Retro: Hannah’s Bible Study
10 years ago today! Hannah was teaching her Friday night Bible study with the kids. This was just a few days before the church in Las Palmas first met!
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Transformational Biblical Meditation
Thanks so much to all those who prayed and helped and even donated to make the meditation seminar a success!
And yes, I’m very happy with how it turned out in general. Not that the day was without its challenges – as has been the case almost every Sunday lately.
This time it was an all-night party from Saturday to Sunday, somewhere nearby. And near enough that we didn’t get much sleep!
But what an encouragement to see people studying God’s Word, and to hear the thoughts that they drew from their study.
Everyone received a kit with some tools to help them get started (you can see some of them to the right. Thanks to Shari for helping me put these together!).
And we talked about many more tools and tips and tricks to make daily meditation worthwhile. Group activities, individual activities – lots packed into a short time!
Now that the seminar is done, I’m hoping it can be shared again. There are some things I would like to tweak – one thing being that we need a little more time to further explain some things and have more questions and answers. And of course if I do it in English, some of the tools I recommend would be different. Eventually I would like to have it online in both languages as well.
We started a temporary online group for those who took the seminar, so that we could continue to discuss and share our thoughts on Scripture. So that has been a blessing also! And it has helped to clarify a few things that I didn’t explain well the first time. So that will continue for about 3 months.
So thanks again! There are few things more wonderful than seeing God’s Word unleashed into our lives to do its work.
Right: Transformational Biblical Meditation – of course in Spanish it’s “MBT” – Meditación Bíblica Transformadora!
Preparing for Sunday’s Seminar
There are few things more important than unleashing the power of God’s Word in our lives. And so this Sunday we’re going to do something a little different – give a seminar during the service on Transformative Biblical Meditation.
I would appreciate your prayers as I prepare. I would have written this post a while ago – but I’m actually rather behind where I should be in my prep!
But before we called, God already answered. Some of the materials that I was waiting for finally arrived yesterday – the correct materials, in good condition. It would have been rather a problem if they hadn’t arrived on time!
And our printer – which by every right and normal sequence of events should no longer be working – and which is making odd noises and warning me with flashing lights – somehow is still going, and most of the printing for the seminar is complete.
Also, some of the materials were pretty expensive, but God has provided for that as well (thanks to those who gave specifically for this purpose!).
So – praise the Lord! But do pray for our time together, that this would be clear and practical, and that we would be motivated to meditate daily on God’s Word. Hopefully with some new tools to do so, and maybe even some future accountability.
I would like to eventually have this material available in English as well, so we’ll see how this first attempt goes!
Thanks for your prayers!
Retro: Finding Peace
10 years ago today! Shari was the speaker at a women’s conference, and her theme was “Finding Peace”. Here’s the poster:
And here’s Shari herself, actually teaching. You can click the image for a larger version, but Shari will still be very far away. 🙂
Retro: Building A Sanctuary
Ten years ago today! This wasn’t exactly an event, but an ongoing work. The building of the main sanctuary for the church in the community of Jesús María.
Ten years ago we were already using this “sanctuary” because we had an open-air baptism service right there! But it’s interesting to see how it was, knowing how much use that space has gotten since it’s been enclosed.
9/11 – 25 Years Later
It’s the day to share your memories, so here are mine. I was listening to the news first thing in the morning, and immediately got up to turn on the TV and fired up the computer.
I imagine most people knew that they were watching something that would truly affect the course of history. North America was about to become less free.
I went over to the computer and started printing out news articles. Because, after all, it would be interesting years later to see how things were at the time. Digital articles can be changed or removed – paper would keep the record the same. So I printed articles from various sources and various countries.
(Actually, I went looking for an article online that I had printed and couldn’t find a full copy anywhere, so I guess I’m glad I have it!)
I kept up the printing for about a month – all the way from “looks like some planes crashed” and “who in the world is Osama Bin Laden” to the US attacks in Afghanistan and the worldwide response in October.
Someone out there might be interested in seeing a couple of the articles from the 11th, so here’s a sample, in pdf format. First, a CNN article from 3:02pm (EDT), with a chronology of events up to that point. Then, a CBC article from that night.
- CNN “Chronology of Terror“ 3:02pm
- CBC “Thousands feared dead in day of terror” 9:45pm
- BBC – the pictures are from “In pictures: Terror strikes America” 12:39pm