This morning I went over and joined some of my friends at
Mission Alive, a church planting organization led by…
Added by James Nored on June 17, 2009 at 9:00pm —
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Mary & I were on our way home from OK City after sharing our testimony and casting the vision that recovery is in fact for everybody, when we were stopped dead in our tracks at one of those times in life when all you can say is, “WOW!”
We were getting off the plane in Dallas and as we entered the terminal all we could hear & see were hundreds of people standing around our gate clapping and cheering. Now this can be pretty intimidating when it seems that you may be the focal…
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Added by Mac Owen on June 10, 2009 at 5:47pm —
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http://www.10news.com/news/19562217/detail.html This is a disturbing story about a small group study. A local DJ mentioned this in the morning news and I had a hard time believing it until I checked it out. The story showed up on Drudgereport this morning.
Added by Mike Eppinette on May 28, 2009 at 9:05am —
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Several Simple/Organic Churches in the Dallas-Fort Worth area will be meeting in Lancaster to help the elderly with some of their yard work this Saturday.
In June, there will be another outreach in Lancaster for the poor as food, clothing, and toys will be given to those in need.
This will be followed up by another similar outreach in…
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Added by John Lunt on May 27, 2009 at 6:54pm —
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Starting this Wed., our church will have four nights of "High Pointe in the Park," where we will go as a church into various settings where we can be with non-Christians. This Wednesday, we will have a small group of people go over to the
Samaritan Inn, ahomeless shelter in McKinney (and the only homeless shelter in Collin County).
The women who go will give "spa" treatments to the ladies of the…
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Added by James Nored on May 22, 2009 at 10:00am —
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Missions Resource Network is streaming their conference. http://www.ustream.tv/channel/Missions-Resource-Network
What do you think about the discussion that you are hearing? The streaming format? Also, what streaming technologies and websites are you familiar with? Which ones do you recommend?
Added by James Nored on May 14, 2009 at 2:39pm —
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So how can you build an online presence? There is a lot that goes into this, but one tip that I wanted to share today is, give something away for FREE!
Give out good, valuable free stuff that people want and that they will tell their friends about. Yes, that means giving away some stuff that you might not normally (like resources you have written or created). With the Internet, we have shifted from a model of receiving payment for content (like books, etc.) to receiving payment for…
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Added by James Nored on May 7, 2009 at 11:05pm —
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One of our members sent me this great Swine Flu prevention tip.
Don't Do This!
Added by James Nored on April 29, 2009 at 4:30pm —
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But Life is Harder
For some time now Chris and I have been in conversations regarding the difficulty of cultivating authentic community - where people are actually invested in one another's lives and attempting to live beyond merely transactional relationships. This is a fundamental part of our vision for church planting.
And yet we've sat around the table with other church planter friends listening to their stories of community…
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Added by Bret Wells on April 29, 2009 at 12:29pm —
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A book that I recommend for church leaders to go through together is Missional Renaissance: Changing the Scorecard for the Church by Reggie McNeal. Reggie McNeal is a part of Leadership Network and is a nationally known missional leader. I also have an affection for him as one of my teachers in the D.Min. program at Fuller Theological Seminary.
I owe a lot of my ideas for the practical outworkings of missional theology to Reggie. (He also is a…
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Added by James Nored on April 23, 2009 at 2:43pm —
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Does anyone have any experience with an ESL course at your church?
What material did you use? How did you set it up?
I have experience with Let's Start Talking and the Friendspeak program but we are looking at something with a different teacher/student ratio at this point. Maybe you have some thoughts on that.
I have asked some people but no one has gotten back with me so I thought maybe someone out here might be able to help.
Thanks.
Darin
Added by Darin Hamm on April 18, 2009 at 8:40pm —
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In case you somehow missed it, here is a link to one of the most inspiring vidoes in a long time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY (I would embed this, but unfortunately, the embedding was requested to be disabled by someone.)
This video shows, Susan Boyle, an unemployed 47 year old cat owner who has never been kissed, on the show, "Britian's Got Talent"--the precursor show to American Idol. No one expected anything from this…
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Added by James Nored on April 17, 2009 at 10:11am —
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Church Blog Theory Seminar
How do we share the message of Christ in the 21st century?
Please join us for a free seminar discussing how to use faith based blogging, integrated with other social media, as a strategy to deploy the truth online and develop relationships aimed at sharing Jesus with our community.
Date: Saturday, April 25th, 2009
Location: Harding…
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Added by Ryan Parsons on April 10, 2009 at 8:51pm —
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This week Newsweek came out with a front page article entitled
"The End of Christian America."
This article was prompted by the recent religious survey of Americans that we recently reported on. This survey showed that the percentage of Americans that identified themselves as having no religion has doubled in the last decade to 15% of the US population. This is but one of many signs pointing to the…
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Added by James Nored on April 8, 2009 at 5:24pm —
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On Sunday, we had an "Easter Eggstravaganza." We invited the community to join us for an Easter egg hunt, a meal, a petting zoo, and a bounce gym. We had a great turnout, with numerous people from the community. I met guests that our members had invited, and one woman from the McKinney paper advertisement.
Becki and I were able to engage guests in conversationa and invite them out to Easter and our new sermon series: "The Office: Spirituality at Work." We had our newly printed invite…
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Added by James Nored on April 7, 2009 at 4:49pm —
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Chat with Oakland A's Brad Ziegler
[The following is on ESPN.com The website is http://proxy.espn.go.com/chat/chatESPN?event_id=25774
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Welcome to The Show! On Friday, we'll have a special guest coming to SportsNation when Oakland A's closer Brad Ziegler stops by to chat.
Ziegler stormed on to the MLB scene last year, when he set the record for most scoreless innings…
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Added by Greg Ziegler on April 3, 2009 at 11:13am —
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As I shared with you last week, Bobby Ross has written a column on social networking in his column in the Christian Chronicle.
The article is now posted online (click here). Check it out!
Bobby quotes me and references the Missional Outreach Network. Of course, this site is not about me, but about all of you and how God is moving amongst us to help us work…
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Added by James Nored on April 1, 2009 at 2:58pm —
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Dear Fellow Bloggers,
Today April 1st. 2009, marks the beginning of
Internet Evangelism Month.
Our Purpose: To promote all forms of internet outreach but especially faith-based blogging as a strategy to improve the church’s presence online and to promote individual personal evangelism.
Our Goals:
1. Increase awareness of internet based…
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Added by Ryan Parsons on April 1, 2009 at 12:18am —
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... is a slogan I heard often during the years I taught missions at a place called Harding University. We had a lot of the younger generation who wanted to 'make a difference' in the world and I wondered how long that idealism would last. Best I remember we figured about 18 to 20% of the mission interns we sent out each summer actually returned later to serve full-time in missions for at least two years outside the United States. Not to shabby, maybe.
So whatever happened to the…
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Added by Sam Shewmaker on March 28, 2009 at 3:04pm —
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Hey guys. Bobby Ross, reporter for the
Christian Chronicle. emailed me today to let me know that he will talk about social networking in his column in the upcoming issue of the Chronicle. He talks about Facebook, his own experience with social networking, and our site, the Missional Outreach Network.
The Chronicle goes to print on 3/25/09, so I assume the web version will be updated then too. Check…
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Added by James Nored on March 24, 2009 at 2:00pm —
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