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Memphis Connect: Lock Arms and Make a Difference

This coming weekend, March 12 – 13, more than 400 young adults from nine states just might raise the roof of the Orpheum in downtown Memphis, as The Rising kicks off a weekend of worship, teaching and service.
What’s The Rising? Their Web site describes it as “a two-day multicultural experience in the urban [...]

Memphis Connect: Beyond the Four Walls

I just posted this on Memphis Connect:
If you were asked to write your eulogy, how would it read?
For Kelli and Dr. Joe Carson, members of The Life Church of Memphis, that question launched a journey that led them from a comfortable suburban life to ministry in neighborhoods that people who look like them generally avoid.
The [...]

Go 2.0: New Tools for an Old, Old Story

I just finished my presentation at Connection2010 conference in Orlando, Florida. We had some great discussion and I was quite impressed with the audience and how open they are to using these tools for ministry.

Go 2.0: Social Media and the Church:
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Memphis Connect: Help Haiti

I just posted this on Memphis Connect:
The The United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) has mobilized global relief efforts in Haiti. UMCOR been recognized by Charity Navigator as a four-star organization. From their Web site:
UMCOR honors cultural differences. We deliver aid to people without regard to race, religion, politics, or gender. We seek input from [...]

If We Have Not Love …

I don’t usually write posts like this, and I’ll probably make some people mad, but … here goes.
These words of love and compassion from Shane Claiborne still ring in my ears as I grieve over the tragedy in Haiti.
“God intends for the church to be the hands and feet of Jesus in today’s world [...]