So - we are transitioning our campus, The Journey: Metro East, into an independent local church. As a result, we will be forming our own mission statement, core values, and, of course, a name. Since we are a daughter church of The Journey, we will bear many similarities to our mother church - it is simply in our DNA. But we did have to come up with a new name. Easy enough right? Yeah, right. We started by brainstorming possible names - and came up with an initial list easy enough. The initial list was long but got shorter as we weeded out all the sarcastic suggestions. It was eventually shortened to a few that seemed to stand out to us. We were looking for names that would have spiritual significance and would speak to our unique identity in the Metro East. A conversation with one of my leaders drove home the importance of a church name. She was walking far from God in 2005 when she was driving through Maplewood and saw one of ou...
A man made of mud learning to live as an image bearer of God