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Oct 11: STOP DATING THE CHURCH

October 4, 2011

The title of this newsletter is the title of a book I am urging our church to read. The subtitle reads “Fall in Love with the Family of God”. The book is written by a young Pastor, Joshua Harris, who has done the church a great service by helping us see the Biblical priority of [...]

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adventure day…

November 22, 2010

Our ‘ adventure day’ ended up being just that—although NOT what we planned to do. After our 90 minute drive to the outside of the city we found our  Agro-Baobob Ropes Adventure course CLOSED on Mondays – it started to feel like the Griswalds pulling up to Wally World in National Lampoon’s Family Vacation. We [...]

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lunch and ‘new’ names

November 13, 2010

Well, we just returned from a terrific Lebanese lunch. We were joined by Rick , Arickson, Elisabeth and Alyssalynn – we’ll travel out to Bakel with Annelise and see Amadalee upon our return.
Everyone has received their ‘adoptive-Soninke’ names
Jim and Brett proudly carry our names from our previous visits – the others were initiated today:
Jim = [...]

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August 2010 Calvary Messenger

August 1, 2010

“Ministry 101″  – Just Like Jesus
I am presently reading a new biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer by Eric
Mataxas. I am only a third of the way through but can say that I have never read
a better written Christian biography. Bonhoeffer was born in Germany in 1906
and sadly was executed by Hitler when he was only 39. [...]

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