Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
It has been a tough go for the Church in the United States over the past couple months. The name calling, division and posturing reached a deafening volume last week in the wake of the World Vision controversy around employing those in gay marriage. Noise. Massive amounts of energy poured into proving our “rightness” and …
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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 …
It was a bit of an emotional day for Janny and I yesterday as our dear friends, community mates and fellow NieuCommunities staff put together a “sending/blessing” time for us. If you haven’t yet heard, we are NOT moving out of our neighborhood and we are STILL leading our missional community (gathering regularly in our …
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 …
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When a new child is born into our community, we have a tradition of taking time to pray blessings over the new life as a way to acknowledge their sacred role not only in the life of our family, but in the life of the community we have entrusted ourselves to. This is not a …
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