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dave & andy

richard jordan leading

wards

a healthy strawberry plant in the Jentes garden June 3, 2005

another strawberry plant sending out “runners” June 3, 2005

See a strawberry plant doesn’t reproduce through the actual strawberries it produces. It starts more plants by sending out “runners” (those string like growths going to the right on the picture).

bearing some fruit on July 4

a strawberry on July 4

Here is the strawberry plant that had 2 little runners on June 3. On July 4th here is that same plant. If you look closely there are 5 runners off this plant now. The two original ones are now …the one which has a new plant (fallen over) to the lower left of the picture & to the lower right (this runner continues off the picture).

Here is that original runner…that now has started 3 new plants…in one month

a strawberry patch from here

This is the vision for urban Columbus…that there would be a local expression of the church for every 500 people here…

strawberry plants (like the house churches of thequest) sending out runners into new neighborhoods and pockets of people that would send out more runners that would create a strawberry patch blanketing urban Columbus.

This past Sunday was a beautiful event as our mother church, the East Side Grace Brethren Church commissioned John and Kate Ward to be on mission with thequest. It was an important moment of transferring spiritual blessing and authority. Hope you enjoy some of the pics below as an attempt to reflect on this exciting event.

Commissioning Prayer

John, Joey and Cheri sharing in song

panoramic prayer and sending of the saints

the Wards interview with Pastor Chip