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Challenges Leading a Missional Community

April 11, 2011

by: Solomon Wang Leading a missional community is not an easy task, as anyone who has done so can attest to. The word “community” seems like an easy concept: build friendships with people. Modeling it in the missional aspect is not easy. When you have people who love Jesus gathering together, it is certainly easy to [...]

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A Story of Salvation: Hanna Paper

March 21, 2011

by: Hunter Lawrence Hanna Paper started coming to my missional community last semester with her roommate. Our M/C meets in a “small group room” at the Scottish Rite Dormitory. The neat thing about leading a M/C at an all-girls dorm is the fact that everyone is already “doing life together” and community comes pretty easily. [...]

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DR Mission Trip Update #4

January 13, 2011

Hi friends and family! Today is the year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti. Last year, right after the earthquake hit, I sat in the Stone’s First Tuesday Service dedicated to prayer for the Haitian people. I remember the photos of the devastation of the country and the people. Today, a year later, we stand on the same island. [...]

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DR Mission Trip Update #3

January 11, 2011

We currently have a team of 15 college students serving in the Dominican Republic, below is an update written by one of the team members. Today in the Dominican Republic, our team had the opportunity to experience something very different from the American culture… aka “the norm”. Not only was this day shocking, exhausting, and [...]

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DR Mission Trip Update #1

January 10, 2011

We currently have a team of 15 college students serving in the Dominican Republic, below is an update written by one of the team members. Hola amigos! Today we finally arrived to the Dominican Republic, after much anticipation. Yesterday was filled with fun as our team bonded through packing, Wal-Mart runs, and some sweet worship [...]

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DR Mission Trip Update #2

January 10, 2011

We currently have a team of 15 college students serving in the Dominican Republic, below is an update written by one of the team members. So today I learned how to play dodgeball. Well, I’ve played it before but it took about 10 minutes of being pegged with multiple soccer balls to understand what the [...]

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Leading a Missional Community: Texas State

December 1, 2010

by Scott Corbin If I told you that this semester was a breeze, I’d be lying. If I told you that there were days where I wanted to do anything else but meet with my missional community, or days where I felt like “this really isn’t worth it”, then yea, we’d start getting to the [...]

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Sermon Reflection: History of Redemption

November 29, 2010

by Jared Pelley The history of redemption is recorded in sixty-six books written over 1500 years in 3 languages by 40 shepherds, priests, fishermen, philosophers, physicians, and kings. All of them, by the influence of the Holy Spirit, tell one story. The power of the Bible is awe-inspiring. Ronnie’s sermon, every word of which came [...]

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Sermon Reflection: Loving God Above All Things

November 22, 2010

by: Paul Lee What are you looking forward to? For most college students that’s graduation, even if you’re a freshmen. Or maybe it’s winter break where you get to go home and spend time with the family. However for some, the reality is that graduation is looming, but there’s no job. And for others, going [...]

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Multiplication

November 19, 2010

by: Scott Frazier When the word ‘multiplication’ comes up some of you immediately recall awful memories of being drilled with multiplication tables in 3rd grade, while others of you duck out of anything regarding math (as I do) and say, “I’m a Liberal Arts major it doesn’t apply to me.” However, have you ever thought [...]

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