Living and Teaching Stories Rooted in the Mission of God
Every once in a while I sit back, reflect and realize what a gift it is to serve and live among a missional church community like ours. While the mission of NieuCommunities takes many different forms (click here for explanation of such forms), one key element is the weekly gathering of the church community. Every …
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Milad is my friend and a modern day hero. He loves Jesus, his family and kids who are broken and in need of healing. He works two jobs to support a non-profit he and his wife run, which promotes peacemaking and reconciliation among the youth in the West Bank. Milad’s family is from Jerusalem, but …
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NOTE: While I wrote this post three years ago, it is more relevant today than ever. I just got off the phone with a national leader who works with refugees and he described how his organization gets waves of new refugees after each international crisis. Currently, Syrians and Iraqi’s are pouring in, each with their …
Thanks to the generosity of a close friend, my family got to get away this week for a much needed few days of downtime up in Big Bear, CA. We are staying in a sweet little condo with a full kitchen, fireplace and patio. Janny and I came up for a weekend retreat I was …
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I recently had a conversation with NieuCommunities’ founder, Rob Yackley, about my role within the missional church community we serve among in San Diego (NieuCommunities has two other sites in Vancouver, BC & South Africa). Coming from a leadership paradigm where I had been used to getting a piece of paper with a job description …
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