Archive for July, 2007
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This Blog is Wearing New Clothes
If you aren’t using a feedreader to read my blog, you’ll hopefully notice that I’ve given the site quite a face lift. I basically started from scratch and redeveloped it from the ground up. I was the …
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The Well Website
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Mission Leaders Network
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One Village Coffee Portfolio Pic
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Language of Belonging
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Hostages in Afghanistan: Did You Even Know?!
There was a group of 23 Koreans kidnapped by the Taliban last week. 23. Kidnapped. They are a christian group and the pastor of the group was the first killed and “Police in southeastern Ghazni province found Bae’s …
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Book Recommendations?
I have a gift certificate to amazon.com that I am itching to spend. Anyone have any book recommendations that they want to share? What books have had big impact on you? What books did you find enjoyable. …
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Guatemala, Here We Come!
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I’m a Proud Member of The Junky Car Club
Most of the people who know me know that I have a sweet ride. It’s pictured to the left here.
Its a 1995 Plymouth Acclaim: Power windows, power locks, power steering. Giant …
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MereMission.org
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All You Can Be Coaching
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Thanks…
Melanie and I would just like to share our appreciation of all who have shown us such love and compassion over the last few days. I have a lot of thoughts in my head that I hope to get …
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Processing Loss…and blessing…
It is painful to share, but my wife Melanie had a miscarriage early Monday morning. She is physically doing alright and will have some minor surgery on Tuesday morning.
I was just observing yesterday with a friend how our family has …
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Our Adoption is D-O-N-E!
Yep, that’s right. Its been a crazy two weeks around the Hiestand house. First comes news of another new baby and Friday night we heard from our adoption agency that we are officially done with the final part of the …
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Mission Team Available to Lowest Bidder
So, The Well has about 12 people who are available from August 5-12 for some kind of mission trip. We had plans to head to New Orleans and work with a local church down there …
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Missional in Suburbia at Allelon.org
Allelon.org, a fantastic missional resource, has generously published my paper called, “The Gospel and the God Forsaken: the challenge of the missional church in suburbia” which I put up on my blog a few months back …
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Headed to Blacksburg (Virginia Tech University)
Melanie and Cole and I are heading down to Virginia Tech University tomorrow – Monday. I’ll be preaching at the two services at NLCF. NLCF is a church that was started by my friend …
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Don’t Look at Porn.
Or, perhaps I should say, “Stop looking at porn.”
J.R. Briggs’ faith community is hosting Craig Gross of XXXChurch fame. I really appreciate what Gross and his cronies are doing with their ministry and I even have their …
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My Wife is Pregnant…
Yeah, that’s right. We’re hopefully about 5-7 weeks away from finalizing our adoption and it turns out my lovely wife is definitely prego. She’s about 2.5 months along and after a week of walking around …
