Read the special Provincial Assembly 2017 issue of the Mid-Atlantic Messenger - now online!

I never expected to end up in the city. I’m the son of farmers and truck drivers from Central Pennsylvania. In 2006, I was challenged by Heidi Baker’s testimony to “go where only the Gospel could make a difference.” I felt the Lord guide us into East Baltimore, one of the most challenged neighborhoods in our region.

We’re launching a new series here on DOMACAST where we’re focusing on the mission and ministry of church planting and church health. This work in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic is led by what’s called the Great Commission Committee—or the GCC. Tom Herrick, Canon for Church Planting for the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic—as well as the Executive Director of the Titus Institude—is chair of the GCC. We asked Tom to be our first guest in this series we call “Into the Harvest.”

We're kicking off a special series over the next several months in the Mid-Atlantic Messenger where we'll be focusing on the mission and ministry of church planting and church health in the Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic.

At his Last Supper with his disciples, Jesus washed his disciples’ feet. Footwashing was viewed as a humiliating, degrading task, done by the lowest ranking servant. And so his action was completely unexpected, even perplexing to his disciples.