As part of my new staff role with Thresholds, I’m thrilled to join a team of practitioners and teachers – who have been living into their call to lead missional communities for decades – in co-leading a brand new initiative to come alongside leaders all over the country who are forming/leading missional communities in a …
Tag Archives: missional
When Good News Looks Like Something: 5 Ways to Engage Your Neighborhood
I love my neighborhood. It’s not that it is all that glamorous or cool or “safe” or whatever. It’s that it is full of people who actually want to experience some kind of community together. There is a building sense that we all have some skin in the game and that our thriving is somehow …
Continue reading “When Good News Looks Like Something: 5 Ways to Engage Your Neighborhood”
Jesus’ Name is Alecia. Really??
Ruby and I were going for a long stroll as Janny put in one of her last long days of work before going on maternity leave. Because I know that our time as a family of three is quickly coming to a close, I walked hand in hand with my little gal with a bit …
Community as Sacrament: Part 1
A couple months ago I was sitting in the living room of one of the families apart of NieuCommunities here in Golden Hill listening to Rob Yackley describe the three values that shape much of the life and mission we seek to live into each day: Communion, Community and Commissioned. Using the three circles to illustrate …
Sometimes Good News Looks, Um…Weird.
This past week, one of the guys in our community noticed there was a San Diego wide Turkey Trot going down on Thanksgiving morning. It was then that he rallied our community in instigating our own neighborhood Turkey Trot clad in ridiculous outfits, homemade numbers and tons of laughs. Overnight we had 20 people participate …