Day 2 went (or at least ended) well enough that I feel like I can let the cat out of the bag and start making these posts public.
On the technical front: I was up late, but I made a lot of progress learning Xcode, the development environment Apple provides for writing iOS apps. What’s so cool is how easy Xcode makes it to get prototypes up and running. Maybe tonight I’ll have some screenshots to share.
On the missional front: I had a great conversation with members of the community here. Ben Campbell, the pastoral director, reminded me that one of the themes of Richmond Hill‘s proclamation is that the church as we so often know it has a real spiritual problem regarding locality. We talk a lot of general, eternal, universal truth but not nearly enough particular, immediate, and local truth (e.g., “People know more about Afghanistan than they know about the housing project down the street”). So we had some cool ideas about how prayer and spirituality apps can take on local scope (for you computer programmers: pun intended).
Loving what I’m doing here, and grateful for the hospitality and mission of this place.
