CRM: Empowering Leaders
Chasing Daylight (Epiphany 2012).
Download Chasing Daylight/Epiphany 2012 meditations written for 3rd Place here. Download Chasing Daylight/Epiphany 2012 meditations written for 3rd Place here.
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16.January.2012
The Pangani Ark Of Transition.
Really proud of NieuCommunities South Africa for carrying forward the mission and memory of NieuCommunities South Africa into the heart of Pretoria from our old stomping grounds way out in Pretoria North, Pangani. I was initially called back to Pretoria to not only pursue Maxie (the real reason ), but also to help NieuCommunities South [...]
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25.December.2011
Christmastide (Advent has come).
Download the Christmas +Advent meditations here. Download the Christmas + Advent meditations here. CHRISTMAS DAY {25.12}: THE S[c]ENT OF CHRISTMAS Texts: Isaiah 9:2-7; Psalm 98; Titus 2:11-14, 3:4-7; Luke 2:1-20; John 1:1-14 Mediation: The scent of Christmas: Spicy cinnamon cider, mingling with the promise of a new morning through that first glorious cup of coffee. [...]
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19.December.2011
Love (Advent Week 4).
Download the Advent 2011 meditations here. Download the Advent 2011 meditations here. ADVENT WEEK 4 {18.12-24.12}: THE S[c]ENT OF LOVE Love |ləv| noun: deep affection or attachment to someone. Texts: 2 Samuel 7:1-11, 16; Psalm 89:1-4, 19-26; Romans 16:25-27; Luke 1:26-38 Meditation: The scent of love: The blending of dirty diapers and baby pow- der, selflessly [...]
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13.December.2011
What NieuCommunities Lives.
Rob Yackley, Director of NieuCommunties, is helping Jon Huckins write a book describing the postures of mission that form the common rhythm that make up the heartbeat of missional community together. It’s called Thin Places and is supposed to be out early this coming year! As a part of the story-telling process, they are gathering feedback about [...]
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12.December.2011
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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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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17.January.2012
Chris Kamalski, South Africa