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Good-Bye Tlalpan

Posted in Church - Theologizing, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Mexico, Tlalpan Church Plant, tagged , , , , , , , on Monday, June 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

What started out for Yuli and I as a grueling search for a church home that began in 2007 ended in warm communion. It’s been an immense pleasure to work with the Brednich family, the Henderson family, the Ortega family, the Calderón family, as well as the rest of the bunch this past year. [...]

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Tlalpan Update

Posted in Church - Theologizing, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Mexico, Tlalpan Church Plant, tagged , , on Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Greetings from Mexico City,
This is a follow up letter to my Feb. 9th blog post on the happenings in Mexico City and the church plant in Tlalpan, Mexico especially for the congregation La Casita in Searcy, AR and the congregation in Swift Current, Canada that so generously helped my wife and I with monetary contributions [...]

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Church Happenings in Tlalpan, Mexico City

Posted in Biblical Ethics, Church - Theologizing, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Devotional Thoughts & Bible Studies, Exodus, Mexico, Tlalpan Church Plant, tagged , , on Monday, February 9th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thus far into 2009 we can’t complain too much.  Though work is still slow, we’re as busy as ever.  My wife, Yuli, is now in her last semester of her master’s and will become increasingly preoccupied as she continues writing her thesis. And as soon as I finish this post I am going to start [...]

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Rituals and Their Inherent Ethical Imports

Posted in Biblical Ethics, Cross-Cultural Ministry, Mexico, Religion and Society, Social Justice, tagged , , , , , , on Monday, November 17th, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This weekend I had the privelage of attending a Catholic funeral service.  It made me recall a monograph that I recently read by Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion.
It’s amazing how the collective consciouness of our ancestors past influence us to the degree that it permeates our very being.  [...]

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Reflections on Mexican Culture

Posted in Cross-Cultural Ministry, Mexico, tagged , , , , , , , , , on Saturday, October 11th, 2008 | 2 Comments »

This shall be a short post reflecting upon some intrinsic qualities in Mexican culture (at least in Chilango culture- Chilango is a term that is used for people that are native to Mexico City), as I the observer see it. [The views expressed within this post are from a biased American expatriate living in [...]

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The Office

Posted in Cross-Cultural Ministry, Life, Mexico, tagged , , , , on Monday, October 6th, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

No, not the show- a counseling office.  My wife, Yuliana now has a new counseling office! The floors are redone, the walls have been repainted, and we moved in the furnishings yesterday. I am so proud of her. It really seems as if things are coming together. In just a few short months [...]

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