The team is together. A great bunch of folks. We stuffed ourselves into a small van. My knees scrunched into the seat in front of me. I quickly forgot my discomfort as we drove our way through the center of the devastation of Port au Prince. Images scorched themselves into my mind. The poverty is beyond poor. Garbage and filth everywhere. People trying to live in the midst of it. I was sitting by a window and snapped over 100... Read more
The mind only recognizes that which it already knows. So when we say “The text says…“, what we are really saying is, “This is what I say and the text supports it!” No matter how liberal or conservative or fundamentalist we are, we bring our own minds to the text. There are as many interpretations of the text as there are those that read it. The experts in the law (read ‘text‘) were almost always wrong or didn’t quite get... Read more
Here are some thoughts that are going through my mind as I get ready to leave for Haiti early tomorrow morning: I am going to miss my family. I realize I’m only gone for a couple of weeks. But we are very close. Lisa and I are very much in love. It will be a difficult time to be separated. I am nervous. I always go into these trips a little anxious. I never know what’s going to happen. I’m... Read more
In just a couple of days I’m heading to Haiti and joining up with a team of church leaders and bloggers from the USA and New Zealand. An organization called Adventures in Missions (AIM) has created the Isaiah 58 project called “church to church” which enables American churches to partner with Haitian churches. Very simple. I like the model because it is based on relationship and community rather than a donor-recipient model. I hardly ever ask my readers to give,... Read more
I put this up for a contest yesterday. I entered all the contestants’ numbers into a random number selector, and the winner is Lauren from Ontario, Canada. She’s also a frequent commenter on this blog. Congrats Lauren! Read more
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