Archive | October, 2009

Culture

I know I am in the middle of my “Church Learning a Foreign Language” series. I have my next post ready for Monday and it is full of some great links and ideas from a person who is a language coach for overseas workers here in Europe. Learning language is important. However, another aspect of [...]

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Start Up Ideas for Language Learning, part one

Here are some ideas about a few ways your church can get started learning a foreign language. Grammar and vocabulary are important. I love being able to say this. I hear this all of the time from my German teacher. First up… If you have an extra room in your church why not set up [...]

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TCFL – Teaching Churches Foreign Languages

The Idea I mentioned before about a conversation that I had with a church leader about his desire to see his church learn another language. This thought has grabbed my attention so I thought what would I do if I pastored in the states again. Perhaps if any church needing a pastor reads my blog [...]

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language learning

I heard today in a seminar that 56 percent of all Europeans can converse in two languages.11 % can converse in three languages. This is really amazing to me. It was a struggle to learn Spanish for me 8 years ago. Now I am trying to learn German but finding it very difficult. I do [...]

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Working in Europe

As you may know I am involved in a couple of missional networks. This week I have been working quite a bit on the Skybridge Community. In reading a post by Grady Bauer on MissionalSpace it reminded me again why we need networks of marketplace people and study abroad students, artists, etc.. living out their [...]

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Remembering

Do you ever have a verse that just keeps coming to your mind? I was in a place not too long ago where I read the below verses and I cannot get them out of my mind. In fact I wrote about it last week. 8First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all [...]

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Europe Link

I get the privilege to travel to a lot of places. I do enjoy seeing new places. I enjoy having cups of coffee in various parts of the world. I like studying the new cultures. I like meeting and talking to people from these places. It is really more than just my enjoyment.I go to [...]

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