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Thursday, September 17, 2009
Verses I am thinking about today from One Year Bible (Sept 17)
Isaiah 25:6-8 On this mountain the Lord Almighty will prepare a feast of rich food for all peoples, a banquet of aged wine-
the best of meats and the finest wines, On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.Isaiah 26:3 He will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.Isaiah 26:16 Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.Galatians 3: 21-22 Is the Law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.Psalm 61:1 Hear my cry, O God: listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to a rock that is higher than I.Proverbs 23:18 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
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the best of meats and the finest wines, On this mountain he will destroy the shroud that enfolds all peoples, the sheet that covers all nations; he will swallow up death forever. The Sovereign Lord will wipe away the tears from all faces; he will remove the disgrace of his people from all the earth. The LORD has spoken.Isaiah 26:3 He will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.Isaiah 26:16 Lord, they came to you in their distress; when you disciplined them, they could barely whisper a prayer.Galatians 3: 21-22 Is the Law, therefore, opposed to the promises of God? Absolutely not! For if a law had been given that could impart life, then righteousness would certainly have come by the law. But the scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin, so that what was promised, being given through faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who believe.Psalm 61:1 Hear my cry, O God: listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you,
I call as my heart grows faint; lead me to a rock that is higher than I.Proverbs 23:18 There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.
Mark
Monday, September 14, 2009
Breaking News From Paul Mitton: Pastor Ed Nelson Is With The Lord
Dear Converge Rocky Mountain Family,
Former RMBC Executive Minister Pastor Ed Nelson went to be with the Lord last Saturday night. Pastor Ed served in many capacities throughout the Baptist General Conference and left a legacy of changed lives through passionate evangelism and changed communities through the new congregations he helped to start.
A service for Pastor Ed will be held 11:00 AM, Friday, September 18, 2009, at The Rock of Southwest,10393 W. Alamo Pl., Littleton.
See www.therockofsouthwest.com/common/map-directions.php for directions.
A reception will follow. A family graveside service and interment will be at Evergreen Memorial Park separately. To see his obituary or to write a condolence to the family go to www.EvergreenMemorialPark.com/obits.html
I will be saying a few words at the service. If Pastor Ed has touched your life or your church in a special way, please email me your remembrances. Keep it to a paragraph or two and I will try to include as many of your thoughts as I can. Be in prayer for Pastor Ed's wife Dorothy and his extended family.
Churches together....transforming lives and communities!
Paul
Rev. Paul Mitton
Executive Minister
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Highlands Ranch, CO 80129
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Saturday, September 12, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
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To live is Christ, to die is gain.
Forwarding a 09.11 note: A Grace "Funny"
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From: "Mikey's Funnies"Date: September 11, 2009 2:30:03 AM MDTTo: mkraakevikSubject: 09.11: A Grace "Funny"Reply-To: reply@MikeysFunnies.comMikey's Funnies is generously hosted by Agathon Group, website development and hosting with a ministry heart:fromMIKEY=============================="Never forget."Amen.Mikeytoday'sFUNNY==========================="GROUND ZERO...GROUND GRACE!"by Peggie C. Bohanon"The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runneth into it, and is safe (Proverbs 18:10).""Ground Zero"--a phrase that's become part of our late-breaking vocabulary, and the only way we can find words to describe the horrible place of destruction in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Our hearts broke as we watched workers sifting through the rubble looking for more survivors and more miracles in the awful