I have known Doug Jones over at Perigrinatio (www.perigrinatio.com) for a bunch of years. We first met when we were both serving on a Sonlife event team we held in Baltimore at The Johns Hopkins University.
We have become very close friends since that time we first met. I can honestly say that Doug [...]
Archive for February, 2008
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I am reading a book called, The Mission of God: Unlocking the Bible’s Grand Narrative by Christopher Wright. Dave Rahn a friend and mentor was the first person to recommend this to me nearly a year ago. I have finally have gotten around to making it a priority.
I have read a lot on [...]
I am in the Smokey Mountains (Gatlinburg) of TN this weekend speaking at a retreat called Encounter. There are a bunch of students and youth workers here, mostly from Northern Alabama as the retreat is a gathering of churches from The Northern Alabama Conference of the United Methodist Church.
I am speaking about my book, [...]
I have been doing consulting with churches and organizations on and off for a couple of years now. I have come to love consulting as much as anything else I do these days. In some ways, I think that consulting with churches and organizations might be my greatest contribution to the Kingdom. [...]
On Monday and Tuesday of this past week I was in Boise, ID. Mike and I were meeting with Allelon and also with Mike Kipp from NNU. Great times…
While in Boise I met a new friend named Rickard. Rickard serves on the research team of Allelon and also cooperates with God and [...]
My good friend Doug Jones is blogging again! I love Doug’s blog! He has very thoughtful, inspiring, challenging and relevant posts. You can check out his blog here:
http://www.perigrinatio.com/
Enjoy!
You may or may not already know that Mike King and I are hosting a gathering we are calling Prelude in April. I am excited to be with those of you who have already registered.
Today, I got word from our office that we have someone coming all the way from the Philippines! I [...]
As some of you know, the last few months I have been commuting from the greater Chicago area to Kansas City. Our home is on the market and along with so many others around the country, we sit watching the current economic reality scare people — making them more hesitant to buy — and [...]
In the last chapter of my book, A New Kind of Youth Ministry, I make an attempt at trying to help the reader get a start on the process of re-culturing their ministry or leading change. Some have wished I would have done more to outline the components of the re-culturing process and others [...]