LeslieB, one of our long time SPACE students-morphed-into-leaders, has just been accepted for a Spring DTS at YWAM-SF. In case you aren’t up on the latest missions abbreviation lingo, that is Discipleship Training School at Youth With a Mission, San Francisco. A DTS is typically three months of classroom intensive training followed by […]
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Tomorrow’s missionaries don’t exist today. Yet…
Even though a lot of people say it, we have learned first hand that everything rises and falls on your leaders. In terms of mission teams, people typically staff for when things go well. Instead, you need to staff for what might go wrong. If you’ve got great leaders that can handle […]
If you read D’s post about today, you know about the interesting day I had at the hospital today. What you should correctly gather is that my family isn’t exactly a real time feed of relevant information.
Everyone including you and I, every second, is getting older. As we take care of […]
The Orbiters and I hung out in Silver Spring this evening with a small gathering of people that collected with M and the International Mentoring Network. Included were Alex McManus, Dale Swinburne [Catonsville], Jumaine Jones [The Bridge, Silver Spring] and Rich Merritt [VA Beach and Pennsylvania].
Here are some snippets of the conversation:- […]
My notes and background for the GCC 2007 India team training session. If any of it will help you, feel free to use it.
India 2007AMosertravel dates - late December, before Christmas, for two weeksorphanage and possibly leper colony8 team members [one didn’t come]all college/young adult age
::: FocusTeam unity.Why - 50% of long term teams […]
Staff of the Baltimore branch of the International Rescue Committee, an agency that helps resettle roughly 350 refugees each year, said they expect an increased number of Burmese immigrants as the unrest continues in Burma, which borders India on the west and China and Thailand on the east.
Recent immigrants, such as Mang, represent the second […]
::: Counterfeit drugs in Africa, impact on malaria and fighting fake drugs with mobile phones.Fascinating stuff. Link via My Heart’s in Accra
::: China’s 39M Christians
Most believe there were approximately 700,000 Christians in 1949, when China closed to traditional missionary activities. So 53-54 million Protestants and Catholics today still demonstrates remarkable growth.
Link via Nigel
::: […]
In over 17 years of student ministry, I have never personally led someone to follow Jesus who has turned into someone doing the same.
In 4 years of SPACE, we have never seen someone come from an irreligious background to devote their lives to Jesus, specifically due to SPACE, to continue on to reach others.
We track […]
Not just plain RocketFuel today, but some links you should definitely click.
::: If you are interested in space exploration, the human condition, cultural implications of extraterrestrial life or risking it all to live differently, — video.From TED, Carolyn Porco talks about two of Saturn’s 46 moons, lands unreached by humans and the possibility of […]
Em and I dropped in on some of our high school boys doing some light landscaping and painting at one of our local elementary schools this past Saturday. The connection to this school actually arose via our children - long story but the principal at this school used to be at our kids’ elementary […]