mess...brought about by the deliberate madness of man...and underwritten by the prince of the underworld, Satan himself!But a remarkable thing happened at Ground Zero...volunteer workers, churches, charitable organizations suddenly appeared on the scene, asking, "Can we help?" "What can we do?" Little girls made cookies for the volunteers...people in the neighborhood brought coffee to the workers, churches set up food and clothing centers...we saw GRACE at Ground Zero, underwritten by the Prince of Heaven, Jesus Christ Himself!And Ground Grace comes to YOU today, in the midst of YOUR Ground Zero...for Jesus Himself has said, "Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world." So is THIS the end of the world? Only God knows--but we need not worry for our lives are in His hands--He is still Lord; He still reigns, EVEN at Ground Zero.Fighting fear, anxiety, uneasiness, anger, frustration...all the negatives of the enemy that pull you down, all the way down, to Ground Zero?? Then it's time to LOOK UP--for wherever there's a Ground Zero that ABASES, there's a Ground Grace that ABOUNDS. The God of all Grace is with you when you're at your lowest point--He wants to lift you up, to help you see what's going on from HIS perspective. It's all under His watchful eye--and His unlimited, all-empowering, never-failing, immeasurable GRACE is yours today! ...and that's just a thought or two from my heart to yours!Copyright 2001 by Peggie Bohanon, Springfield, MO. All rights reserved. Not to be copied without permission.Link to above devotional:today'sTHOT============================Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.=======================================PASS IT ON!Yeah, you can send this Funny to anybody you want. And, if you're REAL nice, you'll tell them where you got it! www.mikeysFunnies.com===============================MIKEY'S FUNNIES is a clean humor email list, sent every weekday and is generously hosted by Agathon Group, website development and hosting with a ministry heart:
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Thursday, September 10, 2009
RT @NewsHour: New Census Data Reveals U.S. Poverty Rising While Family Incomes Fall http://twurl.nl/w64k81
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Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Rockies score two in bottom of ninth to win. Now 20 games over .500 for first time in club history
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009
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Dr. Bruce Demarest, Dr. Bill Klien, and Dr. Gordon Lewis
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Friday, September 04, 2009
Please pray for the friend of the Bowmans, who have a friend who had a major anurism while hunt outside of Colo Springs
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Thursday, September 03, 2009
Fw: Jeffco Schools - President's Address to Students
This is getting crazy.
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Wednesday, September 02, 2009
The September I always wanted...
I say it every fall. I love September. The air is crisp. The school year begins anew. Football. New friends, new programs, new activities, new small groups. LOVE it. I love beginnings. I lay out the calendar (you may want to grab yours at this point). 30 days in Sept. Some are full. Friday is the Ben Speckman golf fund raiser (raisng money for Converge Rocky Mountain). Some days are wide open (like Monday, Sept 14) - [call me, we will set up lunch]. Thursdays night gets crossed out - Evergreen night with Ma and Pa (Annika and Britta piano lessons included). Fridays get crossed out (Dave Ramsey Financial Peace University). Tuesdays get crossed out (youth group). Wednesdays get crossed out (Heidi -worship team/ girls kids program at the Rock). Annika's Westernaires horse club. (5) (19). Sundays in Sept: Labor day (6), All church picnic (13), Small group kick off (20). The the meetings get put in. Our next Church Lead Team Mtg is Sept 9th. Staff meeting every Friday at 12pm. SPECIAL EVENTS: Bethel University Picnic (5), Kopp Fundraiser (12), Tara Borman Fund Raiser Concert 5-7pm (19) Summerset (Sept 18-20), Bethel Homecoming (25-27)....You know what...I think I used to like Sept. more when it was less complicated. But then again, I guess Sept. has always been like this. You hit it running, and hang on for dear life.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Broncos are awful, could be a long season. But CO Rapids won today - I luv futbol
