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This morning it hit me…6 months from today, Liz, Méabh & I step on a plane (Méabh will actually be carried on most likely), and get off the plane  the next day in Dublin. The girls will have another month in the states to go to camp, see friends/family, etc, before heading over to join us. [...]

I’ve been thinking about being comfortable lately. One of that issues that we deal with when we are in the midst of a transition is discomfort. When we move from a place where we understand how things work, and what our role is, we’d consider ourselves comfortable with our surroundings. When our situation changes, we [...]

One of the things we’ve been asked more than once since we began telling people we’re moving to Ireland is, “how are you going to support yourselves?” As you might have guessed, it was one of the first conversations Liz & I had with each other as we began thinking and praying about this move. [...]

When we first started the Ithaca Vineyard, I went to a number of church planter training and heard over and over again about how many people you would need to talk to if you were going to plant a church. My conversation with God, went something like this…”If you really want me to plant a [...]

This morning Liz & I were going to have a weekly planning meeting at 10 am. We got started a bit late, and when I got into my calendar @ 10:11 am, the first thing I noticed was that I had an orthodontist’s appointment at 10 am. (And I live 20 minutes away). It is [...]

The following is from James Cherian. James was part of the original planting team of the Ithaca Vineyard, and has been on staff in various roles since then. He is currently a member of the Pastoral Search Team (PST). ———– Usually, when I think of meetings and committees and group projects, I think of a [...]

Last night our Pastoral Search Team (PST)  began the interviewing process to find the next lead pastor of the Vineyard Church of Ithaca. Our first round of interviews we are actually conducting via Skype. All 10 members of our  PST are able to be in the room with people who are not in Ithaca, and [...]

Earlier this week I wrote a brief update on the Ithaca Vineyard’s search for a new lead pastor, and another on how things were progressing with our move to Ireland. I thought I’d end the week with an update of the various other things we’ve got going on…or at least as much as I can remember. [...]

Yesterday I gave an update on the current pastoral search at the Ithaca Vineyard. Today I thought I’d write about how everything with Project:Move to Dublin is going. This part of our lives fells pretty big at this point has several aspects to it, so I figured the easiest thing to do was address each [...]

I thought I’d take some time over the next week and update on some of the stuff I’ve been working on lately. When we first headed into our final year in Ithaca, we knew there were some pretty big things we’d be working on. And while I think many of them are going well, they [...]