Daniel Farrell

This map of the US(ht: Richard Florida) explains a bit why I felt like I entered a different country when moving to Virginia. We moved into Baptist country apparently.

Well, I promised a follow-up with some highlights of the teachings. Of course I’m a slacker and I’ve not done that, but here is the audio from the Ecclesia Gathering. Enjoy.

My poor wife has been puking all day. And by all day I mean since 6am this morning and it’s still going on almost 11 hours later. Hopefully it will finish up soon and she’ll be able to recover some before the week starts.

Update: The puking stopped last night around 6 after 12 long hours. She has pretty much slept since then. She was able to hold down some food this morning and is on the road to recovery.

This past week I was up in Chevy Chase, MD for a few days at the Ecclesia Network National Gathering. Brent, Eric and I went up together. It was a pretty great time. I got to connect with a lot of great people, some I met there and some that I haven’t seen in a while(lots of VT people from NLCF).

We also got to hear from David Fitch and Alan and Deb Hirsch plus a couple of breakout sessions(I went to JR and Todd’s sessions). I’ll post some highlights from the teaching(and links to audio when they go up) in the near future.

We had some time to be social too. The first night a bunch of people wanted to smoke cigars so we went out to Ozio. It is quite the amazing place if you are into cigars and martini’s. I was disappointed with their beer selection and wasn’t smoking, but it was good to hang out. The next night we hit up the local Rock Bottom and enjoyed a couple good beers and good hangout time. On our afternoon break we got to hit up The Potter’s House with Clay and Leslie(longtime friends and co-pastors of Horizon Owings Mills). I have a ton of respect for the different things that The Church of The Saviour has done in DC and it was neat to see one of their churches/ministries/missions.

You will have to wait patiently for hightlights from the teachings, but I promise they are coming.

I’ll be heading up to DC(well, Maryland side) for the Ecclesia National Gathering tomorrow morning with Brent and Eric. I’m looking forward to connecting/re-connecting with some awesome people and dreaming some. Also we get to hear from/hang out with Alan Hirsch and David Fitch. Don’t know how much I’ll be online, but you can expect to hear at least the highlights sometime.