Somehow I stumbled across an article a local paper published after interviewing me about an African mission trip. Thought I'd share it and also give myself a link to the article to preserve the link. The interview was done after my first Africa visit, in 2005. The link is below. Enterprise Journal: Africa Mission Trip Posted via email from RobWestbrook.com

Take a look at the video below. Think this should be a new church approach to the community around us?

The Pointe is the student ministry of our church, LifePointe. They had this crazy idea and decided to follow through with it. The results was awesome.They ordered some squeeze water bottles with their logo and website printed on them. They stuffed these bottles with various other things related to The Pointe and a Gospel of John. Friday night they all went to the local hangouts and gathering spots for the teens...

For the past several months I have been on a reading binge. I've had a least two books going continuously since the beginning of the year. And I've read a bunch of really good ones, all recently published and released. But last week I started on a classic I'd never read before: Shadow of the Almighty, by Elisabeth Elliot. I was blown away. Of course I'd heard the quote most attributed to Jim Elliot: He is no...

Last Sunday, for our Rooted sermon series, the topics were Baptism and Communion. Although I only used a few Bible verses, I want to make them available to you. Click on the link below and the page will open up. You can save the page and print it out, if you like. The file is in .pdf format.Rooted 6 Scriptures: Baptism and Communion (click to view)

With lots of young families and a holiday weekend, I was expecting our crowd to be slim. And we did have a lot of our regulars out but several new faces were there. All in all, we had a very good crowd. If we ever have everybody show up at one time, we're going to break records!Our band was on fire! The stage was full and they really brought it. The rain poured and the thunder rolled the entire service. The...

Last weekend, I had someone preach the Sunday message at LifePointe Church for me. Meanwhile I was off on an adventure, spending 72 hours with a bunch of other guys holed up away from civilization and technology. We were all participating in The Walk to Emmaus.My Walk to Emmaus was one of my most meaningful times with Jesus in many years, maybe ever. I can say that I truly had a weekend with my Lord. I was able...

Once again, God graced LifePointe and we had another wonderful time together. The place filled up and there were lots of new faces with us. After the service we had a young man become a new follower of Jesus Christ. There's nothing better than that!We had some special guests today. The praise band from First United Methodist Church, here in Amory, took on the role as our band this morning. Two of our guys, Jeff...