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November 19, 2008

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I am in London. somehow. I was viewing a motorhome conversion yesterday which didnt work out and am about to get back up to Scotland. Had an enjoyable brekkie with Jonny Baker this morning at St John Bread and Wine and Juli was able to come also.


I really love London. We walked past the place where Salvation Army had their first indoor service in the 1800's.




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November 18, 2008

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Blind Beggar: NT Wright on the future of the church in Western society

Steve Knight on stopping Google becoming evil

David Brenham on Seminary emergency

Internet Monk presents Iain Murray




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November 16, 2008

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Provi is well!


Monday I called. She said she had had no headaches for three days & was home from the hospital!


Tuesday & Wednesday morning (Afternoon 4 her) we had great prayer time together and she told me she had a great testimony, that would be hard to tell me in English and it would make her cry! She told me she wants to cry when she thinks about my patience with her. But in her prayer it was clear she is actually thankful for her illness & part of that thankfulness is the assurance she feels of my love and patience with her.



I was inspired by reading “There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub” by Brian Hogan which is on sale at www.house2house.com. It’s a great & almost hilarious book of making disciples in “simple church” in Mongolia & reinforces that every great spiritual movement is founded in deep and fervent prayer. So I am praying fervently with my wife and other African leaders & sensing and hearing God pray through us & seeing answers to His & our cries.



Tuesday, as Provi & I prayed in tongues (the kind we don’t know) I saw a vision of God building buildings that I knew were our businesses. Then I saw a larger building that I knew was my (our) USA business. I knew he was building our business in many countries and strengthening my HVAC business to be like a strong tree of shelter for many people. That was after I knew in my Spirit that her praying in Kinyarwanda was partly for financial provision for me as I heard her repeat my name. She told me I was correct. Wed. morning, I sold an easy $7-850 profit job we finished Thursday with $80 added profit. You can pray with me that I’ll get more work in addition to the $1,200 in service work I just deposited.



I’ve been praying fervently for more income, feeling that it is God’s will for me to return to be with my wife in ministry for a 3-4 week trip this December. Before this weeks work I was a bit put back after learning I had to pay $2,300 in back taxes by Dec 2 to keep my house from being sold for taxes! But at least I’ve had money to send four computers for sale & one each for ministry to my wife and David Saku.



Burundi Parfait


Last Monday I had a good talk when calling Parfait (on the phone we paid for), hearing about the plans he & Bienvenu share to expand the ministry in a way that should not grow & die. He told me he had recommitted to sacrifice to make disciples and was going to a newly started “simple church” that very evening. He is a great trainer of leaders, a real evangelist, with a passion to teach in a way so that even my wife wanted me to pay for him to teach in DRCongo before my last trip.



But he is a true orphan, who has struggled for school fees to finish his secondary (high) school. He needs $60 for school fees (past due) & I don’t know why, but I feel that I should not send it. Perhaps God wants to bless one of you for helping him. He is very careful with money so you could send more than that or even less & I would make up the difference.



Martin & I both really enjoyed a “simple church” meeting in my accountant’s home, last night with a lot of prayer & accurate (I believe) prophecy. There were 3 Africans, 3 African Americans, & 7 white people with me. But you could count me with the Africans. I brought home-made bread & the main courses.



Martin is outside my window earning a little (really little) money, working on my 8 X 30′ deck/porch add on we need to finish so I can repair the house front to get it insured. When he went home it was ready for the joist hangers & joists, after which I already have all the framing for the 2nd story 8 X 30′ porch roof.



Pray for funds for Martin & I, our leaders, businesses, & divine wisdom for all of us. Remember you can buy most anything from Martin’s web-site www.fhtmus.com/mntende & increase his income, especially if you get a repeating service, like most of the major wireless & landline phone services, internet, broadband & even good vitamin/mineral supplements. I hate to see a multi-talented man with a heart to minister to the poor working for laborer wages for me, but it’s better than walking for lack of gas. We can travel to you to install the Personal Power Plant starting at about $13,000 for heating water & air to around $17,000 to also generate 10KW of electricity.



