Dances with Volvos [1]
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT Jan and I continue to travel travel the West raising support for our university church plant in Berkeley. We basically live in our old Volvo and stop in at home in Springfield to do the laundry and pay bills a few days a month. Today we are in Utah with Trinity Jordan at Elevation Church, having come here from visiting with Brad and Julie Riley at the Origins Community in Boulder, CO. Along the way we visited with some family who were meeting in Wyoming, giving us the chance to drive...
Musical Reverse Mentoring [2]
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT A 5-year old drummer from Poland illustrates the Reverse Mentoring concept of the young showing the old how it’s done.
The House [1]
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT Last weekend Janet and I visited our friends Randy and Heidi Jumper at First Assembly of God in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Randy heads up The House, First Assembly’s young adult ministry. On some Friday nights the ministry holds a prayer meeting they call Sanctuary. Jan and I attended an hour-long session that dealt with Peace and Love as fruit of the Holy Spirit. We did Scripture meditation and some small group discussion in one room and then moved into a second space for another...
Code Pink [2]
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT On a recent trip to Berkeley Jan and I had a chance to meet some members of an anti-war group called Code Pink as two of them protested outside the US Marine Corps office. We talked with them for a while and watched them protest by singing what I would call anti-military parody songs karaoke-style as one of them swung a large hoola hoop around her waist. Jon Stewart of The Daily Show recently featured this video report on the Code Pink initiative in Berkeley. We found the Code Pink women...
Post-Elliptical
1 Jan 1970 12:00am GMT Visiting the East Bay (Berkeley/Oakland) area in April Jan and I connected with a young woman who lives there. With her enthusiastic help, we toured some of the region and started learning a few of the million things we need to know to live there. Our new friend is heavily involved in fitness activities (especially biking) and so began to explain the Bay attitude toward things physical. In southern Cal, she opined, fitness is about vanity. One works out in that region to see and be seen,...