(Updated 7/21/2010 with new PDF which includes recommendation letters)

Hello there!  Since I became a Christian in November 2007, God has had us on a rollercoaster ride!  Read our “About” section to catch up on some of those amazing stories!

This last May I finished my third year of ministry training at the Leadership Development Institute (LDI) at Hope Community Church.  Through that time I have grown in my passion to see Christians live out their faith in service to others and to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ into this lost and broken world.  In June, we took a call to be Urban Missionaries in the Twin Cities with the North Central District of the EFCA under the leadership of Tom Mouw.  We’ll be helping launch a wholistic ministry called Caring Friends, which focuses on empowering people to reach the emotional, social, mental, physical, and spiritual needs of those in their community and their relational spheres.  We believe this will start a movement that will bring hope to the hopeless, healing to the broken, and new life to those dead in sin.  We see Caring Friends as being a catalyst for transformed lives and neighborhoods, for launching other ministries, for effective evangelism and discipleship, and for urban, multi-cultural church-planting.  We do this all for the glory of Jesus’ name!

Please read our letter for more information and to learn how you can help support us financially and in prayer!

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This last month was quite a month!  Sorry this update is about a month late.  I’ll have another one out later this week.

Our easter outreach and I guess I'm a Pastor now or something. Click to open (PDF).

It has been an exciting couple of months.  It appears God is moving us along the plan we’ve been striving toward, which is an urban, community-transforming church-plant in Minneapolis.  More info about that in our March update letter!

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March 2010 Update Letter

February 2010 Update Letter

A short little update for January.  I wrote a little piece about fear, which is something God has confronted me on recently.  Enjoy!

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Here’s our December update letter.  We sent this one out far and wide, so most people should have gotten a paper copy.  This one has some end-of-year summary of what is going on in our lives.  Enjoy!

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Here is our update letter for November, with some breaking news items that you might be interested it!

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As you might have guessed from our total lack of posts, September hit us like a ton of bricks.  On top of starting LDI and ramping up ministry, we had a major bug infestation and a few bouts of sickness.  But God is good and He got us through it all (see the October letter).

September was a HUGE month for us raising support!  It was our biggest yet.  Thank you all who helped us out!  For anyone else interesting in supporting us please contact us as soon as possible!

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September Update Letter - Info on what we'll be doing this year

October 2009 Updates - Updates on Luke plus how God has gotten us through some difficulties

Here’s our July update letter, with info from the church planting assessment.

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Whoa there!  I’ve seriously been slacking behind on getting our updates to our website.  The last few months have been pretty crazy.  We are eager for some time this summer to get our lives in order a bit!

A big thing in April was going to the Exponential Church Planting conference.  That has really inspired us to continue on the path of planting a church!

Check out our May Update letter (click picture to open PDF)

May 2009 Update Newsletter

We also have some great stories in our March 2009 and April 2009 newsletters.

Here’s our February update letter.  We’ve written an update about our financial situation, which is an encouraging story

In our effort to conserve money and paper, many of you will no longer be receiving paper letters.  Please view them online!  Or if you’d like to receive paper copies again, sign up for our mailing list:  http://paulandkaelin.com/lists/

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