Missions

All things missional, from overseas efforts to hometown contributions

  • Well the third day of Engage is behind me now. Still the same wonderful crew. Still the same joy. We did personality and behavioral assessment stuff this morning and had a most fascinating afternoon exercise. I won’t go into many details now but it involved a sort of scavenger hunt in the city of Venice

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  • Engage, Days 1&2

    John here. Well, it’s the end of the second day of Engage: LA and i’m finally taking a few minutes to write. It has been a remarkably busy, yet wonderful, two days. We’re staying in a condo in Venice Beach, about __ miles east of LA proper (I don’t know how far). It’s about three

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  • Destination LA

    Destination LA

        Well, I’m on my way. Destination LA. This week is major step in my life. I’m on an airplane to Los Angeles for the annual Engage retreat, a week of learning, interviews and exercises designed to help me know whether or not Christian Associates is the right organization for me and, vice-versa, whether

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  • One Week Ago

    It’s a funny thing, this thing called “time.” Sometimes it seems to move at lightning speed. Other times it doesn’t seem to move at all. Last week at this time I was airborne, flying with four others home from Miami after an amazing 8-day trip to Haiti. It feels like I just got back. It

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