Seed Austin

We’re finally in Austin and getting settled into our new house, new community, new city and newest addition to the Sherman family (Caleb Van Sherman is now eight weeks). Right now the Seed Austin movement is still just a movement as we haven’t launched into a full-blown church yet. As we’ve told many of you, we plan to meet with a core team of 35-50 people—friends and acquaintances that we already had in Austin as well as about 15 others that have moved from Omaha—until mid-October or so until we launch. We will still gather together on Sunday evenings starting on August 1, but our weekly time will be more of a training time for the massive endeavor we are about to begin. Once we “go public” in the Fall, whatever internal DNA we have as a core group will only replicate itself to the rest of the church, so we want to make sure that we have like-minded mission, purpose, vocabulary, etc.

So until August 1, we are meeting with folks who are interested in being a part of the core team and/or church, preparing resources, building relationships in our new neighborhoods, and spending time with our families in the calm before the storm. This week I’ve (Nathan) been working on a recommended reading and resource list for our church that might be helpful for you if you’re looking for good books to read (many of them for free on Google Books). We should have that up on our website soon (www.seedaustin.net), and we’ll put a link to that on the blog as well. If you haven’t been to our website yet, please do. There is some really great content there as well as pictures and bio’s of the rest of our team, so you can put names to faces and faces to a movement.

Please continue to pray for us, especially in the coming few months. Pray that God might strengthen our marriage and family in greater knowledge of Him. Pray that the relationships that we are building now might be cultivated into life-altering Gospel ministry for many. Pray for humility and eagerness to serve from our church leadership. And ultimately pray that the name of Jesus Christ might be worshipped and glorified because of the work that is being done in Austin!

Here are a few pictures of our growing boys-