Intern Orientation week in Miami has been fun and exciting but also tiring for the whole team. We have learned the ends and outs of TML’s ministry-all the paperwork that goes into organizing camp to making sure we have enough equipment such as tables and chairs for the kids to sit on at lunch. We … Continue reading
Category Archives: Student.Go
Serving in Perry County
Well I have made it to Perry County! I have always considered myself a city girl but also a country girl at heart. After coming to Perry County I have redefined my idea of what country really is and that is for sure. Perry County is in the Black Belt of Alabama about 90 miles … Continue reading
The Sacred Shakers
I was recently introduced to this relatively new band from the greater Boston area specializing in old-time Gospel music in the tradition of Hank Williams Sr., The Carter Family, and others. Check out their website for more info, or their MySpace page to sneak a listen. Their self-titled CD is available on most major online venders such as Amazon and iTunes, including subscription … Continue reading
There’s no such thing as “the concerns of young people”
At least not right now. Not like there usually is.
Churches are always looking for ways to “bridge the generation gap.” Katie McCown, quoted in the recent post entitled “Engaging Young Baptists,” offers very insightful reflections alongside some helpful suggestions on how to do just that. In her second point she encourages congregations not to “pretend that their aren’t generational differences,” but instead to acknowledge these differences and find ways to transcend them through “relationships.”
I could not agree more that relationships are fundamental towards creating any community, especially one that is intergenerational. But the problem has always been that people of different generations do not have much in common, or at least that has been the assumption. What on earth would a group of twenty-somethings and a group of fifty or sixty- somethings have to talk about?
Enter our current financial crisis. Continue reading
Poverty knows no race
It’s not the absence of ice in my drink; or the two flushers on the toilet (one for big, one for small). It’s not the single napkin I receive in a restaurant. It’s not even the obligatory coffee and the roundabout approach to business. The differences don’t surprise me most. It’s the similarities. Continue reading
‘My comfort zones were stretched in many ways’
The following reflection was written by Missy Ward, who spent the summer serving in Fremont, Calif., through CBF’s Student.Go program. Missy worked alongside CBF field personnel Lita and Rick Sample, ministering to Afghan refugees. I served for seven weeks in Fremont, CA working with newly arrived refugee families from Afghanistan during the summer of 2008. My primary … Continue reading
If not me, then who?
If not me, then who? This was the question I couldn’t seem to shake as we pulled away from Greek, a refugee resettlement camp in Eastern Uganda. This village is the new home for 2,000 Ugandans displaced by civil war, a war far less familiar than the recent conflict in Northern Uganda. The Karamojong … Continue reading
The end of a special summer…
Team Tag has made it back home, safe and sound in the United States. It has been an incredible summer experience. Continue reading
Team TAG’s final Week in Slovakia
Our latest location was a fifteen to twenty minutes from the nearest bus stop because no city bus wants to service this Roma community. After the walk from the bus stop, you enter a long metal corridor and through two gates. A third gate, a guard, and a guard dog watch the entrance to the community … Continue reading
Week Two and Three
Team Tag completed our first week of camp in HUngary and have now begun the Slovakia phase of our trip. Our objective is to work with the Roma people and share the love of Jesus with them. Continue reading