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My third post in a series based on my specific StrengthsFinder strengths.
Futuristic
“Wouldn’t it be great if . . .” You are the kind of person who loves to peer over the horizon. The future fascinates you. As if it were projected on the wall, you see in detail what the future might hold, and this […]

The second in a series of posts based upon my specific StrengthsFinder strengths.
WooWoo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the challenge of meeting new people and getting them to like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are drawn to them. You want to learn their […]

I’ve followed the International Mentoring Network for a while now. It “is a custom-made mentoring process and peer network. The Mentoring Process is designed to both offer a full-bodied foretaste of mission and ministry in the 21st century and to create ongoing conversation and partnership in mission and ministry,” the brainchild of Alex McManus. […]

I’m going to start a series of posts [I think] that outline my specific StrengthsFinder strengths with some thoughts about them. Feel free to chime in if you know me.
Interestingly enough, I think this kind of stuff would be really helpful at work and I’ve thought a little bit about using it with my […]

Friday night at the Warehouse.Here is an image of the front and back of the cards that were printed up.
[Also, I’m testing with this post to see if an image uploaded on Facebook has a permalink…]

** George Verwer is now blogging. The tag line is “World Missions Advocate.” That’s pretty dang cool.
** Albert Einstein quotes for missions via Guy Muse
** Pre-release discount on The Forgotten Ways by Alan Hirsch. See the form here.

One snippet from Infuze Magazine’s interview with Erwin McManus.
Erwin: We have very unashamedly gone after what’s called the innovators and early adopters on the adoctored categorization. Are you familiar with that grid?
Infuze: No.
Erwin: There’s a sociological grid - not created by Christians, just a part of normal sociology - that says that […]

Right click the link to download the State of the Gospel PPT (11MB) presented at YLG06 from the Operation World website. A good summary for the world Christian in ya.

Speaking of Diwali, we had a SPACE rendezvous planned for tonight. Originally it was going to a Brazilian restaurant, but earlier this afternoon I remembered a friend of mine at work inviting me to a big Diwali party he was going to. So rather last minute, we changed plans for our SPACE gathering […]

And no I’m not talking about the Christmas thing they do at Merriwether Post - for those of you that live in Howard County…
Similar to ‘redemptive analogy‘, another missions term is ‘dynamic equivalence.’ Richard Lewis has a good post about the Indian festival Diwali [many Indians have difficulty with the letter “w” so it […]

Ok so most of you know the deal around here - we plan mission experiences mostly in light of strategic connections we have from the mother church already. Meaning that for student teams, our travel preferences take a back seat and we give a really strong preference to a connection with someone GCC has […]

Here are some e-newsletters I subscribe to. I thought maybe some of you readers might also be interested in some of them:
1. Caleb Project [Initiative 360] Missions Catalyst. New name nowGood quick source of both news briefs, mobilization resources and thought provoking ideas.http://www.missionscatalyst.org/
2. Brigada TodayAlso a good source of the same […]

** Mark writes about the concept of sustainability
…told me about a church in Germany that applies the biblical concepts of sabbath and jubilee. Every 7th year they have a sabbatical, during which the community refrains from starting new projects. In the 50th year or their existence they shut down the whole church, sell everthing […]

As we’ve seen in each of these roles, the critical skill is not balance, but its inverse, intentional imbalance. The great manager bets that he will prevail by magnifying, emphasizing and then capitalizing on each employee’s uniqueness. The great leader comes to a conclusion about his core customer, his organization’s strength, its core […]

Some of you might be wondering what areas and ministries we have personally invested in. So here is an inside peek at our personal connections, areas of interest, and investments we make as a family.
* Two families in two different locations in Asia
* Two families that hosted SPACE teamsin Brasil and Cameroon. These […]

So I’ve been running the Blogger Beta for a little while now and everything seems pretty stable. Here are a few things that might be important to know for people planning on upgrading soon:
- I kept my existing template, since there was a lot of custom stuff I put into it from before. […]

The dogs are starting to get along better.

