You’re Invited to Golden Hill

This fall we are thrilled to have the capacity to invite 10 aspiring missional leaders into our one year apprenticeship at our NieuCommunities site in Golden Hill (San Diego).  Although we understand that we are all apprentices of Jesus, this experience is guided by mentors who foster and coach our NieuCommunities’ apprentices towards their unique …

Thin Places Launch & Video Trailer

While I have been at work on the development and writing of Thin Places: Six Postures for Creating and Practicing Missional Community for over a year, the contents are the culmination of over 10 years of lived theology, story and practice.  While I love to write, this project has been uniquely fulfilling as it is …

When Dreams Meet Reality: Life in Intentional Community

After years of being a youth pastor, I remember the time I came home from yet another event that required endless administration, energy and resources and asked myself, “Is this what it means to be the Church?  And if so, there have to be better ways to embody the supposed life-giving, relational aspects of Jesus …

Just Peacemaking Final Video: Mustard Seeds of Hope

My friend Eliyahu is one of the hero’s we must highlight as advocates for the peace/shalom/salaam of Jesus. He is a Jewish Rabbi and founder of Jerusalem Peacemakers. In the village of Zakarias meeting with Jewish Israeli settler (on far left) and Muslim Palestinian (second from right). The Jewish couple that helped start the Neve …

Just Peacemaking #3: A Call For Interfaith Dialog

With my friend/owner of a local pizza place in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem. In East Jerusalem where the majority of people are devout Muslims.