I have been working on two new websites/projects… the first concerns my catering business, the second a community think-tank about church.
For years, catering has served well as a tent-making enterprise when ministry did not pay (which was often in the early years!) Now, as a full-time chef, I still pick up some catering gigs here and there. I am in the process of discerning what I am supposed to be doing work-wise after I graduate culinary school (next week!) I will be staying at the restaurant I am with for a while, but trying to discern whether that is a place to stay and build a career or whether I might pursue catering full time. In any regard, I have set-up a draft website for Ben David Catering, LLC. You can check it out and let me know your thoughts… and let me know if you have any catering/private chef needs.
LINK: www.bendavidcatering.com
Full confession: I am a lover of the Bride of Christ, the Church! Despite everything, I have not given up on church and believe that Christ in the church is the hope of the world! But that doesn’t mean that church-as-we-know-it is necessarily working at its full redemptive potential… or not reaching certain groups, sub-groups and populations. For the last few months or so I have been having increasingly interesting conversations with different people (usually over coffee or good red wine) about the idea of a “the church as a greenhouse for growing fully devoted followers of Jesus.”
As I have talked with different folks, it seemed that it would be good to connect people together and perhaps start a more formal and intentional discussion on this topic via a community blog. So that is what we are starting. I literally put the site up a few days ago and we are still looking for contributors and trying to figure out how it will work… but you can check it out and let me know your thoughts. Plus, if you would be interested in being a contributor to the new blog, let me know.
BEN DUBOW 
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