Naye Lia kwa Mapenzi na Furaha,…


or


He Who Weeps with Love & Joy, for the Beautiful African Bride of Christ


(Known in the past as Greg Cunningham)



Mail & donations to:


New Wave Ministry


29731 C. Rd. 28


Elkhart, IN  46517,  USA



www.newwaveministry.com


(+) 1 574 217 0552 for text messages or calls


(+) 1 574 679-0011 or 295 9696 Cunningham Air & Heat (working in IN, MI, & even ALL USA)


(+) 1 877 679-0011 Free from US phones for African visitors or if your free long-distance won’t work



Three New Waves:


Ø Passionate Love————–From & for Jesus


Ø Never-Ending Humility—To follow the King


Ø Total Sacrifice ————–Living out His Love & Humility













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Knock-knock.
“Who’s there?”
God.
“God who?”
That’s a pretty heavy question to answer, isn’t it? How would you describe God to someone who asked? Would you start with His love or would you focus more on His power? What about His wrath - how does that fit in? Join Ravi Zacharias as he explores the question on the hearts of all mankind - Who Are You God?

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November 15, 2008

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Why were Pentecostals were ignored in the early emerging church movement? My Assembly of God friend Earl has some answers in his article Can We Be Pentecostal and Emergent?


Reason Number One: "Origins: Early and influential EmChurch authors, webbers, and speakers were almost all from outside the P/C [Pentecostal] movement. Many were Reformed. Lots of the EmChurch plants were actually SBC [Southern Baptist Church] under the hood, including significant amounts of low profile capital investment."


Reason Number Six: 6. "No show: Pentecostals tend to be doers, while a lot of EmChurch influencers tend to be thinkers (this is my patronizing reductionism—sorry). Result: we simply didn’t show up for work when the EmChurch was gaining momentum, largely loosing our opportunity to have a voice in the dialogue." Link


I met Earl about 6 years ago in Seattle (I think) and he interviewed me for something he was working on. I try to keep up with his writings and journey as a leader in the Assembly of God. His article is good but comments elsewhere show that there is a lot of confusion still out there and there is still much work to do. I am also thankful to Phyllis Tickle for including the Vineyard and others in her synthesis of the key streams and influences in The Great Emergence.


Why am I mentioning this? Because I heard there is a group of Assembly of God leaders coming to my meetings today so I am reading up on what they might want to ask me.


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November 14, 2008

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In this episode, Joshua Case interviews Richard Cizik after his keynote speech at the Candler School


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Just heading off to the airport. I am going to Galway, Ireland for the weekend for 'Emerge' - the final installation in a series of conversations and trainings regarding the church emerging. And the speaker for the final session is . . . uhhh . . ME . . actually.


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Not sure if there are spaces available but it might be worth asking if you live in Ireland. For details on this Church of Ireland sponsored event which is called "Emerge Gatherings for Todays Leaders" talk to Shane Tucker who is throwing the party and tell him you subscribe to my blog.


I really love Ireland - the music, the laughter, the craic, the spirituality. On previous visits to Ireland I have taught on Celtic spirituality in Glendalough, emerging church and Celtic spirituality north of Belfast, and about whatever came into my head at a house church meeting in Dublin. No, actually, it was one of the stories of Jesus.


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The subject of Fresh Expressions came up yesterday in the classroom. Cliff is a Methodist college and the Methodists have joined hands with the Anglicans in this project. We talked about the full spectrum of emerging church, with Fresh Expressions being on the more structurally conservative side - with many Fresh Expressions still having paid positions and using church buildings for services. Although even in the Fresh Expressions world, there is a lot of variety as this presentation by Graham Cray at Wycliffe will show. HT: Shane Tucker


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November 13, 2008

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Hey - thanks to all the students for a fun time and for being so nice. One person said it was the best lecture EVER! Thanks. I will put that on my business card . . . if I ever get one.


Heres a link to some of the emerging church stuff i was talking about - and it has quite a number of links to other people I mentioned that have tried their best to summarize the emerging church. Some doing a much better job than me because I am quite subjective and get bored easily and always want to move on to the next thing. Sorry. What was I saying? Ron and I are debriefing right now at the Devonshire Arms and we just read an old blog post of mine that weaves the Princess Bride movie with a defense of postmodernism. Thanks for turning up and asking good questions. Love to keep in touch with you and hear what you get up to in your efforts to serve what God is doing in the emerging culture. Blessings.


One thing from the talks - The emerging church movement is a sustainable church movement and as the country enters recession, as budgets tighten, and as creativity is ignited, the emerging churches have already learned to start off without a budget, without buildings, without paid professionals and can offer the wider church the gift of their experience - which means that the mission of Christ can still go forward and even thrive, despite the economic woes around us.




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November 12, 2008

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i have been laboring over this blog for a while. let me start at the beginning. way back when i was about 16 years old my parents got divorced. it was devastating! i never saw my parents fight op...

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