This is a great blog.
Shapevine Missional Training And Learning Resources
Alan Hirsh has some incredible insight on how the word and idea of mission work is changing. I am also incredibly inspired by a very bright yet down to earth guy named Michael Frost who hails from Australia. I saw him present at a recent conference hosted by Vision Ministries, right here in Waterloo last weekend. I am looking forward to digging into more or their work. They redefine what it means to 'know God' by taking a literal look at who Jesus was. It is nothing less than mind-set shattering. They also suggest that perhaps the traditional ways the large churches have approached mission work is not how Jesus would have done it. True effective mission work means to become part of the folks you are serving, (not self righteously to tell them what to do, but to learn from them what they are doing already and move from there).
I am inspired by a newer entrepreneur in mission named Nigel Barham, who is the founder of MOVEIN, which has followers of Christ actual move in to some of Toronto's high needs neighborhoods and live as Jesus would have serve the community they become part of. (www.movein.to). pretty inspiring. You'll hear more about these people for sure.
Today I read a great summary of the main causes of the world's poorest countries continuing to be poor.It is part of the summary of the book, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It by Paul Collier brought to us by David Mays. It gives a good overview and was well worth the time it took to read.
There's lots going on.
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