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Celebrating the Spirit in Beijing
Friend and colleague from Tacoma, John Lewis, recently returned from Beijing where he is piloting CTM's Street Psalms Intensives. The cohort consists of 12 directors and staff from five Beijing non-profits working with vulnerable populations.
The Power of One Percent
One percent of people worldwide have a college degree. I don't know the stats for those with a doctoral degree, but I am guessing it is a mere fraction of one percent. Yikes!
From Gas to Diesel Part II
Last week, Joel Van Dyke shared a bit about the implications of a diesel-fueled missional community in Guatemala developed around the CTM intensives and sustained through continued theological reflection. Like Guatemala, Nairobi has been the site of countless sparks and doses of gasoline, rather than sustained diesel-like solutions. A friend of mine recently shared with me that there are 10,000 organizations that are connected with Kibera, Nairobi's largest informal settlement.
From Gas to Diesel
I had an incredible lunch yesterday with two members of our grassroots EdT (Estrategia de Transformacion) missional community here in Guatemala City. As I mentioned last week, the EdT is the name we use for the work of CTM in Latin America which is a strategic partnership with Christian Reformed World Missions. At lunch today I sat down with Tita Evertz who directs an amazing ministry in a place we affectionately call "La Gran Republica de La Limonada." La Limonada is purportedly the largest slum in Central America as a gorge that has become home for some 60,000 people.
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