Visiting Spokane, Washington

Well, we've decided to go see Spokane, Washington. Our plan is to leave after work on Thursday, July 31 and drive to somewhere in North Dakota where we hope to find someone to spend the night with. If you know of anyone in ND along I94 that would put us up for the night, please let me know. It's 19 hours to Spokane by car. We hope to arrive before dinner on Friday. Dan has a meeting set up with the district Superintendent for Saturday morning. We hope to tour the town and perhaps visit an apartment or two if possible. We will attend His Place Church in Post Fall, ID on Sunday where Dan would intern. There is a world class golf course in Coeur D'Alene, ID just 8 miles from Post Falls. I'm sure I won't have to twist Dan's arm to much to go check it out. Perhaps there will be room for our clubs in the little Ford Focus we are renting for our ride out. We will head back Sunday afternoon and hope to get to mid Montana. Once again, if you know anyone in that area that would take us in, please let me know... We will finish our drive home on Monday and hopefully have enough time to recuperate for our return to work on Tuesday.

I would like to ask for prayer. First for a safe trip and second, that we would hear God's voice. Dan and I are excited about this opportunity but we don't want to go there unless God wants us there. Pray that we would have the ears to hear.

A New Toy and Way For Communication

I just learned about this whole blogging thing. I know, I'm a bit behind. I thought this might be a nice way to keep you all informed on what is going on in the lives of Dan & Jamie Henderson.

As many of you know, Dan will be completed with all his requirements from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School at the end of this August. Currently he is interning at Cornerstone Church of Blaine. It's been an incredible opportunity for Dan and he is learning so many things, including preaching. - He preaches next on July 27 in case you want to come here. 10:00Am at the Blaine High school.

Dan is feeling led to become a Church Planter. We are currently looking at three different possibilities and I'm getting excited/antsy to begin.

1. Medford, OR - this project is still in the beginning planning stages. It sounds like there are some churches in town that would like an Evangelical Free church to join them. Dan and I will need to take (and pass?) a lengthy church planting assessment for this project and we just got phase one in the mail yesterday.

2. Airway Heights, WA (Near Spokane)- We are still finding out info on this. It sounds like there was a church, is no longer a church, but wants to be a church again. We are very excited about this possibility and are planning a road trip the first weekend in August to go visit them. I'll post more info on them as I know more.

3. Ron, the pastor at Cornerstone, asked Dan if he might like to do a one year church planting internship with him. I think the idea is that Dan would continue to learn the areas of the church and what would be involved in starting another church. Cornerstone is a 5 year old church plant so Ron would be a good mentor for this. They have also talked about planting another church at sometime in the future and Dan may be a good candidate for that position.