this one goes out to my wife. woop woop.
i love you rosemary.
a wider view
a closer look
pics from the safeway parking lot today that’s right by our house. the one they call “unsafeway.” crazy.
a great post by my friend John White about how Eugene Peterson helped him see the difference between “make it happen” ministry and recognizing where God’s at work and joining Him in it.
tom selleck +a waterfall +a sandwich = one of the greatest combos ever.
see more at: selleckwaterfallsandwich:
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Hey everybody here’s a video update about my upcoming trip to Kenya.
The dates: June 22-July 5th
The dealio: I’m helping teach and train leaders at an Appleseed Ministry Conference (appleseedministry.com) in Kitale, Kenya for leaders from Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi who will all be coming in for the conference as well as leaders from Kenya where we focus on:
Equipping indigenous church planters in the developing world to multiply disciples and simple churches among the lost and broken.
Preparing these same leaders to empower the poor using strategic development projects that come from listening to God and seeing Him use the gifts God has placed in these communities of Jesus.
The prayer requests:
- For God to be preparing the leaders from the 5 countries from Eastern Africa who will be coming to the conference to understand and learn how to apply these principles of highly reproducible, disciple making organic church planting.
- That God would be raising up spiritual dads and moms in villages, towns and cities all over Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi who want to incarnate the gospel in their hometowns and see a movement of vibrant families of Jesus within easy access both geographically and culturally of everyone in these countries and beyond.
- That God would prepare Roger and Brooks (the founders of Appleseed Ministry), Dawson and Elizabeth (Amazing Kenyan Church Planters and also our hosts for the conference), and me for what He would want to say through us.
- That God would be glorified by His name being exalted and a disciple making movement starting among the pooerest of the poor.
- For God’s continued provision this trip. I’ve seen about $1000 come in and I’m still about $2500 shy right now but I know He’s going to provide.
- That I will take in all that God wants to teach and show me
- For peace at home for Rose and the Kiddos while I’m gone.
“this goes out to all you minivan families.”
dang, we roll as a double minivan fam in true gangsta fashion. ah yeah!
please join me in praying for noah and kate cremisino, our friends who were house church leaders here in denver that we had the privilege of commissioning/sending to christchurch, nz to help network and plant organic churches, be missionaries to the largest city on the south island, and work with ywam by hosting an outreach house for them in the city.
here’s their latest update video. you can get more info about what they are doing, how to pray for them and how to support them at noahandkate.com
So my friend John White had his iphone handy and recorded this awesome story of what took place when Nick responded to the call to come and be prayed for during a denver house church all-gathering we had this past weekend (friday & saturday, may 21st and 22nd). Crystal felt the Lord wanted her to pray for Nick’s knee to be healed. Awesome stuff ensued.
One of the coolest things was that both of these two were skeptical and yet God broke through this skepticism and increased all of our faith in His mighty power.
Soli Deo Gloria.
Sorry about the sound quality. Turn up your speakers.
This weekend we had a city-wide gathering called Hearts of Fire. Here is one of the special stories from the event. (I was standing just to the left of the screen :)
The Chicken Coop Chronicles
I asked my wife to share her latest installment of “The Chicken Coop Chronicles” from her blog (6starrs.blogspot.com) over here. Over at her blog she shares about our life together as a family of 6 trying to live well as missionaries in the inner city of Denver, as a home educating family, as friends and neighbors and as fledgling urban farmers. She’s a great photographer and blogger and the best wife ever.
Anyway, here’s her latest on us getting our fine feathered ladies into their coop. Thanks Rose.
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Last Sunday Desi and Micah went to Home Depot to get locks and shingles…they got an amazing deal on these shingles…$4! They finished up with the locks and roof.
On Monday Emma and I went to get the chickens big water and feed containers…they made the port a crib seem so small! I love these pics :) Hi Daisy!
Charlotte, you are too close to the lens.
Yesterday we all worked together for “The BIG Backyard Clean Up”. Our yard has been incredibly messy and really more of a construction zone than anything else. So, we cleaned it all up and had dinner on our picnic table before moving the girls to their coop.
The completed coop!
Our tidy backyard!
Our natural roost…those are large roots dug up from the maple tree that was in our front yard.
Adding the pine bedding…
The finished hen house complete with the new feeder :) That bright spot is the sunlight.
We walked each chicken out and put them in the run. This is pretty Sarah.
The girls hung out and happily explored their new digs. Micah helped them get into the hen house when it got dark. They did just fine their first night and seem quite happy to be outdoors!
Thanks again to Micah for your invaluable help with this whole process! ~Rose
