After long bouts of emailing, we finally had the chance to meet up with “Kim & Danny Iverson”:http://www.fromscarlet.com/ here in Newark, NJ. They’re a couple from Atlanta who are passionately laboring to build a church just 10 minutes away in a decidedly shady part of Newark. Ever since Sarah met Kim at a baby shower for a mutal friend, we’ve been meaning to get together with them and had a really great time.
The night yielded a number of coincidences that suprised all of us, not the least of which being that Danny has been reading my “Everything Newark”:http://blog.newarker.info blog for weeks. We heard about their desires to meet the needs of the really poor and needy in their area and mentor kids from the run-down junior high school across the street — real front-line, inner-city work. I found out that Danny’s also a Mac-head who wants to put together a compelling tech-oriented program for kids to record and produce music and video.
Sarah and I were really encouraged to spend time with a couple so engaged in rebuilding their neighborhood for the sake of the Gospel and, by the evening, were trying to figure out ways we could help out. :)
Sunday, we got to congratulate “Tom & Alissa”:http://kennsarah.net/2006/05/22/proposal/ in person, hear Sam “tell a story”:http://www.villagechurchnyc.com/worship/sermons/2006/05/no-moss-gathered/, and head over to the Posegates’ for lunch with the family. It was really good to see everyone again. Being in the city and working these jobs often means we don’t get out to the ‘burbs nearly “often enough”:http://www.flickr.com/photos/kennsarah/tags/memorialday/.
Oh, and today I’m selling my Palm Vx, so “go bid on it”:http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=9733830024!
