Marc's Short Messages

Steve came over for a spontaneous coffee. He just returned from a trip where he and his wife visited simple church planters in Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and France.

Over the past months I contributed a bit to the development process of the Overvecht Network, the community of Christians in our area. We now formulated a concise vision/mission, created an Overvecht Ning (a social network tool that combines the strength of personal profiles with a group blog, agenda and more), agreed to organize a kick-off day in September to focus on our common mission for the year, plan the monthly fellowship nights more intentionally, and open a common bank account to provide practical help to people who need it. On the picture below one of the regular Eat & Greet meetings for the neighborhood.

Father's day. David made a nice picture of me on his DSI. This afternoon we'll go to the playground and get some icecream.

Andrew reports from Portugal that he will take a longer time-out from blogging about the global emerging church, and instead plans to launch a new family blog to chronicle their journey through Europe, North Africa and Asia. He also posted a pic of Nuno and his family, whom I visited a few weeks ago in Lisbon. The picture is taken in front the tipi the Joneses carry around.

Went to an 'emerging church' meet-up where Boele Ytsma presented his book 'Off the map. Manifest of a passionate doubter' about faith crises. There were folks from a wide church spectrum: firmly orthodox to theologically liberal. I'm currently half-way his book and processing some of the deeper questions. I might write a bit more about it later.

Jesús called in this morning from Spain. He doublecharged my creditcard and will return the money. Is this a prophetic sign? ;-) This reminds me: today are the European Elections. A good time to call on Jesus too.

We had Steve & Marilyn and Alexander & Joanne over for fellowship and a SimpleChurch.eu team meeting. It was good to catch up and discuss the status of our project. Jonathan & Christine are now in Spain to 'spy the land' for their next simple church planting assignment.

A sunny day, a good book and a white beer. What more to wish?