Missions Sunday [or as I am going to start calling it now - Pre Missions Sunday] was this past Sunday. It is the Sunday sometime in the spring or summer where the adult body gets to hear about all the summer teams. This time around, we were fairly ready with 3 out of […]
how em rolls Originally uploaded by tonytsheng.
seat belt - nah
crash helmet - absolutely
[Pre-Missions Sunday is this Sunday. If you are at Grace, we would love to meet you.]
Our summer support levels for this year are about 20% more than last year. That is a little daunting because I thought last year was a huge stretch goal. Honestly, I am a bit anxious about the […]
::: Papua New Guinea has the most number of languages of any geopolitical country.
::: Kevin Kelly - founder of Wired magazine speaks at the Q conference:
1000 years in the future is only 13 generations.. what was it like back 1000 years ago: gospel, church, culture, future.. noted the invention - technology of printing.. it changed […]
::: A city of 2 million without street names or addresses via Jordon
::: “She said in one sentence what 1000 missionaries in 1000 years could never do.” The real story of the 3 Christians killed in Turkey last week. via Floyd McClung [Floyd wrote one of the articles for Perspectives]
UPDATE: 2007-05-04Andrew Jones posts […]
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ah the innocence huh…
Another post in a series of posts based on the book The End of Poverty.
Chapter 10 - The Voiceless Dying
:: Deeper cause of Africa’s poverty than corruption. Ghana, Malawi, Mali, and Senegal failed to prosper whereas societies prone to more corruption such as Bangladesh, India, Indonesia enjoyed rapid economic growth. :: […]
[clockwise sort of]D, Robyn, Elly, Erin, Michelle, Lindsey, Sven, moi, Tyler, K, Em, Greg, Trevin, Tricia [not shown Leslie and Emilie]
We would LOVE for you to be praying for us.
And…
I was pretty convinced… but now I’m really convinced…
From talk 1 of this series:
::: malaria nets300M sleeping sites in Africa that need protection from malariaanti-malaria bed net costs $5 and last five years - $1 a yearmultiple kids sleep under onetotal investment - $1.5B for 5 yearsthe most amazing bargain of our time
::: the solution to overpopulation is child survivalit is a myth […]
::: England 07.England Parental Release Form
07.England Support Response Cards
::: Hungary 07.Hungary Parental Release Form
07.Hungary Support Response Cards
::: Baltimore07.Baltimore Support Response Cards
::: NYC07.NYC Support Response Cards
Thank You Inserts
Mission Support Letter Examples
Return Envelope Labels [Please note - These have been formatted for Avery 5160/8160 labels]
“No doubt some will reply that God is not a God of disorder, incoherence, or arbitrariness, but a God of order. Of course he is. Unfortunately the whole of the Old Testament shows us that God’s order is not that which we conceive and desire. God’s order is not organization and institution (cf. the difference […]
Dear Friends, Family, Co-laborers,
Each year, right around this time, Tony sits down and carefully constructs a support letter for one (or two) of his many missionary adventures. For years, I have been the whisper in the background, voice of reason (hehe – OK, maybe not ALL the time!), prayer support, and the organizer of […]
In light of the VT shootings…
- A youth worker guide to helping your students via Marko
- The Copycateffect blog [if you hang with students or on campus, you should skim this.]
- Our schools are dangerous places, just like the world we live in. They require bravery.
::: Update 2007-04-23Our friends on staff with CCC and […]
::: Campus Ministry Primer for Cities - via Jeremy
::: Global Subways to Scale - link
::: Cities not like ecosystems after all
mostly so i can remember these details…
::: Travel AgentSybille - bcdtravel.comManchester is closer to Liverpool than London
::: Passports Catonsville, MD post office is still doing them while you wait
::: The Shot LadyM Carrington - Columbia MD[no shots for any of our teams this summer]
::: Visa Servicehttp://www.americanvisadc.com/[no visas for any of our teams this summer]
- scan […]
If you are on the SPACE07 Baltimore team, you might be interested in this post from my friend Jeremy Del Rio. Jeremy is a good friend of SPACE and Matt Stevens, who runs Chain Reaction, is his partner in crime.
In The Tipping Point, in the chapter about ‘the power of context’, Gladwell writes about the relationship between character, context and behavior. He writes:
The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call […]
D and the Madre are in Savannah visiting her sister and their family. They stayed in a hotel last night near Dulles and flew out early this morning, so I have the little angels until Tuesday night. My parents will be coming to help out a bit Monday and Tuesday so I can […]
::: End of Poverty PodcastsLink via Jordon
::: China, the Olympics and SudanLink via Rudy
::: Your Future?
* If I were an engineer I would get a job with a company that works overseas.* If I were in college today I would study international business.* If I was graduating from college this spring I would take […]
This evening, our second summer team was finalized. The England team is now final and this leader team has already put together a schedule for their meetings, put deadlines on the team getting support letters done and distributed key contact information for the whole team. Wow, they are making me look lazy…
To give […]
::: Sam posts from Buckingham and StrengthsFinder on the myths that holds us back.
MYTH 3: A good team member does whatever it takes to help the team.TRUTH 3: A good team member deliberately volunteers his strengths to the team most of the time.
::: An interview with Rodney Stark [via Reinhold]
- One thing about religious […]
We’ve just put together some mission support letter examples via a public Google doc. Feel free to use it or pass it on to someone who could benefit from it. Link located in the upper right sidebar as well. [Note that our examples have some specific funding details you will want to […]
The Tipping Point - How Little Things Can Make a Big DifferenceMalcolm Gladwell[I know I’m late to reading this, but this was a fascinating read. Gladwell is a great story teller and there are some pretty significant principles in this book about leadership, movements and change.]
::: Law of the FewConnector - they know lots […]
easter saturday disney craft Originally uploaded by tonytsheng.
Easter crafts yes of course disney related. happy easter everyone!
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Sometimes when you are trying to ignite, you accidentally burn.
For some reason, I’ve been listening to selected tracks from Rattle and Hum over and over for the past few weeks. It probably has something to do with the CD mix I made entitled, “Fun with D’s Subwoofer.” [I almost like the title more than the mix.]
Specifically, tracks 3, 8, 9, 13, 14 […]
Yesterday, the development across the street from GCC had an Easter party. Right, an Easter party which is interesting enough. In our postChristian society, who does Easter parties anymore? Anyway, we took some one SPACE kids to help out. Kind of a missed opportunity in that I should have done a […]
