New Staff….
This has been a GREAT summer for us at RSC. Matter of fact, it has been a blast and as much fun as I have had since planting. I am loving the summer series we have going on, the vibe in the church has been buzzing, the attendance has been very good, and we are paying the bills (always a good thing in a church plant).
We have spent the summer gearing up for the fall. You can seriously feel the buzz about the upcoming fall.
To shore up some weak points and to gear us up for the upcoming growth, we have added two new people to our full-time staff here at The Stone.
Malcolm Young (no blog yet) - If you are a Stoner, you will know Malcolm as the bass player in the band. Malcolm and his wife Amy, have been attending the stone since day one. Over the last two years God had built a a bond between the two of us and I consider him one of my best friends in the world. Malcolm has served as a trustee here since the start and has moved from that role to being on staff as our Connections Pastor. He will be over Small Groups and Assimiliation. He has a heart for getting people plugged in, which is good because I have a heart for getting people in the front door. He started with us June 15th and already we are seeing the results.
John Ventry - Yep, everything has been worked out where I can finally reveal that John will be coming on staff as our Adminstrative Pastor. I actually met John in the bloggin world and over the last year, we have become very good friends. Through joking around about him moving here, God began to move in his heart and we brought him up for a visit and we clicked instantly. I knew we were going to bring John on staff from the start, but I didn’t tell him until he decided to actually move to the area and just be part of the church. John is going to take over the business side of the church. This is a mess here and it will be nice to have someone who actually knows about budgets, systems, IT junk, salary stuff, PO’s, etc. This is such a mess here that our staff is literally counting the days until John gets here. He moves next Wednesday and will be coming in and out of the office all month before starting full-time on Septemeber 1. Go check his family out on his blog and tell him to get his church information changed. 
John will be in the service starting next week. I’m not going to tell anyone who he is so the first Ridge Stoner who figures it out will get some kind of surprise.
This two hires were both hires of faith. We could not afford them. But we knew God wanted them here and we stepped out on faith to make it happen and it is and will continue to work.
Two weeks until school starts and we are blasting off!!!!