Missional Multi-site churches: Skeptic turned believer (Pt 1)

I have to admit I was a skeptic with the multi-site church model at first.  My first thoughts were negative due in part to what I had seen as  a “celebrity model” demonstrated.  A celebrity model multi-site approach is more of a way to promote a central figure and multiply mega churches, rather than reproducing new leaders and break off the mega-church into more of a community...

Hunger and the Holocaust

Are we ever really hungry?  In the Western world we eat for enjoyment, therapy, love, social gatherings, and the list goes on.  Some fitness experts tell us we should eat 6 light meals a day to ward of hunger pains; consequently, never feeling the pains of hunger.  The idea of eating 6 meals a day doesn’t even fit into the schema in the under-developed, under- resourced world.  My...

I miss my wife…but she can leave anytime

I am so excited!  My wife left me on March 16th with a group of 7 other women.  This isn’t the first time she has left me.  She’s gone to Amazon without me, bungied with a team of volunteers off the Vic Falls bridge in Zambia without me (while would anybody jump off a perfectly good bridge), she discovered, with 3 other ladies from GPC, a little village in just south of Timbuktu,...

The New Face of Missions

“The future is already here–it’s just not evenly distributed.” -Author William Gibsoni Here is an article that is worth reading if you are a Beyond Borders thinker like myself.  Eric Swanson, of Leadership Network (and outstanding para-church thinking, equipping and catalyst organization) had this article in their recent Network Advance. It is a great help for...

Stand by Me

Sometimes we just need a creative gentle reminder that we are called to “love our neighbors to the same degree that we love ourselves” (McDaniel Paraphrase).  Find someone in the world to stand by today!  Venture out, love someone beyond your normal, everyday circle.  Expand your community! Playing For Change: Song Around the World “Stand By Me” from Playing For Change...