Posted on October 13, 2009 - by Stephen Murray

New York Trip: Part VII

New York – Knoxville – New York. That’s been our movement over the weekend. On Friday morning at 3am we got up and flew out of Newark Airport to Knoxville, Tennessee. There we spent the weekend with folk from Cedar Springs Presbyterian. Most of the weekend was spent meeting people from the church and speaking at young adults meetings, Sunday morning and evening. On the Saturday we were treated to the experience that makes that city tick: A college football game at the 107 000 seater Neyland Stadium watching the Tennessee Volunteers (the ‘Vols’) take on the Georgia Bulldogs (the ‘Dawgs’). There were 103 000 people in attendance all dressed in orange going crazy over their team – it was something else.

We were hosted by the most wonderful South African family who are now based in Knoxville and we got a great chance to share the vision for a church planting movement in Cape Town with lots of the folk at the church, many of whom were encouraged by the potential opportunities there are in South Africa.

This morning we arrived back in New York – where someone has evidently turned the heat off (its seriously cold here now). We’ve got one more week of the intensive left and then we head out on Friday to visit the Journey Church in St Louis. Will keep you posted…