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Saturday, August 29, 2009
Friday, August 28, 2009
Rereading 7 Habits of Effective People
William George Jordan Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil-the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be. (Pg 20) Steven Covey Principles are the territory. Values are maps. The more closely our maps or paradigms are aligned with these principles or natural laws, the more accurate and functional they will be. Correct maps will infinitely impact our perrsonal and interpersonal efferctiveness...(Pg35) The way we see the problem is the problem (pg 40) Albert Einstein The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them (pg 42). T.S. Elliot We must not cease from exploration and the end of all our explorating will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time (pg 44)
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
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Sunday, August 23, 2009
Top row!!! We can see Heaven from here
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Saturday, August 22, 2009
Time to buy donuts and coffee for the stony creek painters-showing our local school some love today
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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Check out this chpt on YouVersion.com
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Total personal incomes of Cities in the US in 2008 (from Denver Business Journal)
The following are the 72 markets with 2008 TPI of more than $25 billion:
- New York City, $1.031 trillion
- Los Angeles, $552.5 billion
- Chicago, $433.8 billion
- Washington, $302.8 billion
- Houston, $276.4 billion
- Philadelphia, $274.1 billion
- Dallas-Fort Worth, $267.1 billion
- San Francisco-Oakland, $263.9 billion
- Boston, $248.9 billion
- Miami-Fort Lauderdale, $236.7 billion
- Atlanta, $202.4 billion
- Detroit, $176.1 billion
- Seattle, $168.8 billion
- Minneapolis-St. Paul, $154.6 billion
- Phoenix, $148.5 billion
- San Diego, $136.5 billion
- Baltimore, $126.2 billion
- Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., $119.4 billion
- Denver, $119.1 billion
- St. Louis, $116.4 billion
- San Jose, $107.0 billion
- Tampa-St. Petersburg, $100.9 billion
- Pittsburgh, $100.7 billion
- Portland, Ore., $87.1 billion
- Cincinnati, $83.5 billion
- Cleveland, $83.2 billion
- Sacramento, $82.3 billion
- Kansas City, $80.8 billion
- Bridgeport-Stamford, Conn., $73.6 billion
- Las Vegas, $73.3 billion
- Orlando, $71.4 billion
- San Antonio, $70.8 billion
- Columbus, $67.6 billion
- Indianapolis, $67.4 billion
- Milwaukee, $66.7 billion
- Charlotte, $66.3 billion
- Providence, $64.7 billion
- Virginia Beach-Norfolk, $63.2 billion
- Austin, $62.5 billion
- Nashville, $61.0 billion
- Hartford, $58.5 billion
- Jacksonville, $51.6 billion
- Richmond, $50.3 billion
- New Orleans, $50.1 billion
- Oklahoma City, $49.4 billion
- Memphis, $48.6 billion
- Louisville, $47.4 billion
- Birmingham, $45.1 billion
- Raleigh, $42.7 billion
- Buffalo, $40.9 billion
- Salt Lake City, $40.5 billion
- Tulsa, $39.7 billion
- Rochester, N.Y., $39.5 billion
- Honolulu, $39.4 billion
- New Haven, Conn., $38.3 billion
- Oxnard-Thousand Oaks, Calif., $36.4 billion
- Omaha, $35.8 billion
- Albany, $34.9 billion
- Worcester, Mass., $33.5 billion
- Bradenton-Sarasota, Fla., $33.4 billion
- Tucson, $33.0 billion
- Allentown-Bethlehem, Pa., $30.6 billion
- Dayton, $29.0 billion
- Albuquerque, $29.0 billion
- Baton Rouge, La., $27.6 billion
- Grand Rapids, $26.9 billion
- Akron, Ohio, $26.2 billion
- Poughkeepsie, N.Y., $26.1 billion
- Fresno, Calif., $26.0 billion
- Little Rock, Ark., $25.8 billion
- Springfield, Mass., $25.5 billion
- Columbia, S.C., $25.2 billion
Mark
Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday after sunday
Church was good yesterday, so many people back - lots of conversation afterwards. Next week we hope to be over 100 people again for the first time since June. We had Soul Fuel lead our worship
time. They did well. Busy week ahead - youth group on Tuesday, worship team practice on Wed. And painting Stony Creek elementary on SAT Morning (8-12).
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time. They did well. Busy week ahead - youth group on Tuesday, worship team practice on Wed. And painting Stony Creek elementary on SAT Morning (8-12).
