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Lima and Prague

April 17, 2011

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Lima and Prague

I have been following online the jet set trip this week to Prague.  I have been super impressed with their conversations. I cannot wait to start hearing about Budapest where they are now. I pulled this one off of twitter. “Part of our problem is that we go into worlds in which we’re sent with [...]

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Planting the Gospel in a Post Christian Culture

April 13, 2011

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I am following the jet set Prague and Budapest this week from South America. I read this tweet (#JS2011on twitter) this morning from the www.theupstreamcollective.org jet set trip to Prague. Michael Frost said – “You will not change a post-Christian world with more missionaries & ch leaders. It requires artists, teachers, doctors,etc…” We have lived [...]

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Jet Set Commentary

April 5, 2011

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Jet Set Commentary

The Upstream Collective is leading another of our Jet Set vision trips to Prague, Czech Republic, and Budapest, Hungary, April 12-20. This trip will feature Michael Frost, author of “Jesus the Fool” and “Exiles,” and co-author (with Alan Hirsch) of “The Shaping of Things to Come” and “reJesus.” We do several of these trips each [...]

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Vision Trips

November 15, 2010

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A few weeks ago I was able to go to a city for the first time. Saw some wonderful things. Met some outstanding people. I bought my Rick Steves book and he helped me out a lot. However, the best thing was talking to a person who lives there.  We had a ton of meetings [...]

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Key Business as Mission Components

June 15, 2010

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I have the opportunity to talk with quite a few of our Skybridge Community members. We are indeed a community in various stages of our journey here in Europe. • We are pastors looking at this as a viable way to send workers to the field. • We are marketplace workers looking for a job [...]

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A BIG reason why

June 7, 2010

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I must admit one of my favorite videos from our trip is this one. Why? This is one of the BIG reasons why I do what I do at Upstream Collective. If I had one “DO OVER” in my church planting time in the states during the 90s it would be that I did not [...]

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Next Steps

June 4, 2010

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I am often asked “what are our next steps in global missions as a church”? Before I give a quick easy as 1,2,3 answer (smile) take a look at this short video. One of the first things that needs to happen as a church is to figure out “to whom is God sending you?” This [...]

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