Tim has been a friend since 1997 when I was the senior pastor at First Baptist Church in Homer, New York and he was the senior pastor of Church of the Resurrection (Assembly of God) in Syracuse, New York.
We hit it off, became good friends and have really enjoyed being on the journey together. We don't see each other as much as we use to. I am now in York, working at Living Word Community Church and Tim is the senior pastor of Church of the Revelation (Assembly of God) in the Bronx, New York.
It was great to connect with Tim again and to hear all that is going on in his new ministry. I got together with Tim (one of our LCI Partners) because Tim will be doing a week course for LCI on Spiritual Leadership in Chile in November. We met to talk about that course and also look at other possibilities for Tim's involvement with LCI.
Tim is also going to Moscow late summer to do a pastor's conference and will be speaking on leadership issues at that conference. (That is not an LCI trip, but is one through his denominational connections.)
Anyway, it was a good time being with a good friend. It makes me realize that there are good friends I have who live great distances away and we just don't connect too often. That is one of the "sadnesses" of life on this planet. And it makes the times of being together even more important.
I hope you'll each have some good times in the near future with good friends and good conversation with those friends.
Brian Rice
