Archive for June 2008

Formation | Youth

Staff cheers campers along their epic race

I’m not sure anyone saw the guy who won Spokane’s Bloomsday race quite as many times as I did. Standing on the corner of Broadway and Oak, cheering at the top of my lungs, I could see that tall Kenyan in the eyes of every boy and girl who looked up at me, heard my [...]

Congregational Development

Sometimes evangelism means just showing up

Sometimes evangelism means just showing up

I finished my first Bloomsday race ever a few weeks ago.  This was my 22nd Bloomsday in Spokane and I had never experienced this huge Spokane event – a 12k race that begins and ends downtown.
I had some very good reasons for not participating before.  For instance, it is a Sunday morning event and most [...]

Bishop's Notes

The mighty wind brings us a new day

It is daybreak and I am listening to lively tones as a brisk breeze blows through wind chimes outside my window.  The new day is alive; wind upon chimes announces it.
In this Pentecost season wind is a compelling subject.  Only a Sunday ago we celebrated how the Spirit came as the sound of a mighty [...]