We found out that we just got student status at University of Illinois – Chicago campus for this coming year… yay God! Now we will be able to meet on campus and proceed with some of the things that God has placed in our hearts. More than anything else, we will be joining God with […]
TLT in LA
For the last 2 days, I have been in LA with the TLT (Trans-Local Team). It has been an intense two days. We have been able to cover the planning for the November AMI General Conference and talk about some importance issues regarding AMI. We also tried to focus on building stronger relationships with one […]
Reaching More Campuses
After doing campus ministry for some time now, I am slowly beginning to see how college campuses and missions are linked together. Throughout the world, key universities are playing a major role in developing communities and even cities. Even here in Ann Arbor, a lot of what goes on in the community and the city […]
Making Room for Growth
It is hard to believe that over ten years ago, we started the church in Ann Arbor with mostly college students. Now, we are seeing growth in various areas especially in the married couples and families who have joined our church community. We are excited about starting up another small group for the married couples […]
Changes in Chicago
We, as humans, always resist change for some reason. Maybe the reason behind it is our desire for security or maybe it is our fear of losing something. Whatever the case may be, change is a vital part to growth – period. God has been truly faithful to the church plant on the Northwestern University […]
Heading Out to Chicago and LA
I am at the airport (once again) getting ready to board my flight out to O’Hare. Tonight I will be sharing with the church about some exciting changes that will be happening in September. As I reflect back on the last 11 months of this church plant in Evanston, it is humbling to know that […]
TC Prayer Summit 2007 Update 2
The leaders of our church had a great time praying together. There have been moments in the history of our church where the Spirit of God has allowed us to have concentrated times of prayer. It was crucial that the leaders of our church first set the example in praying for the things that are […]
TEAM Community Prayer Summit 2007
I am currently at our leadership prayer summit… what a way to get back into the groove of things right after a vacation… ha! This is a special leadership summit for us because we have the leaders from the Chicago church joining us. We saw the importance of having the same DNA as God is […]
Family Trip 2007
I am back on the blog sphere. I realized that trying to catch up on all the e-mails and correspondence over a week period will take some time… please be patient as I try to get to them as soon as I can. Our time together as a family in the last 5 days was […]
Man of My Word
Tomorrow I will be checking out of the blogging world for about 5 days or so because my family and my extended family will be going on vacation. With all my traveling, I was able to get 9 free tickets for the family. In previous vacations, I always brought my computer because I had to […]
Thoughts on “The Missional Leader”
There have been a lot of talk on the topic of “being missional.” It is exciting to hear about churches that are living out their calling as the “church.” In the Greek, the church is known as the “ekklesia.” It is made up of two words “ek” (out of) and “klesis” […]
Thoughts on “The Urban Face of Missions”
This book just confirmed a lot of things that were running through my mind in the last few years. Throughout my travels, I have noticed that the urban cities in the international scene were playing an important role in that particular country. Due to globalization and other factors, the cities around […]
Uganda Trip Update 4
This morning we went out to one of the leader’s ministry with the orphans. The road to the orphanage was pretty bad, but once we saw the kids all those things faded away. They presented us with a song as they welcomed us to their place (it is an African thing). I could not help […]
Uganda Trip Update 3
I am currently using Pastor Victor’s Samsung i830 PDA phone which has GSM. This is allowing me to update my blog. In recent years, I have traveled mostly in urban cities where access to internet is not a problem. But in my trip out here to Uganda, it is hard to get internet access without […]