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so long . . . farewell . . . auf weider–ummm . . . wiedersch . . . good-bye!
As you may have noticed, we have not done such a great job of keeping this blog up-to-date. We have decided that we are going to “retire” our “office blog”, a bit wiser for the experience. (we have learned, for example, that it’s always wise to ask “why?” before starting a new online endeavor!)
You can still keep in touch with us, however, in the following ways:
- sign up for email updates from CRWM
- read our missionaries’ blogs
- become a “fan” of Christian Reformed World Missions (but hey, you’re already a fan, right?) on Facebook (click the button below!)
- read our Summer Mission Program blog
. . . and stay tuned for more ways to connect with us!
Thoughts? Comments? Let us know what kinds of information you would be most interested in hearing! We want to hear from you!
And thanks for reading!
MK’s in the making!
Will God survive the Information Age
I read this post on Collide magazine’s blog. I encourage you to read their post for the lyrics of “Letter from a Concerned Follower” by David Bazan.
The song talks about our advancements with technology, and how we cannot keep up. The song poses the question of whether or not God can keep up with our evolution. Of course we assume these lyrics are meant somewhat as a parody, however, they do serve us in missions and as Christians a reminder.
One commenter on the post offers this insight, and some points to ponder, may this be our reminder:
“You raise a good point: would we be surprised to know that God already understands our technology and the technology we haven’t even invented yet? God doesn’t NEED us to translate him to a new generation.
He just wants us to be faithful to him in the midst of it.”
“home” missions versus “world” missions–so what’s the difference?
I think it was in 1947 that the CRC first made a distinction between “home” missions and “world” missions. Some denominations, including our older “sibling”, don’t distinguish between “home” and “world”.
So what do you think? is the distinction an important one? Would it be worth it for us to begin a discussion on how things might change as we look ahead to the next 150 years?
Read this article and then share your thoughts with us. We’d like to hear from you!
where we are today
So here are some scenes from the trenches . . . don’t we look like we’re having fun?
One hot day in July…
A travel story by Jessica Côté, CRWM Canada
A group of us were travelling from Burlington, Ontario to Grand Rapids for our annual Regional Missions Moblizer conference. It was July 9th, and it was HOT! We were travelling in more than 1 car. One group went on ahead, and I was in the second car, with Al Karsten (CRWM North American director) and Steve Kabetu from Race Relations.
We were sitting in one of our ‘older’ agency vehicles – the shiny, and well working new one had already left – and noticed the AC just wasn’t working. Now my car has no AC, my house has AC but barely used, so I didn’t think it was too big a deal. But the others, well, AC was a necessity. We looked around the parking lot, voila! another agency car was just sitting there, begging to be taken for a ride. We piled in. Note, this car was older than the first, but the AC worked! Yeah!
We’re on our way, travelling along. Al is driving, at a nice pace. We are cool and comfortable, and about 1/2 hour from the Canada-US border. Then it happened…
I was sitting in the front, and I noticed the dashboard lights flickering a little. Uh Oh. I glanced at Al, I could tell he noticed too… After some fiddling, the dash lights went off altogher. We started to slow down. I glanced over again at Al, and saw the speedometer read 160 km per hour! (For those who prefer miles, that’s a whopping 100 miles!) There is just no way that was possible, we were slowing down. An even bigger UH OH.
The car lost power, we had to pull over. At this point there wasn’t even enough juice for the signal lights, those poor other drivers who had no clue what we were doing…
So, there we were, the 3 of us stranded on the side of the highway. Did I mention it was hot!?! Have you ever sat next to a 4 lane highway when the temp was hovering around 100 Fahrenheit? HOT!
Okay, we will call for help. Al on his phone, Steve on his. (Yeah, I don’t own a cell phone, so I was staring at traffic, counting cars.) I was not sure who either of them were calling, so I asked, shall we call the other car, can come back to get us? You would never guess, but none of us even had the number of the other car’s driver!
After awhile, through calling the office, and other people, we finally reached the other car. They had been waiting for us at the Tim Horton’s in Sarnia. They came back to get us, but Al had to stay with the car. The tow truck had been called, and with impeccable timing, the tow truck and the other car showed up at the same time.
Steve and I piled in the nice cool and comfortable car, while Al climbed in with the tow truck driver. And on we went to Grand Rapids.
All of this happened and the excitement of the conference hadn’t even begun!
The car, by the way, was repaired, nothing significant, just alternator issues. Al made it to Grand Rapids just a few hours after we did. (And the AC was still working!)
Missions according to YouTube
One of our CRWM colleagues found this fantastic video on YouTube. How about this for a new missions slogan?
Aim Lower
Think Smaller
Give Up
Go have a cup of coffee
Watch the whole video to see why we love this.
