Black Friday
4:00am22 Gallons of Starbucks Coffee.35 dozen donuts.25 dozen donut holes….GONE! all of it!!!500 people, Wal-Mart the day after Thanksgiving Seven San Diego was there to serve the 500 or so people standing in line waiting for bargains at the Wal-Mart in Otay Ranch. We used it all up (except for a few donut holes consumed […] Read More
Gone Fishing
The McGarity Boys went fishing. My brother and his boys and my boys had an overnight fishing trip on Nov. 16-17. A tradition has begun. I think the last time I went fishing was with my dad when I was in High School. I don’t want these precious moments when my boys are young to […] Read More
Today
Good study day today. Had lots of time at Barnes and Noble (that’s our Seven SD office East County). I dropped off our Suburban at Pep Boys (where my Dad works as a mechanic). Three of my best friends are there…Manny, Moe, and Jack. They’ve seen a lot of me lately, love those guys. The […] Read More
The C’s are Back!
Just a quick rant about my Celtics. This could be the year! The Celtics look good…good….The acquistion of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen has proven that Danny Ainge is the right man for the job with the C’s! They absolutely throttled the Nuggets last night! We had 78 points in the first half having built […] Read More
PREVIEW #2
Woo Hoo! #2…Preview #2 is now history. 166 people made their way to Seven San Diego. We are halfway to our offical launch date on February 10, 2008. It is rapidly approaching. As part of the building process predictions from Church plant experts and other church leaders said you can expect about 50% of your […] Read More
Trunk R’ Treat and Block Party in Otay Ranch
Copy this link into your browser FOR PICTURES OF THE TRUNK R’ TREAT. http://s242.photobucket.com/albums/ff157/sevensandiego/ The Trunk R’ Treat went awesome! We were pleasantly surprised with the turnout. I think there was about 300 or so, my wife thinks more like 200 or so but I like the evange-lastic- number better. Still, by just doing door […] Read More
Riley Boy is 7
My big boy turned 7. What a great day we had. He got a ton of gifts including a skateboard. We took the board out for its maiden voyage and whamo! we’ve got a 7 year old Tony Hawk…he stood on the board and push it a bit and cruised around the sk8 park. It’s […] Read More
Date Night
I love dating my wife! After a few hectic weeks my wife and I finally got a chance to have a date! Granted it was after we put the kids to bed and left them with Grandma. And there wasn’t much action at Parkway Plaza being that it was closed and we arrived there at […] Read More
Chargers Help Get Things Back To "Normal"
After hundreds of thousands of acres scorched the Chargers scorched the Texans and helped the healing process here in SD. It seems like everyone has been affected by these fires in one way or another. Whether it’s someone directly affected by losing their home or someone we know who is related to someone or we […] Read More
San Diego Responds to the Wildfires
The fires have taken their toll in the area here in San Diego. These pictures are of San Miguel mountain last night. It’s burning from Chula Vista to Rancho San Diego and Spring Valley. We just got word that they are evacuating Rancho San Diego (which is where we are today at Janie’s parent’s house). […] Read More
Preview #1
We’ve got preview service #1 under our belt! What a great feeling to see the people show up on October 7. 261 people made their way to Seven San Diego Church and we were thrilled to have them. All in all the service went extremely well. We certainly have things to improve on and things […] Read More
Practice, Practice..and Office Update
Someone once said, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” It’s been about a year a half now of thoughful prayer, consideration that turned into planning and determination and now we are here. We are about to have our first ever service in sunny San Diego, America’s Finest City. But first, we must […] Read More
Game Time!
I’m sitting here watching Tigger and Pooh with my 3 year old thinking about tomorrow. We get our equipment from Portable Church and we have our training and practice services this weekend. You can see the outside of our program on the left. We had a little setback when I got a call from PCI […] Read More
SOLD!
Great News, Answered Prayer! We just got word that our home in Apple Valley is SOLD! Not only that but the buyers are going to pay CASH. Which means a very short escrow period (20 Days). Pretty amazing in this market that the Lord would bring someone to pay cash for our home. Thanks for […] Read More
My Boy, His Front Tufus and our Mexico Trip
Riley lost his second front tooth tonight. The thing has been hanging on by a thread for the last few days. So, a little incentive was in order…Five Bucks if he let us pull it out. Well Daddy got the pliers and a wash cloth and….no luck….it took Mama’s touch. Tweezers and a napkin and […] Read More
Olympian HS Football, Servant Evangelism, Updates
You know what, it’s nice to get a win. Here’s what I mean. We had 23 volunteers at Olympian HS on Friday Night for Olympian High School’s first ever home football game in their brand new stadium. We threw out T-Shirts that said, “I was there” 09-07-07 with the Olympian HS Eagle logo on them. […] Read More
Fundraiser Jer
That’s me fundraiser Jer. It’s amazing how many meetings one can have where I am simply asking for funds to help our new church get started on the right foot. A lot of people are not comfortable asking for money. Let me tell you I am very comfortable. You know why? Because I am asking […] Read More
Seven San Diego, High Desert Church, PCI, Divine appt… and many more!
I’m sitting in Starbucks in Otay Ranch Town Center in Chula Vista, getting ready to fire off this blog and I look up and see our latest advertisement on the Starbucks community board (the orange “Ineed a life” cards) must be the work of Roberto and his cohorts! I love it!!! I am fired up […] Read More
Mt. Hermon, Seven San Diego and the Padres
We are headed to Mt. Hermon in Santa Cruz, CA. This is a trip we look forward to every year. www.mounthermon.org. We will be there for a week listening to good speakers, hanging out with good friends and enjoying the services of Mt. Hermon’s children’s programs and taking in the cool coastal weather we find […] Read More
Seven San Diego Coming Together
I am thrilled to report that we had a great meeting today at Skyline Church. We borrowed one of their 4th floor rooms and team members from the High Desert made the 2 1/2 hour trip so we all could be together in San Diego. Since the PD Planting conference was postponed I decided we […] Read More
