Matt Jeffreys is the pastor of Ridgeline Community Church in Temecula, California. He’s a young guy—hip, smart, and passionate about his ministry. I was having lunch with him at this meeting in Oklahoma City last week and he was telling me the story of what happened to him at the Sonic drive-in that just opened [...]
Archive for October, 2009
Fast Lane at the Drive-In
Posted in Nation, tagged California, Matt Jeffreys, Oklahoma, pastor, Ridgeline Community Church, Shazam, Temecula on October 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Is A Child’s Life Worth Three Dollars?
Posted in Church, The Missional Church, World, tagged $3, Africa, child, Ghana, malaria, mosquito net, T. Thomas on October 29, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I mentioned in worship last Sunday that a $6 mosquito net will keep an average of two children in Africa from dying of malaria. That means that $3 could save the life of a single child. The question is: is it worth it? T. Thomas, who has served as a foreign missionary with both the Southern Baptist Convention [...]
How to Stay Warm on a Cold Night
Posted in Church, Community, Homelessness, etc., tagged 1 Kings 1, Abishag, blanket, David, girl, Israel, night, pretty, Shunnamite, warm on October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Sometimes everything just comes together. It did this morning at community missions, down on the basement level of our building. I try to go down there every Wednesday morning to greet our homeless neighbors and make them feel welcome. I usually share a thought and say a prayer. I don’t always know what my “thought” [...]
What Happened in Oklahoma City
Posted in The Missional Church, tagged autonomous, Baptists, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, missions, Oklahoma City, Southern Baptist Convention, website on October 26, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I went to Oklahoma City last week mostly because of the guest list. The invitation seemed deliberately vague: a group of some fifty Baptist ministers and missionaries were going to be talking about how to do missions in the 21st century. There were some hints about “finding new ways” that suggested the old ways were no [...]
I Get to Go to Work
Posted in Church, Community on October 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In these difficult economic times I’m trying hard not to say, “I have to go to work.” I’m trying to say, “I get to go to work.” And on a day like this one I’m especially grateful that I get to go to work in a place that looks like this. I took this picture [...]
