Monthly Archive: January 2007

post-conference decompression

post-conference decompression

The annual PCA English Ministry Pastors’ Conference ended today after a lavish lunch. The hospitality at Sarang Community Church surpasses lavishness! A note of welcome to the EM pastors I got to meet in person!! Was going to write up...

conference connections

conference connections

Here at the 8th annual English Ministry Pastors’ Conference in Anaheim, California until Wednesday noon. I’ll blog about it more at the L2 blog, but I will not be live-blogging out of respect for the conference organizers and participants. From...

life is a video game

life is a video game

Not a box of chocolates. Not a highway. This morning was a rapid pace of errands, energizing to me, overwhelming to some. So the day began with a brief planning session, but more things happened than anticipated. During one of...

growing in self-awareness

growing in self-awareness

Had a good week in Dallas. We embarked on our maiden voyage as a facilitation team and helped a group of churches explore new possibilities for doing recovery ministry. People who have worked a recovery program are very attractive to...

making conversations

making conversations

Learning the ways of a road warrior, as I’m in Dallas during my 6 weeks in a row of weekday travels. Traveling does have its own subculture that has its own habits and vibe, or lack thereof. I’m feeling it...

data at your fingertips

data at your fingertips

Steve Jobs and Apple’s “iPhone” is popularizing this kind of fingertip technology to the masses — it’s an LED computer screen that can recognize 2-finger gestures, akin to what the Tom Cruise character did in that Minority Report movie. Purely...

viability of meta-Asian churches

viability of meta-Asian churches

The following exploration is posted verbatim (and with permission) from Walton Yuen, a church planting pastor being sent out with blessings from Austin Chinese Church. Walton is off-the-charts in possessing a gift to cross cultures, and is applying his missionary...