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January 11, 2019Hospitality Is Key to Ministry
We want to be like Jesus, sharing God’s goodness, grace, and love with others, but no ministry on earth compares to Jesus’ ability to minister with people who are hurting, broken, or lost. Jesus calmed storms, gave sight to people who were blind, and raised the dead. What can we do?
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November 2, 2018Fundraising: Ministry, or a Dirty Word?
Fundraising doesn’t always have a stellar reputation. At best, some view it as an unpleasant means to get to the “real” spiritual work. At worst, it’s a “necessary evil.”
But Henri Nouwen writes in A Spirituality of Fundraising that “fundraising is, first and foremost, a form of ministry.”
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November 1, 2018Have We Lost the Art of Conversation?
Recently the city of Grand Rapids, Michigan, started a free bus service that runs nearly from my front door straight to downtown. Now all of my excuses for not using public transportation are gone (now it is convenient, consistent, and free!), so I have been making use of it as much as possible. As I have ridden, I have tried to use it as an opportunity to notice the people around me and be open to conversation.
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October 10, 2018The Unspoken Challenges Female Church Planters Face
“I think there’s a lot of pressure to be really good as a female pastor—not just an OK pastor,” said Sam DeJong McCarron, who works as a ministry vocational consultant for the CRC’s Pastor Church Resources. “You have to be the best of the best because you’re a woman and a female pastor in a denomination that holds two views on it.”
Sam and her husband, Nate, are ordained ministers of the Word in the CRC. They were recruited to plant a church in Denver, Colorado, in 2009—but they could not find a CRC church right away that would ordain both of them.
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September 14, 2018A Fair for the Community in Port St. Lucie
Reading over grant applications from CRC church planters is always a joy for those of us on the church planting team here at Resonate Global Mission—it is inspiring to see how these church planters are leading their congregations to love God and love their neighbors in creative and practical ways. To share a glimpse of how one church plant is doing this and to perhaps spark your own creativity, let me tell you about a recent event hosted by Iglesia Sunlight Español, a Resonate partner church plant in Port St. Lucie, Florida.
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September 7, 2018Prayer Is Key to Mission
As I sat watching sheets of wind-driven rain pound against the side of my house in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it seemed obvious: the Timothy Leadership Training (TLT) event that we’d organized and promoted for months was a wash.
Literally.
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March 21, 2018Why I Am Bivocational (BIVO)
Allen Kleine Deters is CRC Pastor of The Bridge, a new missional community plant that Resonate Global Mission partners with in Niagara Falls, ON. He originally wrote this reflection on the Network.
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December 13, 2017The Posture of Mutual Care and Accountability
Editor's Note: In forming Resonate Global Mission, Resonate staff developed six core postures that are essential for effective mission work in and through the Christian Reformed Church. While the postures can stand alone, we’ve asked staff around the globe to give them some substance by sharing examples from their own experiences on the mission field.
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October 19, 2017The Posture of Peacemaking
Editor’s Note: In forming Resonate Global Mission, Resonate staff developed six core postures that are essential for effective mission work in and through the Christian Reformed Church. While the postures can stand alone, we’ve asked staff around the globe to give them some substance by sharing examples from their own experiences on the mission field.
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