mission trips

Sharon Bell sends off a missive to TNGOP chair Robin Smith protesting the comments of Tennessee Federation of Republican Women President, Shirley Ward who said recently, “Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.”

Yesterday, I posted a link to the Greeneville Sun where Shirley Ward, President of the TN.

[edit: i couldn't take it anymore. i had to post it. yeah it's earlier than i said. i was just so excited!]

i really thought about titling this with the word “boobies” because statistics have shown that is the word that gets people to read your blog.

but anyway.

This is a quote from Serving with Eyes Wide Open:

i don't know about you, but i started two or three years ago to stop calling our youth short term mission trips.. "mission trips".. the idea that being missional is not a trip but a lifestyle. so we call them, or try to start the shift of calling them, mission experiences. it may be silly, but i like the idea of experiencing an intense life of missions for a short term where we experience relationship, work, outreach, pushing our own limits..

Several people have asked me about the recent turmoil in Kenya, and it indeed is in some of the very areas where I worked on short-term mission trips in 2004, 2005 and 2006. There has been violence...

Well, December has come and gone, and it occurred to me the other day that we’d not had the traditional Murfreesboro District United Methodist layspeakers’ and lay leaders’ banquet. For some reason, I had it in my head that the banquet was held during the holidays, although I see from my blog post last year that it was in February.

I recently took my two youngest kids to the Huntville, AL U. S. Space and Science Center. Wow what a wonderful time we had. The have some really awesome exhibits of the different space suits that astronauts wore over the years/mission trips. I would love to tell you everything they have there but there is so much also I would want everyone to experience it for themselves...