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Thursday, January 7, 2010

More From Urbana ... Li Qian

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Thursday, December 31, 2009

What Am I Learning at Urbana?

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Here's my friend Ethan who came down to Urbana with me. Pray for us as we wrap up the convention today. We'll be partying it up tonight right up to our midnight communion service.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Dude! Take a hammer to your evil I-Pod!


Shane Claiborne was the other session speaker last night at Urbana. If you aren't familiar with Shane...dude...you've gotta give him a listen. He's got a message about God's love, living simply and doing mission that is a breath of fresh air. His message:

If you can't give your stuff away to live in greater simplicity, then you don't own your stuff... your stuff owns you and limits your freedom to serve Jesus. "If you can't part with your i-pod...maybe the roles are reversed and the i-pod is really the owner and you are in its possession!

Ouch. I just got my first I-pod this Christmas, Shane, are you sure about that?

Check out Shane's ministry The Simple Way, and go find a hammer!

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Tuesday, December 29, 2009

How Do You Find a Spiritual Hero?


"Joy and suffering are completely compatible. Joy and bitterness are not. When you do God's will, his way, you will never lack his provision."

It's a blast worshipping God in the house with 17,000 other people! Even better is sitting next to Ethan, one of our new Christian Chinese scholars singing his lungs out to Jesus with the rest. I love watching this guy grow! I got to see Ethan baptized just a few weeks ago at Christ Community. Tonight I got to sit next to him as we listened to Patrick Fung. Patrick tells his story about leaving his dreams for practicing medicine in home country of China, to be a medical missionary in Pakistan. He and his wife (both physicians) decided to save several years of their earnings and gave it to their parents as a way of honoring them.

Ethan is a medical researcher here from China working on post-doctoral research at UNMC. I can tell by sitting next to him, that Patrick's message of willingness to risk and bold faith in God's provision is striking a chord in Ethan. Ethan is getting to see a real giant of faith in Patrick Fung - someone who shares his culture and medical background. Someone who took courageous steps to give his medicine to the mission of Jesus. Pray for Ethan. Pray for Li Qian. Pray for Phil and Kaytie and Lydia and Mackinzie. God is stirring the hearts of these talented, young lives. Pray that God will fill them with vision and passion for his kingdom. Pray that this week will be a pivot point in the direction of their lives.

Check out Patrick Fung's bio on the Urbana web-site.

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Monday, December 28, 2009

Urbana 2009!


Just landed at the end of a mile-long registration line and thought I'd swat out a quick blog-post. 7 of us from Christ Community Church will be experiencing InterVarsity's Triennial missions convention called Urbana.

Check out this link to see what Urbana is all about. 18,000 delegates spending a week together in scripture, worship and the world mission of the church. I'll try to post things as we go through the week. Watch for media tabs on the Urbana page and try to catch some of the sessions on-line. I'll send you a link for that if I find it.

I've got to get to the main session here in a minute!

PS - I'm also having a great time connecting with my staff comrades of 19 years! Familiar faces everywhere!

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