I was talking with someone on Friday and the topic turned toward the importance of community. Our context was a discussion about the reading of scripture, and I shared something one of my Fuller professors once said to a friend who was not interested in participating in any local church community but was committed to… Continue reading Why church?
Category: Church
I’m a prayer lady now
This morning I had the privilege of gathering to pray with a group of women who meet weekly to pray for the needs of the SCC family. My mom would always tell me about how this group, “the prayer ladies” as she called them, prayed for me over the years, especially during our time in… Continue reading I’m a prayer lady now
A few thoughts for Advent
I’ve come to see that all of us are travelers from here, to somewhere, to eternity! We travel not by Caesar’s but by hope’s decree that we might come upon some small thing that will make some larger sense of us, of our mysterious beginning and our end: a word, a silence, a fragment of… Continue reading A few thoughts for Advent
“The church that came to me”
I read with interest Dan Kimball’s recent post on Christianity Today’s Out of Ur blog where he posed some questions about whether or not “missional” churches are churches that bear fruit in terms of effectively making disciples. He points to larger “attractional” churches (Willow Creek, for example) whose buildings and impressive gatherings seem to, in… Continue reading “The church that came to me”
What I will miss, Part I
As we prepare to leave here in a few weeks, my head and heart feel full of thought and sentiment around what we will so deeply miss about our life here. I thought I would share a bit of those things here… Last night, I sat for a few minutes on our little front porch,… Continue reading What I will miss, Part I
Trusting that he who began a good work…
Yesterday I stood in front of our church family and tried to speak through my sobs as I announced that our family would be moving at the end of this month. Doug and I have accepted calls to serve my home church in Shoreline, Washington and we begin there on January first of the coming… Continue reading Trusting that he who began a good work…
Harvest Carnival ’08
Thanks for the many, many prayers. It was an amazing night!
Burning
It is hard to breathe here right now due to the heavy smoke that fills our air. It is easy to be reminded that countless families are suffering great loss as a result of the fires burning around L.A. as we, who are not affected, cough and choke with them. I always appreciate the reflections… Continue reading Burning
What family means on the street
A few weeks ago there was a shooting around the corner from our apartment, and in the chaos of the aftermath, one of our youth was nabbed by the police as he ran down Kenwood to go and check on some friends. The officers grabbed him, threw him to the ground, twisted his arm badly… Continue reading What family means on the street
Friends
Jelani’s got a great post up today about their visit here this past weekend. Check it out!