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Church-Planting Vision Takes Shape in Twin Cities |
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Sunday, November 01 2009 |
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 George Stagg has a vision to see transformed lives through the development of a new church in the Uptown area of Minneapolis, Minn.
The twin cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul have a combined population of about 3.2 million residents—the 16th largest metro area in the nation. Stagg’s vision is to see tens of thousands of those individuals involved in a multi-site church family that combines lives transformed by the power of Christ with the strength of long-term relationships that demonstrate love, forgiveness, the bearing of burdens, and the building up of one another in all areas of life.
Bubbling with youthful enthusiasm as he describes his vision, Stagg, 36, is nursing a triple espresso at Barbette’s Café in the trendy Lake Calhoun/Uptown area of Minneapolis where he and his family began a church-planting effort in 2007.
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Missions Reinvented: Business as Mission Re-invigorates Christian Workers |
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Sunday, November 01 2009 |
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For Stuart Hake, his personal venture into missions has been mind-bending.
“I’ve come to recognize that much of our thinking about mission has been influenced by Greek thinking—that spiritual is superior to physical,” he says. “The problem with that is it is not biblical. We base so much of what we do on an unbiblical concept.”
 Stuart and Debbie Hake
“I’m recognizing I have only so many years left in my life where I can invest my life for the kingdom,” says Stuart.
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Front Seat to History Provides Lessons in Leadership |
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Sunday, November 01 2009 |
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 Linda Hall poses with Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Mass) when she worked in his office in the 1970s.
As a young adult, I was privileged to be a spectator of textbook history, seeing up-close-and-personal a member of one of America’s most prominent, and certainly most inspirational and influential, families. The backdrop was an internship and then official employment in the Washington, D.C., office of Senator Edward M. (Ted) Kennedy (D-Mass) during a two-year time period, 1973-1975. It was a national, and even a global, position, as the senator’s leadership in the United States Senate grew in scope.
His recent death caused me to review that time in my personal history and God’s hand in it. He gave me what I believed to be the desires of my heart, and they came up short. Even so, I will always treasure the time I spent in Washington, D.C., the small part I played in Senator Kennedy’s office, and the people I met there, including the Senator himself.
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Summer Fun: Nic@Nite Focuses on Gospel Message |
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Sunday, November 01 2009 |
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By Natalie Rummel
 Water games, skits, relay races, and prizes – that’s the recipe for summer fun at the Palmyra (Pa.) Grace Brethren Church.
Its real name is Nic@Nite, a vacation Bible school alternative that has drawn nearly 200 kids each Wednesday night in June to the Lebanon County church. The program is the church’s way of reaching kids age 4 through 6th grade, according to Nic@Nite’s co-director Gerry Cassel.
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