This next Thursday there will be a lecture on Church and Missions at The Kilns by Don Golden. Don is senior vice president of church engagement at World Relief in Baltimore, Maryland. His passion to help churches help the poor and oppressed has taken him to more than 60 countries. Don’s new book with Zondervan,
Last week Antioch launched a pretty cool ministry to “help parents raise compassionate and mission minded kids.” It is called Mission Kids. Sometimes it is just plain hard for busy parents to find ways to serve alongside their kids or find opportunities to teach them about the needs of others in the world. I’m pretty
Just had a great meeting with Lorelei Mah, Director of Volunteer Resources at World Relief and wife of the CEO and President Sammy Mah. One of the things that people are always saying is that there aren’t tangible ways for people to go oversees or be directly engaged… and I was amazed at all of
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Had a full day of meeting with the World Relief folks here in Baltimore. Dan and I are staying in a makeshift room at the offices known affectionately as “Hotel Nicaragua“. The meetings have been amazing and World Relief has some pretty quality people doing some pretty amazing work around the world. Some random thoughts:
So I’m heading out at 4:00 a.m. tomorrow (that’s early!) to head to Baltimore with my friends Dan, Ann, Beth and Bill to meet with the folks at World Relief. It’ll be the first big step in getting the World Relief NEXT project off and running. It should be tons of fun and I’m expecting
Here is a brief meditation from Chuck Swindoll that I quoted in a sermon this morning. It had a profound impact on my life… hopefully there is someone else out there who it will speak to as well. ATTITUDE The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to
I’m finding myself for the first time in ministry dealing with the effects of a poor economy. Ministry takes money, but it’s not a fun thing to have to focus on or deal with. It’ll be a good growing experience, I’m sure, and it certainly has been good for my prayer life…
This Sunday we are launching a program that is one of the coolest and, seemingly, most important that I’ve seen in a long time. It is called “Mission Kids.” Mission Kids simply exists to help parents raise compassionate and mission minded kids! Parents who are compassionate or involved in ministry often wonder, “is any of
On October 19th, Antioch is having a “2 Year Anniversary Service.” It should be a ton of fun with some highlight videos and testimonies. I’m most excited, however, to hear from Ed Underwood our guest speaker for that Sunday. Ed is the Sr. Pastor of the historic Church of the Open Door in Southern California
A local non-profit ministry (Rise Up International) that does amazing work around the world to help at risk children is having a pretty creative fundraiser this Sunday night. Here is the video promo:
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