I’ve been on a “Team Unity” kick with the staff at Antioch lately. The longer I go in ministry I’m beginning to believe that the best legacy we can leave as a church isn’t necessarily the great things we do, but the mistakes we avoid. Put another way, church health over the long run is
Last night was the beginning of a 6 week collaboration between Kilns College and World Relief NEXT of a “Congo Learning Group.” The Learning Group is a focused course on learning the issues, history, culture and opportunities to help with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). There were 52 people who showed up… For more
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Never in my life did I ever sit around and imagine that I’d be watching a ballet class. Guess what… Life is funny that way!!
Ann Moran is being interviewed tonight on KOHD news at 6:00 p.m. She’ll be talking about World Relief NEXT and ways that people in Central Oregon can get involved in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Sweet stuff!!
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I was with a couple yesterday graveside as they buried their 9 month old daughter. Some things I learned that I’ll never forget: – Both parents reading lists of things they were “thankful” to God for in giving them their daughter for 9 months. It was a paradigm shift for me. I thought of burials
I like this paragraph from the German theologian Karl Barth in 1948. “What objection could we really make if it should please God to carry his work onward and reach his goal, not through a further numerical increase but through a drastic numerical decrease of so-called Christendom? It seems to me the only question in
Sorry for the long break of blogging… hope to get some real stuff going again soon!! In the meantime, here are some pics from sledding today (our new New Years Day tradition).
Just finished reading the classic book by Joseph Conrad called Heart of Darkness. It was published in 1902 and is set in colonial Congo. It was one of the first books to expose the atrocities that took place under the Belgian rule in that part of Africa (then referred to by Europeans as “The Dark
The focal country for World Relief NEXT is the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The DRC is the biggest tragedy in the world… and practicly nobody is talking about it. In January 2008, the International Rescue Committee (IRC) survey found that “5,400,000 people have died from war-related causes in Congo since 1998—the world’s deadliest documented
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