Kinetic update

Two weeks ago I wrote about Kinetic Church in Charlotte, NC. Someone had just stolen their church trailers and almost all their gear, and I encouraged you to give online to help this young church plant recover from the financial blow.

Kinetic is still accepting donations (here's the website), but instead of looking for someone to blame the church is looking for someone to forgive. Yesterday five billboards with five different messages to the thief went up around Charlotte, and today the church went live with a new home page featuring this video message from lead pastor Dave Milam.

In the video, Dave forgives the thieves, invites them to visit the church, then issues another pretty cool invitation: return to the place they dumped Kinetic's Bibles and communion supplies, find a box covered in duct tape, and use the disposable cell phone inside to contact him. 

Pragmatically, I hope the inevitable publicity helps Kinetic raise a lot more money for their trailer recovery fund. But more than that, I hope the thieves see a billboard, visit the website, and take Dave up on his offer--because you know he'll use that conversation for God. "I mean, that's why we bought the stuff to begin with," he says in the video. "So that people could turn their life around and know this guy named Jesus."