Sunday
This Sunday I’m talking about, “Thankful For What?” With the bad news we are receiving everyday with the economy and jobs, etc. it’s easy to get down in the dumps. The Word tells us how to deal with that. The Bible talks about Thanksgiving produces joy…how? we’ll talk about that this Sunday. “The more we’re […] Read More
Men’s Conference and Being Back This Sunday
Last weekend I had the privilege of being at the High Desert Church Men’s Conference near Big Bear. What a great weekend, thanks to all the guys from HDC for asking me to come, I had a great time. I also got to visit 7 High Desert and loved being there again talking with so […] Read More
Ummm, yep…Baptisms Rock!
8 people took the plunge, great stories, great day. Read More
New Series
We are beginning a brand new teaching series next week called “TXT…The most important text you’ll ever get.” We’re really looking forward to digging into the Bible and helping people see the basics and the depth of what the Bible is and how it is relevant to our life today. Our goal is that everybody […] Read More
7 SD in the News
The San Diego Union Tribune wrote an article about our new church it’s on the front page of the “Metro”, “South County”, “East County” and “Our Region” sections today. Here is the direct link check it out.http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080925-9999-1ez25pastor.html Read More
10 Things after 10 Years
Today We Celebrate our 10th Anniversary 10 Things I Know After 10 Years with my Jane 1. I Love her more2. Morning coffee with her tastes better3. Continuing to have dates is a must4. She’s even prettier today5. She’s a great mommy6. She’s my best friend7. I love spending time with her8. Clear communication is […] Read More
A Good Start
All in all today went great. Wolf Canyon looks like it will be a good home for us. It was hard for people to find but the 20 or so signs we had all over town seemed to help people find their way. There is so much potential for what we can do at this […] Read More
Moving Time – SEPTEMBER 14
I know it’s been 6 months since our last move and we were well over due. So, beginning Sunday, September 14, we, The Seven San Diego church family are moving again. AND, we are very excited about it. The new facility is called Wolf Canyon Elementary School. Hit the link to check it out. http://www.cvesd.org/wolfcanyon/default.aspx […] Read More
Charger Season
Charger pre-season officially began on Saturday with a thrashing of the Dallas Cowboys. I know it’s only pre-season but if we’re keeping score I want to win and it was nice to get off to a great start. There are high expectations for the Bolts this year and we’re hoping for a Super Bowl. Whenever […] Read More
Mt. Hermon
Mt. Hermon was once again a great week. This was our 7th year in a row going to the Coastal Redwoods conference center. Every year the kids look forward to it. This year it was even more special. The kids were extra hyper in wanting to get there. They started asking about it 2 months […] Read More
4th of July Weekend Not the Blues
4th of July weekend for churches is hold your breath time and hope people show up…unfortunately…however we are very happy to report that we had a great start to July. 4th of July weekend was a win!! We finished up our mini-series called “Wasting Time with God.” Wesley Van Fleet did a great job of […] Read More
Breakfast at Wimbledon and church
I’m not a huge tennis fan, but the final at Wimbledon I will watch. As a kid I used to watch Boris Becker, Stefan Edberg, Mats Wilander, Jimmy Connors and John McEnroe go at it at Wimbledon. It was the only thing on TV during the summer on ESPN and my TV was absolutely stuck […] Read More
U.S. OPEN EXPERIENCE
Riley and I had the great opportunity to be at the US OPEN golf tournament on Saturday June 14. It’s been one of my goals to experience The Open and it lived up to all I could have hoped. It was extra special because it’s Father’s Day weekend and Riley got to go with me. […] Read More
Office Time
Just a quick intro to our worship leader Koby Orr. He just got back from his honeymoon…notice the smile! And this is Roberto and a quick view on Friday as we get ready for a great Sunday![youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiBfMucIHtU&hl=en] Read More
Beachin’ It
We have been given the opportunity to stay at our friend’s beach house in Mission Beach for free! What a great place. There’s just something about the beach the calms and relaxes the moment we smell the ocean air. The water has been great, Aidan has been full of sand most of the time, Riley […] Read More
12 Baptisms
Awesome Sunday. 12 people baptized, very exciting to have our first people take the plunge into Otay Lake near our church. see the pictures at http://gallery.mac.com/jmcgarity#100023 Read More
Goin’ to Rehab
Our brand new series is called Relationship Rehab. We’re looking at Rethink, Restore and Rediscover your Relationships. Yesterday was the first in the series. We honored Mom’s and talked about God’s Design for the family. We’ve got some really creative people on our team who came up with the idea to give away free family […] Read More
Sabbath Smabbath
Ok, I sinned. I’ve asked for forgiveness, I confessed it to the congregation this weekend. I have violated the sabbath. I haven’t had a true “off day” in a long time. I haven’t taken a sabbath. The fourth commandment was ignored in my life for a while. There were only 9 commandments I followed. However, […] Read More
Orlando Daze…. and Me and My Buddy Rick Warren
I’m in Orlando at the National New Church Conference. Also know as Exponential. http://www.exponentialconference.org/ We (Roberto and I) are enjoying our time learning, connecting, and networking with other new churches and pastors. We have learned much. Or, at least attempted to, there is a lot here, my notebook is as full as my belly (lots […] Read More
Moving Again
The Apartment at Camden Sierra has served us well for the past three months and it is now time to move into a house. We have found a rental across the street from the Otay Ranch Town Center (where they built our church)…of course we let them use the building for an AMC movie theater […] Read More
