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[photopress:jim_henderson_head_color.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Flawed Evangelism Attempts
Jim Henderson shares his own embarrassing attempts to convert others and a road forward.

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Who’s Lost Us or Them?
Jim Henderson wonders whether Christians have drifted off course from their primary purpose and reason.

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The People Formerly Known as Lost
Jim Henderson explores the power of words and takes another look at Jesus’ three parables of lost things found in Luke 15.

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The Great Connection
Jim Henderson reviews Jesus’ life and how he chose to intentionally connect with others.

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Reflections on the Missing
Jim Henderson wonder about whether love has something to do with it … our perception of non-Christians that is.

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Hiding Out in the Open

[photopress:swetman_hiding_out.jpg,thumb,alignleft]Rose Madrid-Swetman is a missional pastor living in Seattle, Washington — one of the least churched (Christian) areas in the USA. Rose shares her story about how their faith community has taken a new approach to viewing their community and their resources including their recently renovated facility.

See articles by Rose:

Small Church–Big Impact
First They Fast–Then They Follow

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Micro Loans and Evangelism

By Dave Richards

[photopress:dave_web_color.jpg,thumb,alignright]Dave is cofounder and a board member of Off The Map. Dave is a Christian and high-tech business leader. He’s been a worship leader, small group leader, led multiple youth groups and assisted in planting a church in the 90s. On the business side, Dave has led many high-performance software teams and marketing efforts. Dave and his wife Sharon are the proud parents of three children and live in Seattle.

Bangladesh, one of the world’s most populous (140 million people) nations, is the international poster child for poverty and natural disasters. In fact many leaders have given up hope that Bangladesh will ever amount to anything more than a black hole for foreign aid. Read the rest of this entry »