Journeyman

After writing a guest blog post about Wycliffe a couple of days ago, I’ve updated this site with a section About Wycliffe.

Early this week I made a comment on The Church of Jesus Christ blog. Joel, the guy the runs it, then asked me to write something about Wycliffe and the work we do. My short post quickly became a brain dump, which now exist as four separate posts.
You can read them here,

Wycliffe: Bible translation statistics
Wycliffe: [...]

Before you start wondering how driving more slowley is going to save your local church from extinction, I should point out that I’m actually refering to two rather excellent blog posts by other writers that I thought I should at least share with you. Entertainment for a Friday and all that.
Post one, with the cartoon [...]

What would you do to get out of going to church. One kid in Utah took ‘getting away’ to the extreme.
Kevin D. Hendricks from Church Marketing Sucks posts the following.

For a church in Utah it was apparently bad enough to prompt a 7-year-old to steal the family car and drive himself home. The boy told [...]

I always think that male bloggers have it so good because they have their meals cooked for them, etc.
From the comments at Octomusings
Oh, how I wish this was true.

I have a friend who has just started taken up a physiotherapy role… in Uganda! Zillah has been blogging about her experiences of working in a very different environment to what she knew in the UK. But, now she needs our help, or at least our ideas. As she says,
In a sort of continuation from [...]

Website of the day…
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found on a modestly sized oceanographic research vessel. [Read more]
From: Southern Fried Science
… it’s brilliant!!! Niche maybe, but brilliant all the same.

I need to share a few of the things I’ve been reading on the blogosphere recently. Hope you enjoy this mix.

A film to make you smile.

HT Eric Bryant

Organised thinking
Tips on organising your thinking, self motivation and following up on ideas from Paul Merril based upon the book, Hot Wiring Your Creative Process, by Curt Cloniger.
One [...]

Friends are great, wonderful, encouraging people. I’m blessed to have so many of them, I love them all.
Blogging has brought a new dimension to my friendships. People that I have not yet met, and yet I seem to know so well because I’ve listened to their thoughts and arguments, rants and praises; and despite the [...]

I’ve just read the following…
Where are the missionary practitioners who will lead the church into a direct, responsible, and missiologically sound participation in missions? [read the whole post here]
I’m going to be pondering this for a while, and the rest of Ernest Goodman’s post, but without the expectation of coming to any sort of conclusion.
HT: [...]