For the past two weeks I have been in Thailand visiting three different ministries. The Globalscope campus ministry house at Thammasat University in Bangkok was flooded for weeks. Indeed the whole university was under four to five feet of water. By the time I arrived the campus house was fully cleaned up and ready [...]
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This year CMF is hosting six webinars related to short term mission trips. Two have already taken place – one on tips for planning a trip, and the second on spiritual preparation for the trip. Thursday will be the third webinar, and it is one that I am doing. The subject is “cultural intelligence,” or, what are some [...] What a privilege for me to be asked to teach Maasai church leaders, nearly 25 years after leaving work with the Maasai in Kenya and Tanzania! The class I was asked to teach was on the subjects of Missions Trends and Leading a Missions Agency. The Maasai church, with some 100 congregations in the Community [...] We had an opportunity to take a bullet train, something I had never done before. Believe it or not, it got up to 348 kilometers per hour, which translates to 215 miles per hour, by far the fastest I have ever gone on earth. Then, a few hours later we took the magnetic levitation train. [...] Once or twice a year at our CMF training sessions I am asked to speak on the subject of “culture shock.” I published an article on the subject years ago in which I noted four stages of culture shock: 1) the romantic stage; 2) the realization stage; 3) the rejection stage (which often leads to retreat [...] The folks at Eastside Christian Church really know how to communicate! This past week-end was the second Sunday in their “Beyond Series,” moving the church from beyond where it is now to where God really wants it to be. “Beyond works” — the Gospel consists of not only doing good deeds but also sharing the [...] I’m in Kenya and have the privilege of traveling with Juan Rodriquez, missionary from the Domincan Repulic serving in Panama. He came at the invitation of his supporting church, White River Christian Church in Indianpolis to observe the ministry among the urban poor and perhaps share ideas and take ideas home about holistic ministry. Juan [...] The village of Haruma/Madoya in the Mathare Valley slum of Nairobi, Kenya is one of the areas we are working in. Haruma/Madoya has about 80,000 people, and being at the bottom of the valley, is the area where the poorest of the poor live. There are no amenities and there were no toilets. It is very depressing [...] I was in Kenya visiting a school and was surprised with a birthday cake. To show my thanks, I did a little ditty in front of the seven-hundred people. Probably a mistake! http://www.vimeo.com/9587162 |
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