CRM: Empowering Leaders

5.March.2012

Curtis Love, South Africa

NieuCommunities: A Missional Monastic Community (Part 1 of 2)

NieuCommunities is a Missional-Monastic community. What the…? What does that mean? Let me explain. NieuCommunities as Monastic: For 7 years NieuCommunities operated from Pangani. A truly remarkable property 20min north of Pretoria, nestled at the base of the Magaliesburg mountains. The first thing you notice when you step onto Pangani is the fresh, clean air [...]
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28.February.2012

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

12 Significant Photographs.

Download ’12 Significant Photographs,’ our 2011 year-end report here. “Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop” (Ansel Adams). Of all people to suggest such a modest creative output, Ansel Adams’ assertion that there are but a few significant photographs in our lives each year is a metaphor that extends way beyond the [...]
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27.February.2012

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

The Breathtaking Empty Space of an Open Door.

Read the latest [60* Stories] update, “The Breathtaking Empty Space of an Open Door,” here as well. [The Breathtaking Empty Space of an Open Door] “Lord, help me now to unclutter my life, to organize myself in the direction of simplicity. Lord, teach me to listen to my heart; teach me to welcome change, instead [...]
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24.February.2012

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

Curve Balls

Growing up in Indy, I remember the hot summer days at the baseball diamond.  I remember stepping unto the plate to bat only to be greeted by nasty curve balls my friends had learned to throw.  They knew I could hit most any other pitch but the curve …
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24.February.2012

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

"We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But…"

““We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly…
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24.February.2012

Chris Kamalski, South Africa

Ash Wednesday at 3rd Place.

Download the Ash Wednesday Liturgy I edited and helped facilitate for 3rd Place here. “Ash Wednesday, an echo of the Hebrew Testament’s ancient call to sackcloth and ashes, is a continuing cry across the centuries that life is transient, that change is urgent. We don’t have enough time to waste on nothingness. We need to [...]
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16.February.2012

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

Howzit?

Since Saturday’s horrific tragedy in our family of communities here, my email box has been flooded with concerned and loving notes.  You have no idea how much that’s meant to us.  To give a more broad update to those who were unaware…S…
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14.February.2012

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

Children of South Africa

a journal entry in response to tragedy… in response to those we walk with every day… Talks after 1994 swirled about a new South Africa.  Not too many bought into it though.  Many have left the country, others have worked against it.  But…
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13.February.2012

Joe + Natalie Reed, South Africa

Pontsho Victor Boshomane

Pontsho Victor Boshomane: For our English friends, hop over to Google Translate to get this story.
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