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Street Preacher Survival Guide: A Downtown Sarnia First Friday Installation

See More Art Installations… With the arrival guide of street preachers downtown theStory wanted to offer some lightheartedness and clarification to the situation. There was way too many folks asking us what was going on, getting upset at their message (or the way they were presenting the message). So we setup four of these little …

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Lent Service – Proclaim

As I mentioned before, we are working with some Anglican churches in Sarnia to have some Lent gatherings together. We had our first gathering at 2pm and it was excellent. Thanks to all the Anglican ladies that showed us how to have a discussion! We are following six marks of mission of the Anglican church …

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Guest Post: theStory, Sarnia: A Ridiculously Abbreviated Reflection on Chapter One

This is a guest post by Joe Manafo. Joe and I started theStory (a church in Sarnia, Ontario) four years ago together. Since he has given up on some aspects of technology (oddly, Twitter is is chosen method of communication, @joemanafo) and doesn’t have a blog, he needed to get this off his chest. It …

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The Bishop comes to Sarnia

Bishop Keith Elford came to Sarnia this past Sunday to ordain Barb Peterson and also joined us for our Sunday morning gathering at theStory.  He wrote about us in his latest bishop notes which was kinda cool.  What is very different about planting a church with a denomination is that you are usually partaking on …

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New theStory Website

We have a new website for theStory. This one is a lot more functional and user friendly. The website will now manage our library that we are trying to start that will host everyone’s books and not just books in a central spot. The site will also manage all the ATIC things we are trying. …

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The New Space

Nov 1 we signed the papers and got a new space for theStory. We got it right downtown where we wanted to be. It’s been completely renovated from floors to ceilings to fire code and we couldn’t be happier. It’s two storefronts side by side. You can see the picture below. We have a sign …

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Building Price Drops $80,000

For the record. The building I talked about here, that would make a beautiful addition to the mission of theStory has just dropped in price. It was listed at $240,000 and now is listed at $180,000 and the real estate agent just called us and said that if we could make an offer around $150,000 …

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Buildings and Dreams

Along with church planting is dealing with shattered dreams and ideals. Whether they are dreams of a few days or dreams of a few years, they all don’t, if any go as planned. Since we have started thinking about planting theStory we have tossed around the idea of having a storefront in downtown Sarnia as …

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theStory Inside the City

It is odd, encouraging and a bit scary to me that more people all over the world that read occasionally on the internet have a better idea of what’s going on with our church plant (theStory) than my neighbour does. In fact, I don’t think my neighbour knows that I’ve started a church. There are …

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theStory Day 1

After it was all over, Joe, Darryl and I were sitting there and I looked at them and I said “well, we did it, we just planted a church.” (theStory) I don’t have a clue what that means. I don’t know how to plant a church. I don’t even know if that’s what we are …

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