Posted in Blogroll, church, emergent, emerging, missional, thoughts, youth ministry on May 13, 2008 | No Comments »
currently reading Shaped By God’s Heart.
is it possible to move a youth ministry from merely surviving to thriving?
is that possible if the church is not moving in that direction?
what implications would be involved with either?
i’m not sure what it is that God is doing right now, all i know is that he is moving me [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, thoughts, youth ministry on May 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Sunday Teaching Series: Outflow (Week 1 of 5)
Message Title: Overflowing Life
Sermon in a Sentence: Our lives are to allow God’s love to flow from us to those around us, based on Acts 1:8.
Weekend Scale of Difficulty: 8 out of 10
Attendance: (will be updated once I know)
Service Length: 76 minutes
Understandable Message: B+
Volunteer/Student Involvement: C- Many [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, emergent, emerging, missional, youth ministry on May 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
i am reading a few books right now that talk about the emerging church, emergent church, and the missional church. it has me wondering if we really know what each one is really all about. and what impact would any one of them have on a youth ministry within either construct?
what is an emerging [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, missional, youth ministry on April 28, 2008 | No Comments »
this years conference was an amazing expression of what touches the heart of god and what he requires of each on of us in our relationship with him.
conference theme
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you?
To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, ministry, missional on April 25, 2008 | No Comments »
Saturday, April 26th, 9-11am Breakfast: What Justice Requires—Canadians and the Struggle for Human Rights, International Justice Mission Speaker (IJM): Jamie Macintosh.
Sunday, April 27th: National Dress Day: Come to the morning services dressed in the national dress of your home country! Guest Speaker: Sharon Cohn Wu (IJM)
i’m really looking forward to this finale weekend of our three week global outreach conference. [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, missional, news on April 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Breakfast with International Justice Mission
Time: 9:00-11:00am
Location: Founder’s Hall - The Peoples Church
Cost: $5.00
What Justice Requires—Evangelical Canadians and the Struggle for Human Rights
Scripture calls us to “seek justice [and] rescue the oppressed” (Isa. 1:17). So why are Evangelicals sometimes so skittish about engaging in justice issues? Have we so privatized our faith that it is of [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, missional on April 20, 2008 | No Comments »
heard shane claiborne speak twice today at the global outreach conference for our church.
i’m still processing everything that he said and what god said through him to me. my wife and i have started to dialogue about what it is that we hear god saying to us. this is not an over-night fix or decision that [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, missional, news, youth ministry on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
27,000,000 slaves in the world today. how do you tolerate that injustice?
Movie Night - Amazing Grace
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Main Auditorium of The Peoples Church
Cost: FREE
An epic movie about William Wilberforce and his heroic efforts to abolish the slave trade in the British Empire. You won’t want to miss this!
Popcorn will be served!!!
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, missional, thoughts on April 14, 2008 | No Comments »
Sunday, April 13th
This was a great kick-off to our Global Outreach Conference.
Phone call to one of our missionaries in Poland who is just recently on the ground and what they are experiencing and what they are being challenged by God as they start out. 0.2% of Poland is Christian (that’s less than Saudi Arabia.)
Krystall this award-winning [...]
Posted in Blogroll, church, global, youth ministry on April 11, 2008 | No Comments »
hiv/aids: 2008 theme
8:00am: students started fasting today (they break fast @ 2pm saturday)
92: students involved
20: volunteers
15: student leaders
$4281.00 raised.
that will feed 143 families for one month or
one family for the next 11.9 years.
Paradox of Living
