As you may or may not know, Engage is a part of a family or network of churches called the Brethren in Christ. Great people, antiquated name. The name was useful at one point about 100 years ago when everyone was your brethren. Not so much anymore, eh? Regardless, we are proud to be a part of this family of caring, generous, and supportive community of churches. Engage is funded in part from the generosity of the BIC. All of the churches who are a part of the BIC send a portion of their money (up to 10% per year) into a cooperative pot called “Cooperative Ministries”. This past summer the CM people called me and featured Engage in their yearly publication that goes out to all of their churches to promote the great use of their money for places like Engage. So here is a little snapshot of what they said, but after I posted it I realized you probably can’t read it. So I will include it at the bottom if your my mom or grandma and actually want to take the time to read it. Thanks mom!! I can always count on you to download my stuff 
Really, thought, this article hits the reason why we started Engage and why we think it matters. Last Sunday we interviewed some new friends to Engage. It was incredible to hear two very professional and seemingly self-sufficient people share how they are finding meaning, real joy, and contentment because of their new relationship with Christ. My friend (we will call him Jason) at one point choked up as he began to describe how confused or lost he felt on an existential level before beginning to explore faith in Jesus at Engage. He said, “It’s like we were looking for something but didn’t know what it was or how to find it.” Jason and his wife were looking for what they could not find and are starting to find it in Jesus. Again, I go back to my little blurb in the article. Unless people are becoming connected to healthy Christian community they simply will not be able to experience a real, life-changing, world-altering relationship with Christ. Just doesn’t happen. I am proud to be a part of this kind of imperfect community of faith.
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