From a post from Alan Hirsch [yup, one of the Shaping of Things to Come guys] ::
100AD There are as little as 25,000 Christians310AD There are as many as 20,000,000 Christians
…But before the example of the Early Christian Movement can be dismissed as a freak of history, there is another perhaps even more astounding manifestation […]
Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter. - Mark Twain
The few [and I do mean few!] gray hairs on my head are okay. The speed at which my kids are growing up is also okay, although slightly less easy to accept. When my dad’s case […]
::: George Verwer has friends that: drive him all around the US in a motorhome, have shared about Jesus in every country in the world; and have had 99 grandchildren - via one wife. Link.
::: Marc posts about the current challenges in Europe, including:
- declining population- for every person in Europe that converts to […]
The second post in a series of posts based on the book The End of Poverty.
Chapter Two – The Spread of Economic Prosperity
- The average income per person in Western Europe in 1820 was around 90% of the average income of Africa today. Life expectancy in Western Europe and Japan as of 1800 was […]
“The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.” - William Cameron Townsend [founder of Wycliffe Bible Translators]
Amy M emailed me a few weeks ago and asked if I could get my hands on a Chinese Bible for a friend of her brothers. […]
A collection of some resources to help if you are a missions team leader.
** From this blog:Reference Questions for Potential Mission Orgs
Getting Teams Started
Preparing for Logistics [posted on youthministrytv.com]
The Economy of Teams
The Momentum of Teams
Two Roles of a Mission Project Leader
Leader Interview Questions
Feeding Teams
** Seth Barnes from Adventures.org and his list of free leadership […]
new template….
Let me know how it looks to you all….
Ok, so I told you yesterday that it was this blog’s 4th year anniversary and that I didn’t have any fun ideas. Well, this idea might totally flop or it might be a lot of fun…
Since you readers are so integral to this blog, I want to celebrate you as part of this 4 […]
Well folks today is my blog’s 4th anniversary. I was thinking of a good way to commemorate this grand occasion, but nothing comes to mind… Anyway, you readers are to be congratulated too - a good portion of this blog is to connect with you all - sharing what is in my head […]
We had a great time with the NavYouth this weekend where I was a speaker on their Fall Retreat. The retreat was held at Cape Henlopen, DE [same location, but different facility than last summer’s Mission Advance - and no rain and flooding of Biblical proportions like last time.] I personally had a […]
For those of you that might be interested - and just in case my memory goes down the tubes and I lose my printout - here are my speaking notes for this coming weekend. They might be a bit verbose for some of you…
======faith to follow
===== #1 Faith In Your Destiny =====OP: Psalm […]
I had beef noodle soup for lunch today. In other words, I was actually able make a decision…
Thanks to you readers and good friends for praying and thinking of us. My dad seemed to be doing pretty well today - he was sitting up when I visited him around lunch time. Our […]
The past few days have seemed like an alternate reality. Like D wrote, the simplest decisions have paralyzed me for the past few days.
You readers know that my dad had major surgery yesterday. The good news is that he seems to be doing fairly well. The surgery was to remove a […]
Mother Teresa was one of those people who sacrificed great privilege because she encountered such great need. People often ask me what Mother Teresa was like. Sometimes it’s like they wonder if she glowed in the dark or had a halo. She was short, wrinkled, and precious, maybe even a little ornery, […]
If you pray could you pray for my dad today - colon surgery today thanks!
** Even more on the Adoption curve here [related post] from an older post from Marc.
** From notes on The New Faces of Christianity: Believing the Bible in the Global South by Philip Jenkins
In Africa between 1900 and 2000, the number of Christians grew from 10 million to 360 million, from 10 percent of […]
AMsr in India with Adventures in Missions. She has been there since September and will be there until December. See SPACE’s Oct 2006 core score. More images of this team here.
I’ve been spending a good amount of time getting ready for this retreat I’m speaking at next weekend. The basics are four sessions centered around a common theme and the end of each talk will have time for small group interaction. The small group time at the end of each session is an […]
** “Duty is the pilot light of passion” from Bart Campolo.
** Flash Earth via Lon
** How to be interesting:
1. Take at least one picture everyday. Post it to flickr. [BTW, My Flickr.]4. Every week, read a magazine you’ve never read before.5. Once a month interview someone for 20 minutes, work […]
SPACE summer 2007 team leader and student applications are available. Look on the right side of the blog under the section titled “SPACE 2007 Downloads.” You will see a Word document that you can download, fill out and email back. Feel free to pass the word along.
UPDATE 11-12:Oops. There is one […]
So many things in the past few days have reminded me of Cameroon for some strange reason. The Ghost is trying to blow some embers and I’m getting excited for the next season of SPACE come January. You should be too.
The biggest reminder, oddly enough, was the release of Mission:Impossible:III on DVD last […]
D has all the details.
Some friends and I are going to be posting some notes and reflections from The End of Poverty. [If you are reading this via an RSS reader, this post will probably be updated quite a bit.] This is the book that the One campaign is based on and if you like reading this […]
Although in a previous post, I told you that SPACE had a pretty low key pace this fall so far, there are definitely things moving. I’ve had a few people ask me about next summer’s plans and one of our Youth Min admins has already gotten a few parent calls asking dates and schedules. […]
In light of the Haggard news, Mark Driscoll from Mars Hill offers some good advice for all of us. Even if you aren’t a pastor, I think we can all reflect on these ideas and help our pastors out in these ways:
- Every pastor needs a pastor. Too often the pastor is seen as […]
Well, I thought it might be nice for those of you that actually read this bog of html to give you a substantial update. So, here it goes.
First, the Fall has given SPACE a very slow pace. We haven’t really done any student service/mission projects at all so far this school year. […]
“Movement builders must have the ability to give away and to lose control of money, members, and leaders. As Paul planted churches, he really “empowered” the new leaders. He gave them ownership — losing in the process a lot of control. Current churches or movements cannot bear thought of money-giving families, or key leaders, or […]
So last night after all the Halloween kids were done, we got one final knock on the door. A neighbor needed a ride to the airport so I thought it was either one last group of kids or my friend JM. Instead, we opened the door to see a bunch of high school […]
