On October 1, we lost one of our long time devoted church members, Bernard Harlow. 

Check out this Podcast.  Pat Lencioni was interviewed by the Catalyst team earlier this year and you gotta listen to this one.  I have listened to it several times.  In the interview with Pat Lencioni, he touches on what he calls the "Law or Rule of Thirds" where he helps leaders to intentionally invest in those who are support the vision.&nbs

Today students all around the nation gathered at their school flag poles to pray.  This morning, over 50 students gathered for prayer at Chickahominy Middle School for "See You at the Pole."    One of our students, Caroline L., led this movement, for up until today, Chickahominy students joined the Atlee High School students for this gathering on Atlee's campus.  Caroline felt led by God to have one on the Chickahominy campus and as you can see, it was a great success!   (Click Read More for the rest of the entry)

I came across this interesting set of numbers in the Spring issue of Leadership Journal under "Toolkit" on page 62 (quoted from Nancy Gibbs, "One Day in America," Time Magazine 11/26/07). 

Every day Americans buy:

3,972,603 movie tickets

1,683,835 songs and albums from online resources

568,764 Titleist golf balls

443,650 large French fries at Burger King

160,968 bottles of Absolut Vodka

7,500 Samsung LCD TVs

I have begun training for the Half Marathon in Richmnond this November... 

On July 15, I celebrated ten years as pastor here at New Highland!  What a journey it has been! ...

I have been reading through the book of Job in the Bible and this verse jumped off the page this morning:

"...[God] does great things beyond our understanding" (Job 37:5b, NIV).

Greetings to our Community,

On Monday I circled this story from my devotional reading in The Word for You Today.  It concerns prayer and our releasing our struggles to God.  As we struggle with relationships, finances, health, children, career, let us ask if we have totally released the issue to God.  When we do we will have peace...