If you are reading this, consider yourself invited. Just email or comment if you plan on coming - Sunday evening, June 4th…
This time, we will do a rotating kind of style - so show up anytime between 7.30 and 9.30 and we will:- have some light refreshments- meet some leaders from other teams- get […]
Here are some recap postings from people that were involved in Origins last week. Enjoy.
Adults learn in crisis…think about it. Part of Spiritual Leadership is creating a crisis for those we lead.
The Western Church has become at best an employment agency for those who like to study and at worst a […]
on the way home from the beach in Easton, MD. The white sign says, “Urban Area Stay Alert”
Comparative population densities:Easton, MD - 439/km^2Baltimore - 3111/km^2NYC - 10,194/km^2
Since when did Easton, MD become an urban area?
We had a great time seeing the ponies - very fun. K especially. And she supposedly gets extra credit for going.
In the meantime, here are some links you might find interesting:
- A new definition of de-churched? Via Jordon
- Reform and Resurge Conference podcasts [the conference that Mark Driscoll’s church just held]
- What […]
Quick weekend recap - - CpR Senior Night last night. Bittersweet. - Helping JBourq move this morning.- Pool and a kid birthday party this aft/eve.- Taking the girls to the beach to see some ponies tommorrow thru Monday.
For those of you in the US, enjoy Memorial Day and thank someone that fought for […]
back row - Austin, Chris, Tony, Leslie, Greg, NicoleElly, Tricia, Ben, Lauren, Ariell, Emilie
[This post is specifically for interaction between the Cameroon team leaders. Although other readers - please please feel free to add your ideas too.]
What are some personal habits or tools you use to soak in Scripture in order to get ready to teach it to others? How can we translate some of these personal […]
In one of my previous posts, I mentioned a little bit about my Cameroon leaders working me out of a job. I was mostly being facetious. Mostly.
I’ve got high hopes for this leader team, and not just for this summer, like all of our leader teams, and for that matter, all of our […]
I believe in the nobility of entertaining people, and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours out of their busy lives. I don’t want anyone to feel they wasted any of their time or money to see one of our films or ride one of our […]
My friend MM called me from Origins in LA earlier. He, of course, is having a fantastic time. “It was everything you said it was and more.” Oh man. Next year, maybe, hopefully, yes…
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Technorati tags:: Origins, Mosaic
Leadership Network was kind enough to send me a copy of Mark Driscoll’s book Confessions of a Reformission Rev in exchange for a blog review after I volunteered on Mark’s blog. So here it goes.
Mark Driscoll has written a very fun book to read chronicling his adventures as the pastor of Mars […]
If you are at all associated with our Cam team, I hope you don’t get a deluge of support letters. Or actually, I hope that you do. It is a team that is going to do some amazing things - both in Cameroon and earlier and later. Chris Austin Elly Tricia Ben […]
One of our Seniors that went to NYC with us last weekend wrote me to ask if we could sit down and talk a bit. The gist is that she feels led to go back to NYC in the fall and do some ministry, nothing like what most graduating seniors decide to do around […]
We had a fun time with the Leaders Prayer last night. I wish more could have come, but it was late notice and a pretty busy weekend for a lot of people [bach party for a dteam leader, soccer games, grad parties, etc.]
One of the things we missed last year was artwork […]
Hollywood style, that is. Great movie, very fun.
Technorati tags:: DaVinci+Code, Over+The+Hedge
The Cam team met tonight at my house. It was our second team meeting with most of the team members there. Some good stuff.
For those of you that might be interested in our team prep material, here are our discussion points from tonight:
#1Rate the following statements on a ‘difficulty of coping’ scale. […]
Besides singing along and laughing my head off, I had to try to explain some of this to one of my kids. “You listened to that stuff?”Via YSMarko
Technorati tags:: 80s
In NYC last weekend, one of the Seniors saw an ad about how many people die of AIDS everyday and commented how crazy that seemed. No doubt the number, at 8000 per day, is staggering.
I found this Unfinished Task Population Ticker a few weeks ago, from the IMB. Even more staggering.
From EmGberg’s away message…
Emilie, the SPACEintern, is officially done with her internship. The last major work effort was the Senior Mission weekend, which was her dream followed by her execution. It was a great weekend and all of her hard work was worth it. We talked about how we could measure success before the weekend […]
I got an interesting email over the weekend while I was in NYC with our Seniors. The point person for our DC team made a decision that her and her husband needed to speed up their cross country move and therefore could not be a part of the DC trip and team anymore. […]
The church must be conceived in heaven before it is born on earth. It must first be a glimmer in our Father’s eye. - Neil Cole
If you are reading this and if you live in MD [or not] and you want to come to my house on Sunday night and hang out and pray with […]
I signed up with Leadership Network to post a review of these two books after I have read them and just got them in the mail in the past few days. They are both fun reads. Fun.
