During the first week of January 2013, The Navigators conducted a strategy meeting regarding developing a new ministry called
Workplace Ministry. I was invited to attend as a work place practitioner. On Wednesday of that week, our house sold with a full price offer. At the end of the week, I heard God's call to come join Him in this new initiative.
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One day when my wife was the wedding coordinator at our church, a young lady came into her office requesting a pastor to marry her and her fiance.
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John 6:44 says, "No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day."
What is our role in disciple-making if God is the one who does the work? In Acts 4:20 Peter and John said, "For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen and heard." Our role in disciple-making has to be speaking about what we have "seen and heard" God do in our lives and the lives of others.
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Metro staff in Compton, CA work with
Metro Community Development Corp (Metro CDC). Their mission is to be a part of God's work, employing whole-life discipleship, asset-based community development, and "business as mission" (to empower individuals, build families, and strengthen neighborhoods.) Here is just one story of how this is working.
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Watch a video about the impact of reading the Bible together.
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Recently, a student-reporter for VOICE (a community newspaper for NE Central Durham) spent time with our Urban Hope Navigator staff to understand how lives are being changed in the neighborhood they live and minister in - Walltown.
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Soul Priority (a work aligned with The Navigators in Chicago) organizes and facilitates local groups of business leaders who meet once a week for 45 minutes, at or near train stations leading into Chicago to discuss business challenges and best practices in the light of faith. Locations and times are chosen to make meeting as convenient as possible for those already having a busy schedule.
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Once a year we put together a retreat for Indians from India living in the USA. This year, 30 professionals, students and families met in Le Grange, Texas. The retreat was very cultural in its dress, food, topics, and even the language spoken. Most of the time, it's a mixed group of believers and non-believers. We have several new believers. The strength of the group is that we see individuals come to know Christ and then take the Gospel back home. One of these attendees is my friend N. He was born into a Hindu family with two younger brothers. They weren't overly religious only going to the temples for special events.
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Here is what made an impression on the Chicago Metro team from Movement Day: Why We Need to Focus on Cities; Gospel Movements - Misperceptions, Challenges, Values, and Ways Forward; City Transformation.
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Highland Park Community Outreach (HPCO) is a part of the Detroit Metro Mission. HPCO provides evangelistic and discipleship programs for inner city youth and children in a community known as Highland Park (a very impoverished suburb surrounded by the city of Detroit). Below is an update from our Day Camp this summer.
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