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Right now, Harmony Church is predominately Caucasian. I say “predominately” to mean everyone but Pablo, our worship leader. Here’s some quick stats I came across today, via PeopleGroups.info:

As of 2000, there are:

• 2820 people from Mexico in our area.
• 220 people from India in our area.
• 191 people from China in our area.
• 102 people from Vietnam in our area.

That’s households, by the way. And it also doesn’t include the diversity of the university.

Bottom line: there are well over 3,000 people that may not be being reached by churches in our area.

So what can you do to cross cultural boundaries, and extend a hand to those people who aren’t like you?

• So stoked that we’re giving our people this Sunday a break from the pressure of having “to go to church”. Family time is much more important than an hour meeting.
• We had a great Echo Group this past Sunday night. We talked about Gospel-centered marriages…one of my passions. Ephesians 5 is the text for this. Can’t wait to preach on it in February.
• I’ve got the first three sermons of 2009 completely outlined. It feels weird to be ahead.
• Praying through how we can partner with Sovereign King Church in Garner. Gordon and I were talking online the other day, and would love for both churches to get together somehow. Any ideas?
• We’ve dropped off three families’ worth of gifts and groceries. It’s awesome that even though we are a young church, it is built into our culture that we don’t exist for ourselves. It would be so easy to say “We need the money, we can’t afford to give it away”, but we don’t. We have been blessed to be a blessing.
• Sherry, I promise the Gospel-Centered Legacy post is coming. Sometime this coming week.
• Miranda and I are enjoying our break. Can’t wait to give her her Christmas present. Hope she’ll like it.
• I’m hoping that my co-workers will finally be joining me in January. I think they’re excited to hear me preach. Hopefully they’ll be even more excited to meet Jesus.
• Keep praying for the 170,000, Harmony. We’ve got work to do…starting in a week.