Tonight was CpR’s first ‘outreach’ of the school year - Lip Sync night. I put the word outreach in quotes because I think our definition of outreach is changing - in a good way.
It’s always a blast to see how creative and talented the students are, in terms of choosing the music, putting together […]
I picked up this book on sale over the weekend and had skimmed it a few months ago. It was a good deal so I grabbed it. Tonight I read chapters 1 and 2. And it grabbed me. Look for more notes soon, but take a good read at some of […]
Had a fun time meeting with JWinter this evening, who is a recent UofMD graduate and going to Melbourne, Australia for a one year term, leaving in November, working with a college ministry with Campus Crusade. She is in the midst of raising support and is part of our Fusion community at GCC. […]
Some of you readers that read from an RSS feed might have noticed a strange post last night in the middle of the night. Think Chinese characters with lots of vibrant, neon, disco colors. No, that wasn’t anything about students, mobilizing or mission. It was better - it was spam.
Up until yesterday, […]
In the summer of 1991, right after I graduated from college and right before going to grad school that fall, I took a summer camp counselor job at Camp Shenandoah Springs in Madison, VA. It was kind of on a whim, I had spent a weekend there on a retreat and fell in love […]
- with a college student trying to find a missions experience this coming summer- with the director of a parachurch youth min in our area about Bulgaria and Cameroon- lunch with one of our GCC Turkey team who is now aligning his future with his values and personality- going to listen to a college grad […]
Well we have almost closed the summer finances and I now have a whopping $0 in our SPACE fund. It’s definitely a weird sensation. Some of you readers will remember that last December, I was asked to put a plan together to spend quite a bit of extra I had in the fund, […]
My post entitled Leader Share [and the post with my answers] was a small attempt to frame my mind for some structured leadership development that was coming up. I’m humbled and very excited to be a part of a pilot leadership development program at GCC. The general structure of the program is that […]
** A quote from Shane Claiborne’s The Irresistible Revolution:
Sometimes people ask me if I am scared, living in the inner city. I usually reply, “I’m more scared of the suburbs.” The Scriptures say that we should not fear those things that can destroy the body, but we are to fear that which can destroy the […]
Here are my answers from my Leader Share questions from a number of days ago. Not too late if you want to add your answers.
1 - Name a leader you look up [can be someone you know personally or not] to and the character attribute you most admire about them. [You don’t have to […]
For the text and more details see the Post titled Packing List Extras.
From September 24-30, 500 young Christian leaders will will descend on Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from all parts of the globe for the Lausanne Younger Leaders Gathering(YLG-06). These hand-picked leaders represent the next generation of those who will be responsible for leading churches and missions towards completing the Great Commission. Keep up to date […]
The book K is reading - found in her desk. I’m such a proud father!
Well after Cameroon, I learned some more about what to bring.
1. A headlamp - better than a flashlight.
2. A high quality water bottle. Even though you will probably be drinking bottled water, this will still help. And sometimes you may be getting water from filters, like in someone’s home. […]
** Globally, overweight people now outnumber the undernourished. There are one billion overweight adults and 800 million undernourished. Link via BoingBoing.
** AfriGadget blog - a blog about solving everyday problems with African ingenuity. Also via BoingBoing.
** Church Planter reading list. Good list of books and I think not limited to just […]
This year’s SPACEintern gathered a few of her friends a few weekends ago and went into downtown DC to hang out in the city, make a few waves and impact a few people. Her team went to the city with no set agenda - rather it was more of an exploratory outing. Sounds […]
Just a few more from A Whole New Mind about abundance…
- During much of the twentieth century, the aspiration of most middle-class Americans was to own a home and a car. Now more than two out of three Americans own the homes in which they live. In fact, some 13% of homes purchased […]
Sorry it’s taken a little while but I’ve finally uploaded some media related to our summer mission teams. Both the video and audio here are from the Mission team reports held at GCC on Sunday, August 20.
Video - developed by the GCC video team.Audio - from the 1st service. Cameroon starts at about […]
Culture and CitiesFact 1 - What does the Bible mean when it says “Nations”http://www.thetravelingteam.org/2000/world/8_print.txt
Fact 2 - Cities - A Strategic Mission FieldLink
Fact 3 - County Census - 2005 - Foreign Born PopulationHoward County Census - 2005 - Foreign Born Populationhttp://tinyurl.com/fmf6y
After reading these three factoids, we had to go around our mall with a magic marker […]
I’ve been working through “A Whole New Mind” by Daniel Pink and it has been a fascinating read. It is a book that deals with our culture in light of the global landscape, gaps in our primal human instincts due to changes in culture, technology and economics, and the skills you and I and […]
Thought up these questions the other night for something sort of related to SPACE - feel free to share your answers…
1 - Name a leader you look up [can be someone you know personally or not] to and the character attribute you most admire about them. [You don’t have to name them here if […]
D and I have had lots of ideas floating around our heads this weekend about SPACE for this year. It’s been both surprising and interesting to me. By the end of the summer, I was pretty toasted and unrealistically wondering what viability SPACE really had left in it. In other words, it […]
Well, one month ago, August the 4th, I was in Cameroon. On that day, we toured a local trade school, had lunch in town and attended the first high school small groups the Navigators ever had in Yaounde. [See more from the Cameroon Metapost.] Yesterday, I emptied my Cameroonian bag of the […]
Rendezvous is the name of our new SPACE gathering - one of the ideas that we are going to experiment with this year. This gathering will focus on investing in students that have been a part of our summer teams and/or are students interested in global cultures, cross cultural mission and the future of […]
I spent over 2 hours this morning doing some evaluation about our summer trips with a select few people. This morning, the elder at GCC in charge of missions, his wife who is the head of the Missions Task Force, a lady who is the coordinator for adult short term trips and myself had […]
Well happy readers, sorry its been so sparse here. We’ve had our first week of school, I thought I should spend a little more time on my career and getting up in the middle of the night with the puppy has been - er - interesting. Anyway, the school year has started and […]
