In an article in the September 11, 2006 issue of ChristianityToday.com, author Brian McLaren talks about the hope our DR pastors are spreading down here and how amazing some of their ministries are. We work with these men/women on a daily basis, so we were pretty excited about the fact that they were mentioned in this way.
(Mark/I were not here yet when Brian visited, but it doesn't lessen the fact that this is cool... and we've heard that he's coming back sometime soon...)
Leader's Insight: Unterror Cells
While terror cells plot violence to spread fear, faith cells plot goodness to spread hope.
by Brian McLaren, Leadership columnist
I recently sat in the private meeting room of a restaurant in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, with twenty-some pastors—women, men, Pentecostals, evangelicals, from both rural and urban settings.
Some had seminary degrees; most barely finished high school. What they had in common was a passionate commitment to misión integral. It is mission that integrates "spiritual" concerns with "physical" or "social" ones, needs of the soul and body, reconciliation with God and with one another.
My hosts had taken me to a beautiful array of churches. One reaches out to glue-sniffing street kids. One has developed an amazing healthcare system for 18,000 rural people who previously had no healthcare at all.... (for more, click below and scroll down just a bit to access this story).
http://www.christianitytoday.com/leaders/
1 comment:
Hey! What happened to the picture of your soccer team that was the latest posting yesterday? That was a great picture, and now it has disappeared. :-( Thank you so much, Stephanie, for the related information that you include in your blogs.
Where are the chickens? :-)
Judi/Mom
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