I'm back, what an incredible time I had Idaho, plenty to process and plenty to learn from. I met a few folks with whom I will remain in contact to encourage and journey together.

I come away from the gathering with this: I know I am where I am supposed to be. I know that there are others journeying and struggling along the same lines. I know that my work is helping those who are a part of Breakpoint. This makes me ecstatic. So now I enter the re-interview process with calmness and no fear. Jehovah Jireh.

For those of you who don't know, I am currently set to finish a part time temporary position for Breakpoint at the end of February. Calvary CRC the mother church has decided to re-interview me next week for the position, I do not know any more what they are thinking for this position.

So will I have a job after February? yes, my job will be to continue out what God has laid upon my heart as a calling. We will continue to do unstructured missional community while seeking Gods will out for our lives together... but maybe I should post that on their website. www.breakpointweb.com

It was great meeting Jon Wallis Yeah John, we will be friends for life, I just hope you continue to challenge me as we live life. Becky and I are gonna plan a time soon to visit Cincinnati so we can see John and his kids, and maybe connect with Kevin and Chris.

For now I should go, got to run some errands and make it to the office today. Cooking dinner for the girls house and my Mom, any suggestions? Let me know!

And now as our meeting of Allelon closes tonight I want to report that many good thigns were said here, many good people met. Connections for the future have been made and God is working in the people represented here.

Thank you for your support.

I'm in Idaho, made it safely, and I have a ton of info... Not too much computer time, looking forward to meeting Jason Evans tonight. Look for more updates soon. Oh yeah and Im sweating outside cause its over 40 degrees, take that you back in MI where its lke 2 degrees!

Ok
getting ready to leave tomorrow for Idaho, and I realize how much we have setup systems and structures to run even when we are not present. I do enjoy this and know that this takes away from me being all self focused, but still, is this not dangerous, as we look at the AI described in the Matrix that over ran mankind because it became smarter, can man become stupid in comparison to the systems he has setup?

All in all alot can be accomplished in a day, you can have breakfast with this perons, meet with the doctor make four phoen calls on your way to the airport, fly to a different side of the country, have lunch with a friend, and work the afternoon in the office, and go to a show in the evening catch a plane before midnight and be back into your bed.

but is this worth it?

Is there not some semblance of peace that we need to maintain in our lives?

Harmony, Harmony, Lord give us Harmony in our lives.

I'll hopefully update this from Idaho otherwise I will be back on Monday to comment on the whole trip!

btw look forward to www.paulkortman.com becomeing active again!

Life is moving at a steady pace right now, just to bring you all up to speed on where I am in life, I have a girlfriend named Rebekah Edighoffer (Becky) I am working for Calvary CRC in Wyoming Michigan part time planting a new church called Breakpoint. We have been meeting for over two years now and have gone through a lot of things together, but God has been blessing and we are seeking His will for our lives together as a community.

Other than that I am living with Mom, making some wise decisions financially. I drive an '87 Red Ford Ranger, its a great truck that doesn't handle too well in the snow, I learned my lesson with insurance today. Anytime there is any claim made with your name on it they will most likly find out and your rates will increase. So don;t let you insurance know about anything!

So yeah I leave in two days for Idaho and I am excited to meet some people shooting the same direction as Breakpoint seems to be going. I am continuing on a discussion I have with Brian Wolthuis who is also apart of the conversation. Today I received an email response from him encouraging me about what God is doing in us as leaders, developing a decentralized community based leadership. I think I will spill this further on spilled.blogspot.com

So it's late Saturday night, well its Sunday Morning, I am about to go to bed but I just wanted to share how excited I am to get this Blog thing all setup and I think there are some real potentials for it!

I am about to so Snowboarding tomorrow after Ada Bible, and I am looking forward to that!

Becky is spending the night up and Christy and Jay's place, they are safly back from Iowa, but she is tired so tomorrow after she teaches the kids during evening service She's gonna go home and crash, and rightly so. It'll be good to be connected with her again. Its strange how only a few days apart can seem like so much changes during that time.

And for me, well Monday proves to be a busty day with lunch and coffee time booked, as well as dinner and the Jam session afterwards! Tuesday is 20 somethings Wednesday is staff meeting, spending time with my girlfriend and then Taking off early for Idaho Thursday morning.

I am looking forward to meeting the people I will meet through Allelon. As well as the lessons I will learn and will take abck to Breakpoint and to my life.

Then next month I leave for San Diego to go to the Emergent Convention. Lots of networking, lots of learning, lots to learn from God.

I am still wondering how God is pointing for the trip for next year. Praying daily.

Well My personal blog is up! We'll see what happens here.