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Hot Worship!

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Web sites names are great!  And blog names somewhat descriptive.  Try out “it’s a crazy old world” podcast with Greg DeLong, or “espirita“, Shauna Archer’s blog.  Randall Friesen has his “brown spot” blog.  You can find all sorts of pictures at “Flickr”  — one of those names that no one can spell, but everyone remembers!

This one sounds like an oxymoron.  Two words that somehow don’t seem to go together!

Hot Worship! 

Now, I’ve heard of inspiring worship, Christian worship, contemporary worship, traditional worship, blended worship and even worship from the heart.

But, where does “hot” worship originate from?

New blogger – new perspectives

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I love when someone you know takes up blogging.  One of the administrative assistants, Shauna Archer,  at our district office has just taken up blogging.  Got a great little quote off her!

Gandhi’s views on the greatest spiritual perils of our modern time are:

Wealth without Work
Pleasure without Conscience
Science without Humanity
Knowledge without Character
Politics without Principle
Commerce without Morality
Worship without Sacrifice

International Agreement Signed

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We, the congregation of Kindersley Alliance Church, signed an agreement with some international workers today. 

Sometimes you start off just doing what needs to be done.  And step by step you finally come to a high point (one of many to come).  You don’t realize the momentous occasion until it is past.  I have included some words I’m putting together as a press release to be available tomorrow.  How does this strike you??

International agreement signed

The Kindersley Alliance Church has entered into an agreement with two international workers in Japan. Don and Carol Love are currently working in Tokyo, assisting a local Christian church and providing helpful counsel in starting another church. The Love family will be arriving back in Canada this summer for a year’s home assignment. Don Love will complete a one year teaching assignment at the Alliance University College in Calgary before returning to Japan. Carol Love is currently working towards greater responsibility in the financial accounting for Alliance North American mission work in South East Asia.

The agreement was signed Sunday by Harvey Penner, Board chair for the Kindersley Alliance Church, and by Bruce Ellergodt, representative of the International missions department of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. Don and Carol Love have been in contact with the church and will append their signatures later this year when they return from Japan.

The Memorandum Of Understanding places Kindersley Alliance Church further towards innovative work in the area of Christian Ministry. The signed agreement is the first in the Canadian Midwest District and is expected to provide a model for other Alliance Churches across Canada.

Don and Carol Love will be working closely with the Kindersley Alliance Church. Strategies and goals will be shared with the church as they seek to personalize mission work for the congregation. The work of the Loves will be able to be tracked through regular reports of work done, budgets provided and personal communications. The church has pledged to provide financial, prayer and creative support to help further the work in Tokyo. One possibility is a short term project in the fall of 2007 to assist the Loves with their goals and strategies in Japan.

Considering the Lilies

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Easter is fast approaching.

In most media you will find little that relates to this season.  OK, you could hit the religion section of a paper, but that’s cheating!

I ask myself what constitutes front page reporting.  Or even second page.

From those questions I’m starting to delve into the news of the day.  Perhaps I need to see each page in a new light. 

What makes this news worth more than one day’s importance?  Where are people really affected?  Is this just anger for the moment or are there underlying causes?  How can I link the happenings of the day with the eternal?

Perhaps I’ll even come to an understanding of Easter in the light of this day – that would make it worth my while talking to an editor of our local newspaper.

Watch your local paper and see what headlines the next few weeks.  Let me know where you see a connection!