Ken

As I mentioned earlier, a reporter from the San Diego Reader came last Sunday to profile LifePoint for the "Sheeps and Goats" column. Well ... here it is. It's fair and balanced and unafraid!"NEXT Church," read the painted sign running along one wall of the converted industrial space: poured concrete floors, concrete-block walls painted in muted red and yellow, a canopied stage in one corner, and a '60s-era rumpus room set up in another, complete with fish tank, console TV, and purple-felt pool table. A coffee bar offered refreshments; jazzed-up religious art offered edification. A pair of gray prayer pillars, covered in writing, flanked the entrance: "Thank you Lord for a new life." "I pray for the families who have fathers, brothers, sons in the war with Iraq." "Thanks for my mom, my family, my good-lookingness, my education, for heaven, for God." Pictures of church members were wired into a…

Our next LifePoint Cafe is this Sunday night featuring Tom Brosseau and Will Edwards. We've hosted Will twice before but this is our first time to have Tom. Here's a snippet from Will's email newsletter:"I haven't seen Tom in almost two years because he's been touring up hill and down dale. But, Tom is one of the finest acoustic artists I've ever seen. "If you're in the area, stop by! Show starts at 7 PM.

Back during our years in Covington, GA, one of my many joys was getting to know local musicians and artists. Much like here in San Diego, I developed a musical circuit and tried my best to work it into my schedule.This included the Newborn Opry, a great old schoolhouse that hosted live bluegrass on Saturdays. It was a one-room schoolhouse that had a stage at the front and seating out on the floors. Most of the musicians were locals and the crowd was, well, elderly.Shortly after my dad retired from Caterpillar, he and mom bought an RV and hit the bluegrass circuit on weekends. Mom would carry along this old Panasonic cassette recorder and tape all the groups and "live jams." As I was in college and later in San Diego, I never had a chance to go bluegrassing with them. But I would hear the stories over the phone…

There's a new awards show in town and it's called San Diego H.A.T. awards. It stands for Honoring Acoustic Talent. Cast your vote at the San Diego H.A.T. awards website.

The San Diego Reader has a weekly column called "Sheeps and Goats." LifePoint was featured back in the spring of 2005, before we held our first public worship service. The reporter came to our service yesterday and we will be featured again this Thursday.Here's the link to our first column.