So when Ashlee and I decided to follow God’s desire for us, namely to come to Tampa to plant the next Aletheia church, we left everything that was comfortable and stable to us. I had a stable job with steady income. We did not have to worry about our financial situation from month to month. [...]
Archive for February, 2010
I’m sitting here at the hospital in Ashlee’s bed, with Asher, while his mom is taking a shower. We are waiting to get discharged (poor choice of words in my book but that is the correct hospital lingo)…I prefer released. It’s been a roller coaster ride of a weekend that began at 8am on Saturday [...]
This past week (Feb. 14th), I was teaching out of 1 Peter 2:9 at Aletheia Tampa and I got a little fired up. Graham Cochrane thought it would make for some good sermon jam material and well, here you go…
As I think back to the births of my first two sons, I can honestly say that I took a lot of things for granted. I really didn’t pay much attention to the boys when they were hanging out in mom’s belly. I just figured what I couldn’t see really wasn’t a part of my [...]
Aletheia Tampa’s newest ministry
Posted: 10th February 2010 by ap in Aletheia Ministry Stuff, Church PlantingTowards the end of last year, I started to become discouraged about the lack of interest from our people to do evangelism. Evangelism is such an important part of what we do at Aletheia (it is one of our core values). We do it specifically and intentionally, just like Paul did as we see this [...]
A recent update I sent out to our supporters
Posted: 2nd February 2010 by ap in Proffitt Family HappeningsAs most of you know, when Ashlee and I stepped out in faith to lead the charge with the new Aletheia church plant in Tampa nearly a year ago now, we decided to leave a very comfortable life which included a set salary, set health insurance, and a comfortable job. And so many of you [...]