Archive | November, 2008

What do you do with a church building?

November 27, 2008

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Happy Thanksgiving. As I was doing some online news reading this morning a story jumped out at me and so I decided I would go back and grab this photo that I took earlier this Fall in Basel Switzerland. This was one of the city’s main churches years ago. It is now a musuem. Europe [...]

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Basketball at Black Forest Academy

November 23, 2008

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Yesterday I went to the gym and played basketball with the high school boys team where our kids go to school and where my wife teaches espanol. The one word that would best describe my basketball experience would be “awakening”. I was awakened that I am in the middle ages and I no longer can [...]

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the guide

November 19, 2008

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On recent visit to an area where I had never really been before, I was faced with the task of how to enter into a couple of new cities. I saw the importance of the role of a guide because they were from that city and could speak the same language culturally and linguistically. The [...]

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Sent

November 17, 2008

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As a part of our Basel Lab experience we were sent out in two’s which is from the model that Jesus gave us in Luke 10 when he sent the disciples out two by two to the cities where he was about to go. I went out with my friend D. As we walked around [...]

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basel day two

November 8, 2008

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Yesterday was a pretty cool day in Basel. I will need to make this two posts just so this will not be super long. Plus, I only have a few minutes before we go out the door for day three. Part of our day is in the classroom where we meet at a local church [...]

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back in basel

November 6, 2008

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After several weeks off I finally made it back to my Basel experience. Sorry. Over the next four days I will be part of a small group of missional leaders who work in Western Europe at various capacities. It is one of the ways in which we equip our workers here to live missionally in [...]

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