NieuCommunities

A Playground In Vancouver.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

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‘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 [...]

Finding Life in the Middle of Nowhere

Monday, September 26, 2011

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Every year, Sam Metcalf – the President of Church Resource Ministries - hosts a weeklong retreat for about 20 developing male leaders within CRM. Because CRM (NieuCommunities is just one the many ministries within CRM) has missionaries scattered all...

Under Construction.

Friday, September 2, 2011

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Incarnation is extremely difficult within the context of one’s own family, let alone towards neighbors next door. To deliberately choose to live among fellow South Africans in Soshanguve, a township just outside Pretoria, is another matter entirely. I have great respect and admiration for my dear friends within InnerChange, an incarnational order made up of [...]

The Devastation of Attrition.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

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God is at work in Cambodia…

Seed Stories [July 2011].

Monday, August 1, 2011

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Every quarter, CRM, the larger mission organization NieuCommunities is a part of, sends out a newsletter that has a simple aim: To tell stories that highlight brief snapshots of God at work through the larger family that CRM represents worldwide. At last count, CRM has over 450+ missionaries in 25+ countries worldwide. A global family, [...]

Thursday: The Art Of Conversation.

Friday, May 13, 2011

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Cracking my eyes open, I headed over to Joe and Natalie Reed’s house early Thursday morning for breakfast with our NieuCommunities Staff team, which is always a fun time around the table as the Reed’s have 3 children under 5! Malachi, their youngest, is in the early walking/touching everything/exploring stage, which means that he experiments [...]

So What Do We Do When The Police Come To Take Our Lives?

Thursday, April 7, 2011

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Yesterday I received my monthly donor support letter from CRM, our parent mission organization. At the start of each month, a story from a CRM missionary somewhere in the globe is distributed as a way to say thanks to the thousands of individual donors that support the 425+ CRM missionaries serving God in 25 countries worldwide. [...]

At Some Point, We All Must Go.

Friday, March 25, 2011

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Shortly after I returned to Pretoria to begin work as Field Staff a year ago, our missional community quickly realized that NieuCommunities still found itself entering into a season of transition. Initially we believed that as several Field Staff had moved into different areas of mission around the country or with CRM in other parts [...]

Picking Up A Shovel.

Saturday, June 12, 2010

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May_receipting ltr Click on the link above to see a little something I wrote up for CRM’s monthly receipting letter to all donors in May 2010. Privileged to continue figuring out how to carry this story…

My Pack Of Gum.

Monday, April 26, 2010

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Mulling over what to write about this morning (Remember, it’s all about putting something written on the page), I realized that I have several prompts that would make great posts, but no willpower, time, or mental energy to pull them together into something cohesive. Instead, here’s what’s in my current pack of gum (For the [...]