Archive | May, 2009

Vision Trip – the final edition

Vision Trip to Rome and Marseille This past weekend I returned home here in Germany after Upstream’s vision trip. We had a great week. Learned a lot. It was really cool to be around a group of pastors and mission leaders who are serious about keeping “missions” in “missional“. It is encouraging to listen to [...]

Read More

In Rome

Our Upstream Collective vision trip began last night. We had our first gathering last night at a local café and got to know each other a bit. We come from diverse background but connected in that we all want to see the church involved in missions. Several conversations that I had revolved around how we [...]

Read More

Doing Business With Mission

This past week has been real exciting for me regarding an area that I am quite passionate about; “Doing Business with Mission”. First, I was extremely encouraged by some potential opportunities for people to either move to Bulgaria to work or even start a company or do an internship. Some of the business people there [...]

Read More

The Week

About Sofia, BulgariaWhat a city of opportunity. I hope some people will read this and begin to pray about getting involved here. I think something great is going to happen here spiritually. Here are three things that you can do: 1. If you would like to connect with a missionary in Sofia please let me [...]

Read More

Confused – Let your "Yes" be "No" and Your "No" be "Yes"

I told you yesterday that I am in Sofia, Bulgaria. It is my first visit here. I really like being here. Very interesting culture. I like the people here. The coffee is also good!. On the plane from Germany to Bulgaria I sat next to a guy who lives in Minnesota. He is from Bulgaria. [...]

Read More

Sofia, Bulgaria

I am in Sofia today. It is quite an interesting city.We are staying downtown. As we were walking around some last night I was able to see this statue of Sofia. There is one place in the city where you can literally see a Jewish Synagogue, a Mosque, an Orthodox church and a Roman Catholic [...]

Read More

The Chat Project in Spain

You have got to check out this really cool work that is going on in Spain. These are some really good friends that we have known for several years. Please remember them as they work there but also it is a great opportunity to connect with and work along side of them. The Chat Project [...]

Read More