Howard County, MD :: 269,457
Baltimore :: 635,815Washington, DC :: 550,521Londrina Brazil :: 476,300Paris France :: 2,150,000Yaounde Cameroon :: 1,430,000New York City :: 8,085,742Sao Paulo :: 10,333,200

A post from Tom Peters:
Yunus is the father of microlending, one of the most potent tools of ours or any other times. Microlending was long dismissed by the powers that be (the World Bank among them) as being a peanuts idea. Big Loans for Big Projects was the ticket. Yup, big loans for big projects […]

Alright, I’ve spent the better part of two hours trying to get html tables to work. Two hours would be worth it though for this information.
It’s the …… 2006 State of Christianity…. You all that have been around SPACE for a while know that I love this thing. It is such a wealth […]

Some very good upcoming opportunities - two of them local - for training in student ministry, leadership and missions .
ACMC Mid Atlantic ConferenceNov 3-4Bay Area Community Church, near Annapolis, MDLink to pdf scheduleThe Advancing Churches Mission Commitment Mid Atlantic conference will be held near Annapolis MD. This is one of the best regional conferences […]

I went to our Missions Task Force meeting tonight. That’s that thing that I’m supposed to be a part of but don’t really go - unless I need some kind of approval. Tsk tsk tsk. Anyway, they changed the nights of the meetings which works a bit better for me and tonight […]

** You’ve heard of cell church, house church, skate church, - how about a street church? Guy Muse writes about it here.
When we arrived at 5:30 they were just setting up plastic chairs on the sidewalk out in front of their house. Cars, buses and people were rushing by. The noise level was incredibly […]

Pictobrowser - a new Flickr tool for an in-post picture browser of any of your photosets in Flickr. This is my Cameroon 2006 photoset. [RSS readers - the actual post has a flash based viewer that is showing all the pictures in that photo set.]

The Washington Post has an interesting article in today’s [Sunday the 8th] Magazine section talking about the US Army’s recent efforts to treat malaria.
Malaria:
- claims more than 1 million lives globally each year, 90 percent of them in sub-Saharan Africa, the vast majority children. Young survivors are frequently left with cognitive damage that […]

In the spirit of last year’s State of the 03 post and implementing this idea of a core score….
There are two core scores of SPACE - how we measure how well we are doing. First, let’s score how many students after graduation serve in an intentional ministry. Also related, lets count how much […]

You might see some funny stuff on here as I’m messing around with the blogger beta. In fact, just a few minutes ago, I thought I dumped the whole thing down the drain. HA.

“A new report by comScore puts more than half of MySpace users at over 35.
Those teenagers are so out of there.” via The Business2.0 blog

Chapter 4 – The One Thing You Need to Know: Great Leading
** The difference between great managers and great leaders:
Great managers discover what is unique about each person and capitalize on this uniqueness. Great managers serve as intermediaries between the individual and the company, and like all intermediaries, they perform their role well […]

Marko posted yesterday about what youth ministry might look like in 50 years, along with this link to an article from CT. Interesting question that I have been pondering for a little while. I thought I would throw my opinion out there - feel free to comment. Also, I haven’t read the […]

From the article entitled “How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World? One. And You’re Looking At It.“The impact of a compact fluorescent lightbulb:
What that means is that if every one of 110 million American households bought just one ice-cream-cone bulb, took it home, and screwed it in the place of an ordinary […]

** Steve Addision writes about Ireland:
In 2003 there were nine ordinations for the whole of Ireland, eight in 2004 and eight in 2005. In 2005, for the first time in its history, the Archdiocese of Dublin, with of over 1 million people, didn’t have a single candidate for ordination, and in the whole Archdiocese there […]

Mark Batterson, lead pastor at National Community Church - the church that meets in Union Station in DC, as well as two other locations - has a new book coming out today entitled In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day. Sounds like it’s going to be a good one.
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