Kyle Goen Blog

Thank you to all who were part of the Spirit Night at Chick-fil-a in Murfreesboro last night. The boys, Evan and Peyton, were so encouraged by your support and friendship. There was a great sense of community in the store as we laughed and had a good time with friends.

Many thanks go to Chick-fil-a Murfreesboro, Cortney Bartemus, LifePoint Church and Providence Christian Academy for making the evening a success and a fun time.

Evan and Peyton will make sure that you get to see pictures and hear about their experiences in Belgium when they return following Spring Break.

Tonight my sons are hosting a fundraiser for their mission trip to Brussels, Belgium at Chick-fi-la in Murfreesboro, TN. Everything begins at 5 pm this evening and wraps up at 8 pm. If you are able to come out and take part we would love it. You will see lots of your friends and have some great food.

Chick-fil-a allows non-profit organizations and individuals who are attempting to raise money for mission trips have a fundraiser in their stores. These events are called Spirit Nights and I am so thankful for the vision of Mr. Cathy for allowing these to take place.

We hope to see you tonight at Belgium Mission Spirit Night 5pm – 8 pm @ Chick-fil-a in Murfreesboro. 15% of the total ticket goes toward their project.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
-Nelson Mandela

David Watson gave a good talk at Verge ‘10 that has some good information when dealing with church planting.

This is an incredible illustration of living too safe. The video is an older video of Francis Chan, but well worth the watch. Chan is the pastor of Conerstone Church in Simi Valley, California. He is also the author of Crazy Love and Forgotten God.

Mint.com

Interesting article on the Most Expensive Cities in the World.

Another interesting blog about missions and expenses.

HT: [Kevin Mullins]

Team Belgium has started group French lessons each week. We are having a great time attempting to learn a new language since French is a vital part of our church planting process. I have to laugh sometimes thinking about a transplanted Texan living in Middle Tennessee trying to learn a European language. One of my ministry partners once said that I could “butcher the King’s English.”  He was probably right as evidenced by my blog post. But, it is so important that our team learn to speak the language of the people we are trying to reach and influence. Pray for us as we gather each week, laugh at each other and ourselves, as we learn to speak French with a southern accent and grow closer as a team for His glory.

We received this from our Team Bangkok leader Bret Cox yesterday. He has asked that we pass the note along to the church.

Dear LifePoint Church,

I am sorry this has taken so long to get to you. We have been balancing reading, class time, ministry, and personal time with our Lord. That really isn’t an excuse though as you dropped everything to rise up and meet our needs. Team Bangkok was completely and totally amazed at the response from our church when we had to relocate to unfurnished apartments. The body went above and beyond by supplying all our needs right down to forks and spoons! This was a picture of how Biblical community is fleshed out as modeled in Acts 2. Since we don’t know who made all the donations, maybe this can be posted on the website. We truly want everyone to know how much we appreciate our Church and their heart for missions.

A special thanks to Pat, Tim, Leslie, Jason and Witt for their sacrifice of time and energy to make the trip to Atlanta and work tirelessly to get the furnishings from the truck to each apartment, then make the late night drive back to Smyrna. What a long day for them! As we are learning in our training, we are blessed to be a blessing and you have certainly been a blessing to us. We LOVE each of you and look forward to all the glory God is going to receive through our faithful body of believers. With sincere love, Team Bangkok

Team Bangkok

Bret and Susie Cox

Seth Hood

Brandon and Crystal Hathcock

Steve and Tiffany Van Dyke

Brett and Beth Clark

Kyle Tanner

Here are a few Relief options that I trust you could go utilize for helping the people of Haiti in their time of need. We need to be involved at a time like this.

Baptist Global Response The International Mission Board…100% of all dollars go to relief efforts.

Long Hollow Baptist Church – Crazy Love Campaign The Church has an active ministry presence in Haiti. They are currently building an orphanage in the country of Haiti. All dollars that are given at this time will go toward relief efforts .

Real Hope For Haiti – Former members of LifePoint Church, Aaron and Jaime Ivey,  have adopted a child (Story, girl) from this orphanage in Haiti. They are in process with another child (Amos, boy) who is still in the country. He is safe at this time. Scroll to the bottom of the home page and click the donate button.

Compassion International Haiti Relief very reputable organization

New Missions

Get involved.

Iraqi Christians underground because of bombing.

Pakistani believers worship in fear.

In the midst of our celebrations we need to remember those who worship in fear and in harms way this Christmas.