College Vision
This past Thursday was the second vision talk for Kilns College. We were able to pull a recording… so if you are interested at all in the college, click here and you can hear what it is all about!
Half Birthday
Today is Mary Joy’s half birthday. Half birthday’s are an invention we came up with a couple of years ago as a family tradition and a way to celebrate the kids relationally without all the presents and cakes that go with actual birthdays. Here is a picture of Mary Joy playing at the jumpy booth
P.L.A.C.E. Ministry
Pretty excited about the new ministry placement program that Courtney Christenson and Justin Lavik have been working on at Antioch. I think that lack of commitment usually comes from lack of clarity… in other words, we don’t know what we were made to do and therefore we don’t have confidence to pursue it. Another way
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Vision Talk
Tomorrow night is the last vision talk on Kilns College. If you’d like to hear what is going on in the area of education in Central Oregon, that you don’t want to miss out. You can find directions and read more by visiting our (soon to be spruced up) blog at: www.blog.kilnscollege.org
It’s worth the 40 minutes!!
Click here to watch Stephan Bauman’s message at Antioch on Sunday.
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Fast Pass Class
We have a Fast Pass Class this Sunday and Monday night (Antioch’s version of a membership or intro class). I love these things because I never get tired of sharing the vision of our church!
Lewis on the Classics
C.S. Lewis has a great introduction to Athanasius’s “On the Incarnation” that makes me want to read more. He writes the following: Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore, need the books that will correct the characteristic mistakes
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Waterskiing
So I’m not a big waterskier, but I had a great meeting with the chair of our elder board, Jim Wilkens, today and he said at the end that he really feels like Antioch is beginning to click along; and, the analogy that came out of it, was the moment when a waterskier planes out.
Stephan Bauman
Below is a writeup on our guest speaker at Antioch this Sunday. It should be pretty fun!! Stephan Bauman is the Senior Vice President of Programs for World Relief. Stephan previously served as Country Director for World Relief Rwanda and Director of International Programs for World Hope International. He worked for Mercy Ships International directing
Moody Biography
I was reading in a biography of D.L. Moody tonight and liked the way it wrote up the famous encounter Moody had with an evangelist on his British trip. I’ve never been too taken with this story or this quote until now: It was during this first visit to Britain that Moody heard the words
