Blog Post from a Pastor named Shawn Lovejoy on how to invite people to church.  I pasted it below OR you can go directly to the BLOG POST HERE to read it.    ONE of the mistakes I think we Pastors make as much as any other is telling people WHAT to do on the weekends without showing them HOW to do it. For instance, so many pastors every...

One of our desires at CATGrove is to be a church of influence.  We want to be a churchplanting center where churchplanters come through, work with us and then get sent out to plant a church.  We wanted from Day One to have in our DNA a multiplying GENE that influenced other churches, pastors and church plants. We are less than a year into CATGrove and it is...