I’m sitting in the Best Western in Richmond, VA at the continental breakfast bar area. It’s been about 7 minutes since I had one of their breakfast sandwiches and things are already getting interesting in my stomach… but I guess that’s a story for another time… I’m here with Tom Ward of East Point Community Church in Deleware and George Palo of Harvest City Church in Ndola, Zambia. We’re meeting with some guys from our network, Ecclesia and we’ll be talking about more details regarding the partnership between George’s network of churches and our network. We had a great conversation on the way down about the current way of connecting churches in America and Africa and some of the challenges this approach brings. Basically, the...Read More →
Archive for August, 2008
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August 27, 2008
Ecclesia, Africa and Best Western Breakfasts
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August 25, 2008
The Natural
Most of you who have been reading my blog for a while know that Cole and I play baseball together almost everyday. While we were home in Chicago visiting my parents we actually went out and bought a wiffle ball and bat so we could play a bit in the back yard. Here’s some footage:
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August 25, 2008
The Natural
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August 21, 2008
At Wrigley Field with Cole
I’m writing this from Wrigley Field in Chicago. I came down with my brother, my dad and Cole. This is cole’s first time here and I’m not quote sure he gets how great this place is. I think in due time he’ll realize it, but today he was just excited to see Soriano play and by the 5th inning I think he was ready to go home. I’ve been to a bunch of games here, too many to count. But this has been the best one by far. Maybe some day I’ll be back here again to watch Cole play. He did say he wanted to play here someday and if you have seen his swing… Well, anything is possible!
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August 20, 2008
Comments are Back
For some reason my comments weren’t working the last two days. Someone finally brought it to my attention so now I realize that you all don’t hate me. Phew.
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August 19, 2008
ESPN.com Editing Blunder…
As you can see from the image below that I grabbed off of the internet someone at ESPN was so excited to get the story of Michael Phelps’ 8th gold medal on the web that they made a boo boo. Every week I do the bulletins for the church and almost every week there is a misspelling of some sort. Now I feel better. Click to enlarge the image if you can’t see it well enough:
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August 18, 2008
65 miles a gallon baby.
This is my “new” 1979 Yamaha xs400. Its not going to win any races or awards but it runs great, has 10,000 miles and they notoriously run forever. Now i have to learn how to maintain it. Time to get my hands all greasy. Yes, I will wear my helmet every time I ride. Yes, I am taking the free motorcycle safety course. No, I won’t do any wheelies. (It won’t!) No, its not that fast. Top speed is about 70 at the most. No, I won’t take it on the highway at all. Yes, my wonderful wife actually gave me permission to get this. Oh, and insurance on this bad boy is a whopping $45/year. Now we are going on vacation and I have...Read More →
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August 16, 2008
Celebrating Adoptions Family Photos
Last night we had a family photo shoot. It turns out there is a group out there called Celebrating Adoption that helps adoptive families get a free photoshoot and pictures from a professional photographer within the first year that the child is home. Its really a great program and the photographer we connected with was awesome. Angela Pursell did a great job interacting with the kids and taking some amazing shots. She has posted a few pics on her blog and we’re waiting for the rest of them to be posted on a gallery where we can choose our shots and order some more. Out of respect for her work I’ll not steal any of the pictures and post them here. Instead you’ll have to...Read More →
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August 15, 2008
Update on the Poverty Forum, Missions Trip, Anniversaries, The Well
So, I’ve had a few crazy weeks and blogging has been on the way back burner as far as priorities go. I need a short break from working on my sermon so here we go… This will serve as a summary and update of my last two weeks. Mission Trip To Suburbia I posted recently about our week long missions trip to suburbia. We basically spent the week serving in Lower Bucks County. We worked with different housing groups and social service agencies. A highlight for me was the evening we spent with the “Chapel and Chow” folks at Philadelphia Park Racetrack. There is apparently a chaplain there (Jack) who has been quietly serving the workers of the racetrack. Most of the workers are immigrants...Read More →
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August 7, 2008
Suburbia Conference with Al Hsu This Weekend…
I’ve been working overtime getting ready for what promises to be a great weekend with Al Hsu. We’ve had a lot of registrations and I’m excited by all the people who will be coming that I don’t know. Should be a great time of connecting with some other Christians who are from the area and even from out of town. There are still some tickets available. Hope to see you there… Information here.
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August 6, 2008
Why Do We Hate The Homeless?
For the last year or so we’ve had about 15 people going down to Love Park in Center City Philadelphia to serve, get to know and bring food to the homeless population that lives there. It’s been a very neat ministry and I’m pretty sure that these are the kind of people that Jesus would be reaching out to. But, over the last year or so I’ve begun to think that this kind of thing is what “any normal person would do.” I mean, how can you not have compassion on those who have no home? Admittedly I’ve only gone down once beacause of my schedule but the one time I did go was very eye opening. I was amazed to meet some of the...Read More →
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August 4, 2008
Interview with Al Hsu
Blogging time is hard to come by these days. Life has been crazy with the Zambia trip, our local missions trip, our poverty forum a weekend away camping and the upcoming Seminar with Al Hsu. With all of this, I have plenty to say but no time to say it. So, hopefully before too long I’ll find some time to sit down and do some writing… But, I am getting really excited about our upcoming conference with Al Hsu this Friday and Saturday. We’ll be talking about being missional in suburbia and for those who haven’t yet had a chance to read his book, you can at least get introduced to him by way of his interview on SubText, a blog focused on the idea...Read More →
