Jupiter Studios Got Robbed

Our Wallingford neighbors Jupiter Studios got rob – here is a link with more info.

Anchor Church’s Gospel Communities – This is who we are & what we do.

Anchor Launches

Anchor Launches

Our one Gospel Community is about to turn into three and Anchor is ramping up for our first public gathering.

In May a handful of guys who considered becoming Anchor Church started praying at my house at 7 in the morning asking God’s Spirit to move in our new community. In June, a core started to meet for potlucks.  In July, we formed our first Gospel Community, outgrew my living room, and started gathering in Wallingford on Sundays to worship Jesus and cast the vision of Anchor Church.  Now we are ramping up to “launch.”

Our oversized Gospel Community is ready to send out  two new ones to Greenwood and Eastlake, to live as redeemed disciples sent to be light in Seattle. With this sending comes our first official public gathering at 11am on September 13, at the Wallingford Boys and Girls Club (1310 N 45th Street 98103).  We will be going through the Letter to the Hebrews, line by line, as long as it takes through this amazing Jesus focused book.

It has been an honor these last few months to lead this community.  God’s Spirit has been going ahead of us and it is so exciting to see Jesus at work in Seattle and  in our community.  Please pray for Anchor as we move into this next season.

Our one Gospel Community is about to turn into three and Anchor is ramping up for our first public gathering.

In May a handful of guys who considered becoming Anchor Church started praying at my house at 7 in the morning asking God’s Spirit to move in our new community. In June, a core started to meet for potlucks.  In July, we formed our first Gospel Community, outgrew my living room, and started gathering in Wallingford on Sundays to worship Jesus and cast the vision of Anchor Church.  Now we are ramping up to “launch.”

Our oversized Gospel Community is ready to send out  two new ones to Greenwood and Eastlake, to live as redeemed disciples sent to be light in Seattle. With this sending comes our first official public gathering at 11am on September 13, at the Wallingford Boys and Girls Club (1310 N 45th Street 98103).  We will be going through the Letter to the Hebrews, line by line, as long as it takes through this amazing Jesus focused book.

It has been an honor these last few months to lead this community.  God’s Spirit has been going ahead of us and it is so exciting to see Jesus at work in Seattle and  in our community.  Please pray for Anchor as we move into this next season.

John 21 @ Alathia Community Church

We are blessed to partner with our sister church, Alathia in Issaquah.  Not only are they bowing in for us with earnest prayer, but blessing us with support as well.  Their elders have been very generous with their time in sharing with us what they have learned in church planting.  Pastor Paul Dean also invited me to take his pulpit last Sunday and welcomed our core to crash their gathering.  It was super encouraging to see people from our two churches come together to worship our one God, Jesus.  It is an honor to serve this region with other Acts 29 Network churches like Alathia.  You can find my sermon on John 21 here.

We are already meeting as a Gospel Community and next Sunday we will gather for word and song at 2pm. If you would like more information on joining the Anchor core please email info@anchorseattle.org.

The Next Step

Last Wednesday we met to pray, sing songs to Jesus and lay out the vision for Anchor Church.  You can download the audio here.

This weekend Anchor will be rallying out to Issaquah to gather with Alathia Community Church (a sister A29 plant) at 10am, where I will be serving as the guest preacher. Afterwards, all are welcome to head back to Seattle for an Anchor BBQ at 4pm.

Next week Anchor Church will begin our first Gospel Community. We will also start gathering on Sundays at 2pm as I preach through our identities and rhythms for the Anchor core.

If you are interested in joining Anchor or would like information please email info@anchorseattle.org

Anchor Grows By One

It looks like we get to put a baby dedication on the calendar. This morning at 3:16am beautiful Ruby Jean Hanson was born to members of our core Jeremy & Aleina.  By God’s grace she came quickly, arriving without complications.  My wife and I had a chance to visit them and ask for Jesus’ blessing on Ruby.  Please keep them in your prayers as they begin life as three.

