A dear friend of mine, Henry Oyer, sent this to me earlier in the week. Henry is a leader in our local church, with an incredible kingdom perspective. Henry is from Nairobi, Kenya. To read more about what’s happening in Kenya, click here.
Jambo!
Most of you are familiar with the situation on in Kenya. After [...]

Yesterday, a local Metro Detroit skateboard legend, Shaun Hover, stepped off of a plane from Los Angeles to Detroit. Under normal circumstances, this would not elicit a blog posting. Shaun, just two years removed from being a teen, recently returned from training as a missionary in China with Y-WAM. Youth With a Mission is one [...]

Last night, I sat on a panel with ministers and pastors from various evangelical denominations to discuss “Big Church/Small Church: A Conversation about Church Growth, Evangelism, and Church in the Age of Marketing.”
Once again, Calvin Moore has done an excellent job with putting together this series (House of God).
Some of the ministers represented pastor [...]

Tonight, Sara Barton baptized Priscilla– a member of our church family and student at Rochester College. I taught Priscilla and Sara Ageno (another Ugandan who’s a member of our church and student at RC) this semester and was constantly impressed with their intellect and contributions to the broader discussion of global faith.

Priscilla and the [...]

Several people at the Rochester Church have been working hard getting ready for our big December musical/play, Imagine Christmas (click here to read more about the production).
If you live in the Metro Detroit area, you should make plans now to attend this production beginning a week from Friday. If you want to see Patrick Mead [...]

Yesterday was a great day in the kingdom.
In a class I’m teaching at our local church, we discussed the life and contributions of Desmond Tutu and his work with the TRC in South Africa following the demise of apartheid.
Near the end, we told stories of needing forgiveness and stories about experiences in which we were [...]