First Baptisms at Ephesus

This Sunday we’re going to have our first water baptism service at Ephesus! We’re going full on church plant style and doing it in a small portable pool in our backyard. That’s great! I told everyone at Ephesus that I would post directions here on the blog so that is below. Also, I want to direct you to my previous post on water baptism to get a detailed understanding of what water baptism is and why we do it at Ephesus Church.

Directions to the Eige House from Exit 25 off I-77

• Head east on Hwy 73/Sam Furr Rd
• Approx. 5 miles come to intersection of Poplar Tent Rd and Hwy 73
• Turn Left (north) at intersection-this will be Shiloh Church Rd.
• Approx. 2 miles come to The Farm subdivision on left
• Turn Left (west) on River Farm Rd
• First Left on Traders Ct.
• Quick Left at stop sign
• Quick Right at Market View Dr.
• 4th house on left
• 3425 Market View Dr-grey house with black shutters

Any questions shoot me an email at ben@ephesuschurch.tv

The good and the bad…

Well good and bad…new web site is up with new podcasts available for download too! There’s still some features we’ll be adding, but check it out! www.ephesuschurch.tv or just ephesuschurch.tv if you’re nasty!

It seems we won’t be moving back into Brevard St. for a good while longer. They are having to do major renovations and we’ll have to wait till they finish. BUT…it’s going to be an awesome facility when it’s ready for us to move back in. So for now, we’re still meeting at the 24-7 Prayer Room.

New series starts this week, “Ephesians:Pocket Guide to Christianity” come check it out.

The Ephesus Road Trip ’08 rolls on

Ephesus church will continue to meet at the Charlotte 24-7 Prayer Room through the month of April (or until Brevard Street is repaired). We are especially grateful to 24-7 for housing the vagabond church of Ephesus as we wait for Brevard St. to get repaired. It has really been a great venue for us in the temporary. Tomorrow evening at 6pm we’ll be hitting Pt. 3 of What is the Church and talk about what it is the church does on a regular basis and why we do it. This week we’re talking about worship, preaching and communion.  Well, I hope to see you at Ephesus.

Meeting Venue through April

We will able to meet at the Charlotte 24-7 Prayer Room through the month of April while the electrical system gets repaired in our Brevard Street location. The last two weeks have gone really well in this space giving us a very intimate place to dig into God and His plan for the church.

Beyond that, I’m really feeling the need for excercise. I’m tired and it’s totally my fault. I’ve been able to find a decent balance with my schedule, but I’ve gotten out of a good exercise routine. So this next week I’m challenging myself to get an exercise regimen into my schedule and make it a priority. I certainly believe we have a responsibility to keep the bodies God gave us healthy and I’ve been slacking there.

Lastly, Casey and I signed with a real estate agent this past Thursday to put our Davidson house on the market so we can move down into Charlotte. We’ve been going back and forth on this for a while because of the new baby girl that’s on the way and everything going on with getting Ephesus, we weren’t sure if we wanted to take on finding a new house and a move. But a couple of weeks ago I was praying about it all and felt strongly God was telling us we need to be down in Charlotte now. It has always been our desire to move into Charlotte as Ephesus got going, but we were dragging our feet. But now we’re jumping in with both feet. We know we have to be in the neighborhood and really being in the place God has called us. So pray our house sells quickly in this market AND we find a great place to live right in the middle of Charlotte. My challenge to everyone who is following after God’s plan is to jump in 100%. Straddling the fence eventually causes some serious pain…

Podcasts

The podcasts will continue to be updated! Week 1 in our series on the church has not yet been uploaded because we have run out of space on our free podcast service we are using. We are working out the final kinks on our own dedicated server which will be hosting our audio & video (coming soon) podcasts, our new website (coming VERY soon) and our email. We’ll be a self-contained internet content machine! Thanks to Brian Sullivan for working all of this out, and look for two new audio podcasts (The Church pts. 1 & 2) next week.