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Go on, have a pint with the Lord
Beer isn't the only thing on tap at the local pub. It may be an unorthodox place for a theology group, but pastors who've tried it say a little libation goes a long way in having honest-to-God discussions on faith.
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Fall Welcome Email
I hope everyone is having a great week with the back to school thing and increased volume in commuter traffic... everybody rested, excited and buzzing with a new passion for productivity... marvellous. J Anyway, I just wanted to make sure everyone got a reminder/invite for church this Sunday. It’s always awesome when everyone gathers back together in the fall. I’m really excited about it... can’t wait to have us all back and worshipping under the same roof on Sunday!! Please invite your friends.
What’s up this Fall at OVV? (Here’s a list of just a few things that are happening!)
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Kantel's Africa Report (August '09)
Iris Pemba has hosted hundreds of visitors over the past three months—in addition to more than a hundred Missions School students and 150 Mozambican student pastors in our Bible School. There have been many, many evangelistic outreaches into the bush...with much fervent worship in response to miracles and salvations...and great expectancy for more...!
Now most of the visitors and Missions School students are back home and the student pastors have returned to their isolated bush churches. And we missionaries, who worked so hard to facilitate all the activities of the past months, are left to wonder about the lasting fruit of all this fervency. Was it just an experience...to be remembered, but not repeated? Or have lives been changed, vision transformed, for time and eternity?!
The giant mango trees in this region may be a living parable in response to this question. During the season of abundant rain, their trunks and branches absorb the water needed for the dry months ahead. They actually produce their succulent fruit during the driest part of the year and the mango harvest in November is a harbinger of the rains which follow in December. Right now, when everything else is parched and brown, the mango trees have suddenly exploded with tiny new fruit the size of peas: an abundance of fruitfulness and the promise of a rich harvest to come.
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Kantel's Africa Report (July '09)
We frequently remind ourselves that our ministry goal is not just to alleviate suffering and hardship...nor is it even just Christian conversion. While each of these is a step in the right direction, either one without the other is incomplete and only a partial response to the gospel. Our ministry goal is transformation: spiritual, material, and societal. Only this full-orbed transformation can release Jeremiah 29:11 “hope and a future” into a life or a community as the Kingdom of God begins to break through in its fullness.
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Finding Favour with God and Man
I spent most of the 70’s going to universities, colleges and seminaries, several of which were in the United States. One fall, after working for a summer in Toronto, I had decided not to continue before I could make some more money. Then, at the last moment, I sensed a stirring from the Lord and decided to return to school in Colorado if all of my “fleeces” fell into place.
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