Serving up Jesus Sandwiches in Joplin

They are more than numbers…they are people.  Though the number of deaths continue to climb to over 130, and the number of missing falls below 200, each number is a person.  That’s what we have to remind ourselves again and again.  They are a body, soul and spirit, each one.  GPC and the teams that our going up to Joplin daily are doing more than moving heaps of trash, they are...

Joplin Recovery and Compassion stories

I want to share a daily report that came from Caleb G. our on the field Project Coordinator.  The work they are doing is touching lives and showing compassion.  After the team met and prayed this morning at 6:30, they left Grace Point and head an hour and half north to Joplin where over 125 people have died and 200 plus people are still missing.  This is Caleb’s report.  There will be...

Mobilizing the Church (Pt 2)

To pick up from my last blog (nearly 2 months back- warn you that I am not a regular blogger).  However, this topic of mobilizing a church to be on mission is a passion of mine.  I get a lot of  inquires on the ‘why’ and ‘how’ GPC remains missionally focused.  The only way I can say that GPC stays missional is that I as a pastor have to seek to remain personally...

Mobilizing the Church

I sat in a room writing this blog with 64 people in the background being trained out of our dear fellowship of believers.  I am amazed and excited that this year, 2011, we are expecting that 12% of our attenders and members  will be traveling into another context than their own familiar ways and worldview to serve, live, and give of themselves for a period of time. Some will go for one week...

What makes a good Global Adventure GREAT?

I am back one full week removed from the best trip I have every been on to West Africa.  This was my 5th time to our long-term strategic partnership village.  I feel like every trip I have taken we have seen hand of God at work, and have little regrets with any of them.  Every trip has had its life altering elements that I wouldn’t change for the world.  This trip, however, was...