We had a fabulous weekend in NYC with some of our graduation Seniors. Big thanks to Jeremy Del Rio for hosting and connecting us with a few local, indigenous ministries in the East Village for us to serve and bless others.
The overall goal was to take our graduating Seniors away for the […]
To all you mothers - hope today has been great. It’s been a little hectic around here - as some of you might have read on D’s blog - but in the end, I think it turned out okay. Suffice to say, the Senior weekend was a big success [more on that later,] […]
Technorati tags:: student+missions, Seniors
We made it to nyc. Kids doing a culture observation in area near nyu. Jeremy (see sidebar) is hosting us. More later
If you would, say a quick prayer for these Seniors that are going with us on the Senior Mission weekend this coming Thurs - Sat.
Grace Alyssa Ben Katie Kyle Chris Michelle
Pray that their hearts would be changed, that they would see the reality of the world today, that they would live lives that tell a […]
OK, one more post about support letters for right now. I was thinking that it would be kind of interesting to see what kind of response I have personally gotten over the years regarding support letters. So I dug through some old files. And here’s what I got:
The numbers below correlate to […]
I’ve been reading Seth Barnes’ blog quite a bit lately, looking at older posts and stuff and recently added him to my blogroll on the right side there. Seth is the founder and director of Adventures In Mission, one of the best short-term student mission agencies around. Adventures seem to not only be […]
Interesting night tonight. D and I went to a DaVinci Code thing at Grace - the whole idea was to talk about the book/movie and give people some more information about some of the story as well as some ideas for how to talk to people interested in it. It was some great […]
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” - Voltaire
Whew - sometimes parents are really intimidating. I just got off the phone with one such parent and they just about raked me over the coals about “not enough details” with regard to the Senior weekend we have coming up. I didn’t […]
(13:51:23) LB: she asked me why i couldn’t just be normal and go the mall(13:51:57) LB: i was like, i’ll take that as a compliment mom
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(00:04:27) me: hey ben - email me your letter for africa dude(00:04:27) Ben **AUTO-REPLY** : dear tony:
i know that it is 5/6. and yes i know my support letter […]
[This is very, very rough…]
SPACE Mission Advance is a weekend fully devoted to prepare you for your summer mission experience. You will find yourselves tossed into a grand epic sometime this summer. And this weekend will help give you the heart and soul to weather the mission, fighting against the forces of good […]
A Mom on MySpace:
After consulting with a circle of friends and relatives, I relented. I would let Taylor have a MySpace site, but only if she agreed to follow some rules.
The first was that her site would have to be set to “private.” That meant that only those she had approved as “friends” could see […]
1. Your hands and house may get messy2. You may have to welcome in messy people: physically and emotionally3. You may have to give up some comforts to help get things done4. You will have to give up your privacy some: big churches provide good hiding places, small churches provide intimacy and dependence upon one […]
[This post is specifically for interaction between the Cameroon team leaders. Although other readers - please please feel free to add your ideas too.]
Your leader application asked you to describe the most riskiest, yet not necessarily successful endeavor you have attempted. Envision a situation or scenario in the context of our upcoming trip […]
My Cameroon team is in the midst of writing their letters. There is at least one other SPACE team writing them right now, two other teams will be starting [I hope!] very soon. Here are a few things off the top of my head about this process:
#1 - Everyone that gets your letter […]
Dear ,
We are having an absolute exhilarating time helping out in a student/missions capacity at Grace Community Church in Columbia. As the coordinator of student missions in our ministry component called SPACE [Students Prepared to Act for Christ’s Empire], this summer we are endeavoring to send out 5 different summer mission teams. In […]
From an IM conversation:
(14:27:57) EmGberg: i’ll WRITE the post for you(14:28:11) EmGberg: just got back from a great missions weekend.,(14:28:29) EmGberg: we took 6 kids to chicago, to visit space graduate EmGberg, whos attending wheaton college(14:28:35) EmGberg: our team, plus Em, went into the city(14:28:49) EmGberg: and met with homeless people. . . .[insert missions […]
Tonight I went to a reception held for all the mentorships at one of the local high schools, where Emilie our SPACEintern goes. All the interns had presentation boards about their mentorship and a lot of the mentors were there as well. There was a little speech and then mentors that were there […]
Well, 50% of the Shengs are on antibiotics. I guess that is progress. The other 50%, they are just trying to stay hydrated. If you come near us, wash your hands really good.
