Church Planters...Listen!

The best church planters conference you are going to attend next year is coming up in February and I can promise you right now you will be really mad at yourself if you don't go...so save yourself the anger and go sign up right now to go to Evolve hosted by ChurchPlanters.com and Mountain Lake Church. Shawn and David have out done themselves with the line up and plus...if Shawn Lovejoy is involved...you know its going to be AWESOME! He loves church planting and he loves church planters....so stop reading this and go sign up....NOW!!

Crazy Week

It has been one crazy week...here is the run down:

1. Went all over town delivering Christmas Gifts to partners of Pastor's Bonfire Conference...which is worth checking out by the way.
2. Went to Downtown Atlanta 2 days in a row...probably could have scheduled myself better but one was last minute.
3. Thanks to my friend Drew I had lunch with the founder of an awesome ministry to the homeless called SafeHouse....you really need to check this out!! Phillip is awesome and so is what he is doing!
4. Attended a small meeting with a group of church planters and other ministries downtown put on by a non-profit group called Surgence. Very cool...and also worth checking out.
5. Went by to visit my boys at Freedom as they were hanging out on the lift to get bikes for underprivileged in Acworth, and Shea and I got a flat tire and we ended up atop the lift helping out for few minutes while the car was being fixed...what Freedom did this week is unbelievable...way to go guys!!!
6. Had a meeting this morning...not really what I anticipated...and it left me with one question....WHY? That's all I'll say about that.
7. Tomorrow I'm moving....which is always fun!

The Visitation

Yesterday Shea and I took our pregnant wives over to the potential launching pad of our church plant. We took them around to see the area and had lunch. We then took them to do what women love to do....look at houses. We wanted them to really see if this was a place they could live. After a long day and lots of driving we feel like we are making some progress in the right direction. It was a good and productive day.

Like The New Look?

We made some changes to my blog...I think it looks awesome!! Heather did a complete make over for me! Let me know what you think...

Church Planting

I have had several meetings over the past couple of days with Church Planters. I love being able to talk about church planting. God is really raising men up to reach the nations for His glory. I am so excited about being on the journey, and being on the journey with others. I love being a church planter!!!

Welcome Back!

Welcome back.....www.rmarkayers.com!! After a brief lapse...you can once again access my blog through www.rmarkayers.com. You can also still access it through www.markayerslive.net. So however you want to access you can...thanks for being a faithful reader!!

To The Anonymous

I will say this only one time so pay close attention. I apologize in advance for the tone of this blog.

To those anonymous comment leavers...I would just like to say the following. You are just as free to express your opinions as am I. I choose to let my thoughts and opinion on certain matters be public on my blog. I have made it possible for you to leave your comments and opinions freely. I have also made my email public on the website so that you can personally email me with your thoughts. Because I have done the aforementioned things on my blog it is obvious that I am open to dialogue and discussion on the topics which I post. Please pay me the same courtesy by allowing me to respond to your disagreements, and let us engage in dialogue instead of hiding behind your absurd screen names and making it impossible for me to respond. I am open, but by the way you choose to mask yourself you have proven that you are not. It is a sad and poor thing for you to be so one sided and close minded. You who choose to remain anonymous have demonstrated that you are prideful, arrogant, and quite simply....a coward. I dare you to send me an email and open yourself to a dialogue...otherwise keep your comments to yourself and quit wasting the energy and my time. Have a nice day!!!

My Friday 7

1. I am not sick this weekend....and I am excited about that!
2. We are getting really close to nailing a location down....that is pretty darn exciting!!
3. Noah's 1st B-day party is Saturday....I love that kid, I just can't believe it has already been a year!!
4. Being Noah's dad (and the baby girl coming soon) and Heather's husband is one of the greatest joy's of my life!!
5. I can't believe that my 1 year mentoring under Pastor Johnny is almost over...we crammed a lot into 1 year and it went by super fast....it has been AWESOME!!
6. I hope Ohio State destroys LSU in the Nat'l title game...of course if they do they might give them a 2nd shot at it...possibly even a 3rd
7. Freedom...I am so pumped for those guys!!! I love them...all of them from staff to the launch team...I am praying for you all....God is about to rock the face off of Acworth, GA!!!!

Opposition

As I search for a place to plant a church I'm discovering some opposition. The opposition has come in various forms. Sometimes you have to determine whether something is opposition or if its something to lead you away from making the wrong decision. Other times you know its opposition and you have to be careful not to get discouraged, and if you do get discouraged you can't stay there long. You have to move past the discouraging opposition and hold fast to the call that God has placed on your life. Opposition will be at every intersection of this journey. I've been told by many wise who have gone and are going before me that the opposition never stops, it just goes through costume changes along the way. With that in mind there is only one thing that can keep you in this...the call of God.

Traveling Man

The search continues for a location of planting the church (that has a name that is not being shared currently) which means I have been traveling around and having several meetings. Today Shea and I are sitting a quaint little coffee shop in a potential area and doing some work. We feel we are close to solidifying a location. Keep praying as we keep pursuing....and I promise we will keep you posted.