Entries Categorized as 'Community'

2007 goals…

Date January 2, 2007

Some goals for 2007
Family - spend lots of quality time with my two ladies. Become more and more a healthy and spiritual household of influence to our communities.
People - Consistently invest my time and resources into people - extended family, friends, maybe even some Christians
Ministry - I’ll be giving my time and energy [...]

Maximum wage?

Date December 28, 2006

Flipping through an issue of the Futurist, i stumbled across this revolutional concept for closing the wealth gap (ie. how in the United States 1% of the population holds more wealth than the entire bottom 90% combined).
In an article by Sam Pizzigati (www.toomuchonline.org) he proposes a ten times rule for a moving maximum wage. [...]

Mosaic Ottawa blueprint…

Date November 21, 2006

In the middle of taking a break from writing papers in the library today, I did a bit of dreaming and scheming for the future church plant. Inspired by the leadership synergy diagram from origins, I decided to flip it around and plot out some values of what I’ve been imagining. It’s been [...]

Reclaiming youth at risk…

Date October 2, 2006

I just finished reading Reclaiming Youth at Risk. I had my doubts at first. It uses Native American child-raising philosophy in helping create redeeming environments for our youth today. It has caused me to have a much deeper respect for the natie american people as well.
A quote from poet Edwin Markham:
He drew [...]

thoughts of the week…

Date September 21, 2006

Been totally drained, finally settling back into some level of functional normalcy today.
- monday I had classes from 8:30am-9:30pm. Arrived in Ottawa near 2am.
- Woke up at 6am to make it to Montreal for the IMN regional 9am-5pm.
Drove back to Ottawa by 8pm. Crashed after hanging with Andrew & Lisa at midnight.
- Wednesday. [...]

First week of seminary…

Date September 14, 2006

After four years of taking part-time classes, I’ve finally taken a much anticipated step of entering full-time studies. It was difficult integrating with the community as strictly a night student because those classes by nature were always over-sized with predominantly other students who worked full-time like I did and were in and out with [...]

Church Planting and Kingdom Advancing Network…

Date June 12, 2006

I plan on launching a Church Planting and Kingdom Advancing network (I need a shorter cooler name) on campus at Tyndale this Fall term. See the post that brought this about here.
Knowing next to no one, as I begin my first year full-time there as a student, I’m trying to make things ‘legit’ with [...]

The world is flat and invisible children…

Date April 24, 2006

I just finished my last paper for the term, and it looks like there’s no appropriate classes I can take in the summer, so I’ve got a couple months of living and working like a normal person.
I’ve gotten back on reading. Currently going through “The divine conspiracy“, “The secret message Jesus“, and I just [...]

Caleb…

Date April 18, 2006

Our small group just had it’s first baby. Chris & Sharon just gave birth to Caleb. what a great name…
Caleb was one of the spies who explored the Promise Land, but because the Israelites didn’t listen to his advice, they ended up wandering aimlessly for fourty years inthe desert. In Joshua 14, [...]

google calendar

Date April 12, 2006

I’ve been waiting forever for this. finally just got in the beta.
try logging in with you gmail at www.google.com/cl2
there’s a couple bugs still and not all features are enabled yet, but just an update on how much I love this already, here’s a screenshot of my current month.
What I love are the calendar overlays [...]

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