CRM: Empowering Leaders
Peace + Joy.
DOWNLOAD THE ADVENT 2011 READING GUIDE I WROTE FOR 3rd PLACE HERE. ADVENT WEEK 2 {04.12-10.12}: THE S[c]ENT OF PEACE Peace |pēs| noun: freedom from disturbance; mental calm; serenity. Texts: Isaiah 40:1-11; Psalm 85:1-2, 8-13; 2 Peter 3:8-15a; Mark 1:1-8 Meditation: The scent of peace: Knuckles calmly kneading dough into for- mation, spreading yeast throughout [...]
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8.December.2011
A Playground In Vancouver.
‘Vancouver is a playground awaiting your leadership + vision.’ Rob Yackley’s words continued to ring around our ears as we processed all that we had just dialogued about. Had Maxie and I been invited into a process of discernment and dialogue or was it just our imagination? Barely a month removed from our honeymoon, we [...]
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30.November.2011
Life Compass With Oasis ZA (September 2011).
The Unfolding Story: 18 Oasis ZA First-Year Change Agents (primarily college-age South African youth from local townships) spending an entire week (September 19th-23rd, 2011) developing a vision of their preferred future in the context of a creative community development organization birthing fresh stories of transformation and change all through Cosmo City, a suburb of Johannesburg [...]
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29.November.2011
S[c]ENT//Advent 2011.
DOWNLOAD THE ADVENT 2011 READING GUIDE I WROTE FOR 3rd PLACE HERE. S[c]ENT//ADVENT 2011 Scent |sent| noun: a distinctive smell, esp. one that is pleasant. From Old French sentir, meaning to ‘perceive or smell.’ Sent |sent| verb: cause to go or be taken to a particular destination; affect with powerful emotion; put into ecstasy. What if the [...]
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22.November.2011
Thin Places
This past Saturday I ran into some of my friends from the park as I walked through the Farmer’s Market in our neighborhood. One of the friends was Matt, my team mate with NieuCommunties, walking through with his two young boys. Matt and another park friend and I decided to browse the market for a [...]
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10.November.2011
The Silence of Christ
This comes from a reflection I offered our community recently. It has been a source of deep communion in my own heart and I wanted to share it wider. “Go pray about that, and you will find your answer.” The … Continue reading →
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9.November.2011
a new day is blooming
This past weekend our community had a sacred envisioning retreat down in Mexico. God graciously shielded and guided us through an exciting but also emotional time for our community. As with the human experience of giving birth, the birthing of a new co…
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1.November.2011
A Little YouTube Love.
My first editing effort. Pretty proud of this (totally imperfect) effort to capture the Life Compass project we are carrying! Read the full [60* Second Field Stories] here. Increasingly, Maxie and I have found ourselves facilitating Life Compass training, a holistic developmental tool that uses a narrative story driven process to empower and individual or [...]
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27.October.2011
God Is At Work In Kenya!
God is at work, BIG TIME, here in Nairobi, Kenya. Maxie and I have been working with almost 40 Kenyans this entire week, facilitating the Life Compass process for them. Today was so fun, challenging, and profound, as we opened up a conversation on vision, calling, and the stories we are to tell with the [...]
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25.October.2011
From San Diego with Love
So I arrived back from an amazing trip to San Diego, California last week. Although I was only there for a week it was a experience-crammed week! It was so good to see my friends Rob and Laurie (Founders of NieuCommunities, amazing hosts and all round good people) and the NieuCommunities San Diego people. [...]
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12.December.2011
Chris Kamalski, South Africa