What does it mean to "live" in your neighborhood? In this age of garage door openers, fences to separate houses and a hectic lifestyle how do we live in our neighborhoods in such a way that our neighbors get a complete picture of the good news of Jesus? Is it just a matter of getting them to our church so they can hear a message from the Bible? Is it bringing them to a crusade at a stadium event? These may be very good things if the timing and the setting is right.
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"If you go to the barber shop enough times, you are eventually going to get a haircut" - Brian, on whether it's possible to grow up in the inner city and not do drugs.
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Walter is the kind a guy you just love to be around. He has been a scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts for more than 20 years. He came to Christ at a Navigator conference years before that. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Edna and they have five sons who are Eagle Scouts.
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The coffee phenomenon of Starbucks had been born in Seattle. Arlyn and Hannah had watched, thinking it might be a new trend. They wanted to be on the ground floor of this new industry and so they moved to Omaha and started with a coffee kiosk inside the entrance of major shopping mall. By the mid 1990s Arlyn and Hannah’s new venture was a smashing success.
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A lot is happening in the Chicago Metro Mission. We are in a constant state of change and are learning to trust God every step of the way. Matt and Stacey joined our inner city team to serve in Albany Park, one of the most diverse neighborhoods on Chicago's north side. They are developing relationships with Muslim families and opening their home to share their faith.
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One opportunity that brings Sue repeated joy is investing in the spiritual well-being of a young woman named Deborah. Sue first met her in 2004 when she arrived in the U.S. with her family from Jos, Nigeria. At that time Deborah began attending high school not far from our home. Three years later when she enrolled in a university in Seattle, her parents returned to Nigeria. The Lord gave Sue a deep, heart desire to walk alongside Deborah on campus as long as she was interested in getting together.
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I am missing cartilage between the big toe and ball of my right foot. They did surgery to remove this weird - tennis induced - bone spur, only to discover: "The joint is shot." And unlike with knees, there's really no such thing as "toe replacement" surgery.
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Longfellow's epic poem,
The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, describes the various transportation options around Boston on the eve of a Revolution, specifically how many lanterns our spies would use to signify British troop movements. A few centuries later, we still try to navigate crazy traffic patterns to bring about our own Revolution: a movement of the Gospel! And we still seek to shine the light of the Kingdom in some dark corners of our city.
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On the first Saturday of each month a group of twenty friends from the greater Seattle area gather to share the things they are learning from the Bible about justice, poverty and corruption. The seeds for this learning community were sown in 2008 when Nigerian Navigator Okorie Kalu came to Seattle and facilitated a number of discussions on this topic.
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