Anchor Vision & Info Meeting – June 24th @ 6:30pm

On the last Wednesday of the month we will hold an Anchor Church info meeting.  I will be laying out the vision for the community Jesus is bringing together and the city He has called us to serve.  We will talk about what it looks like for Anchor to be on the ground in the Wallingford/Fremont/Phinney area and how we want to reach out to spread The Gospel here.  Our hope is to be a Christ exalting, Jesus focused, Spirit lead, missional church, sent to Seattle to reach out to a people that have no idea who Jesus is.

This meeting is for two kinds of people: 1) Those who are considering joining this new gospel work who want to learn more and have their questions answered as well as  2) those who care about church planting and/or this specific community.

We will gather for song, vision casting, Q&A, and prayer at 6:30pm on Wednesday June 24, at Emmanuel Bible Church (503 N 50th St, 98103) on Phinney Ridge.  Coffee & snacks to follow.

Anchor is a Biblically orthodox, missional church plant and is a part of the Acts 29 Network. If you have any questions please email anchorseattle@gmail.com.

On the last Wednesday of the month we will hold an Anchor Church info meeting.  I will be laying out the vision for the community Jesus is bringing together and the city He has called us to serve.  We will talk about what it looks like for Anchor to be on the ground in the Wallingford/Fremont/Phinney area and how we want to reach out to spread The Gospel here.  Our hope is to be a Christ exalting, Jesus focused, Spirit lead, missional church, sent to Seattle to reach out to a people that have no idea who Jesus is.

This meeting is for two kinds of people: 1) Those who are considering joining this new gospel work who want to learn more and have their questions answered as well as  2) those who care about church planting and/or this specific community.

We will gather for song, vision casting, Q&A, and prayer at 6:30pm on Wednesday June 24, at Emmanuel Bible Church (503 N 50th St, 98103) on Phinney Ridge.  Coffee & snacks to follow.

Anchor is a biblically orthodox, missional church plant and is a part of the Acts 29 Network. If you have any questions please email anchorseattle@gmail.com.

The Visible Engine – Prayer

One of my deepest convictions for Anchor is that we need to be a people of prayer. We are just ramping up, and in anticipation, the men who are called by Jesus to be a part of this community are coming together regularly to ask that He would send His Spirit to act first. If our hope is to see the city changed and lives renewed by the Gospel then we need to ask, expectant that Jesus will move through His Spirit.  We need to plead like Abraham for mercy for the city (Genesis 18) and confess like Daniel our corporate sins (Daniel 9), we need to plead with blood earnestness for His help.  Our men are gathering to ask for the city, for the churches of the city, and for Anchor Church specifically, that God would do something through His people to renew Seattle.

Prayer is one of the clearest ways we can demonstrate our dependance on Christ and acknowledge His sovereignty over all things. Because I believe the Gospel, I know the visible engine of Anchor must be prayer.

Emmaus Road

God has called some incredible men to plant churches in the Puget Sound region.  One of those dudes is Rich McCaskill at Emmaus Road, an Acts 29 church in Newcastle, WA (you can check out Rich’s blog here).  Rich has been a huge help to me personally and Emmaus Road is behind Anchor with prayer and support.  They have a clear vision to see churches that love Jesus started and to be a blessing to new church plants in the Pacific Northwest.

It was my great pleasure to preach at Emmaus Road last Sunday.  My family and I felt a warm welcome as we gathered with that community.  I left Sunday encouraged by this church that is about Jesus and His gospel.

To listen to my sermon on Mark 5 click here.

The Beginning

What happens when people are willing to trade the static of the day to day for a relationship with God? What does it look like when a community forms around the good news of Jesus and participates in His transforming work in the city?  These are the kinds of questions we are trying to answer as Anchor.  Right now a handful of people are coming together because we believe Jesus is calling us to become a new gospel community.  Anchor Church is forming around the vision of a life of redemption in Jesus, led by His Spirit in Seattle.

While our website is being constructed, this blog will serve as a means to talk about what Jesus is doing in our community and the direction He is taking us.  If you have any questions about Anchor, please contact anchorseattle@gmail.com.