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
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Monday, August 10, 2009
Fw: Rockies vs Cubs
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Monday after Sunday
Boulder County Courthouse "Just want everyone to know we are having computer problems. We will get you guys out of here as soon as we can" says the court reporter. I am sitting in court with a friend who was driving in Boulder without a license. His dad just said to me "Life is much easier if you stay out of trouble." --- I am thinking about church yesterday. Really enjoying preaching through Proverbs. Yesterday we looked at the value of wisdom, and how we must dig for it, like silver in a mine. Momentum Momentum is starting to build towards Fall. We have rock solid leadership. Our new small groups will start in a month. Backpack trip Our youth group just got back from a two day backpack trip. 15 people were on the trip. Highlight included a capture the flag game, an evening worship service and a Sunday morning communion time. Rumor has it Ryan was attacked by a wolverine (or a least a vicious rock). Prayer for the complexities and pains of life. Praying for a teen who just found out she is pregnant. Praying for a neighborhood family who just lost their 7 old son (died from wounds sustained in a fire he started. Praying for a local family - the dad killed his wife then shot himself. Praying for a friend recovering from cancer surgery. Praying for a broken marriage and for those who are single and wrestle with various relationship issues. Oh and one more thing-too sensitive to post here. Wow God - this world has a lot of complexity and pain. We trust that one day, You will bring comfort and justice. Thanks for reading this. Please add these prayer requests to your list today. --- I am reading my wife's book that she wrote this year. Its very good. It is teen fiction. You should ask her about it. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Saturday, August 08, 2009
CS Lewis quote "the divine mind
The order of the Divine mind, embodied in the Divine Law, is beautiful. What should man do but try to reproduce it, as far as possible, in his daily life?
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Join our Proverbs challenge - one chapter a day - today is chpt 4
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Monday, August 03, 2009
Celebrating 18 years with Heidi. Leaving chico hot springs pool.
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Norseman quartet families are gathering at the Johnstad B and B in Emigrant, MT
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Sunday, August 02, 2009
Sitting in DIA, flight delayed an hour...blue skies, beautiful outside, DELAY???
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Saturday, August 01, 2009
Friday, July 31, 2009
GodSightings: The Plight of Homeless Christians, by EC Scott: 7/31/09
The following email came to my inbox today.I really like it, and the fact that it is written by my friend Eugene Scott is an added bonus. Wise words from a good friend.mark
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From: Eugene C. Scott
To: Mark Kraakevik
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 10:41:16 AM
Subject: GodSightings: The Plight of Homeless Christians, by EC Scott: 7/31/09
The Plight of Homeless Christians
By Eugene C. Scott
In 1977 I was homeless. So, disgusted with city-life, I high-tailed it for the mountains and pitched my tiny orange tent in Cottonwood Lake Campground. I dropped out and spent my days hiking, trout fishing, and reading Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings.” Waking as the tent heated from the morning sun and falling asleep with a billion stars shining as my nightlight was freedom defined.
Occasionally my camp-mate and I drove his Plymouth Belvedere to my cousin’s house on Trout Creek. There we sat in stiff wooden chairs around her kitchen table and ate and talked and laughed with incense burning and Pink Floyd playing in the background. Inside her walls lived a different kind of freedom: the freedom of belonging. Her screen door slammed shut on a fearsome loneliness. The summer wore on. We visited my cousin’s home, our home away from homelessness, more frequently.
I was a young, immature, follower of Christ in 1977. I knew less than nothing about God and life. I had no idea that what we were doing around my cousin’s kitchen table was oddly church-like. We sang no hymns, passed no offering plate, and followed no liturgy. We broke bread; we gave thanks; we encouraged one another; we loved one another. We had a sacred fellowship. And God was there, though not invoked, yet gentle, invisible, insistent. God surfaced in nearly every conversation, hung around in every corner.
Everyone needs a place to belong: a community to talk, laugh, cry, and encounter God with.
In 2008 I became a homeless Christian, without a gathered Christian community to encounter God with. At first, like in the summer of 1977, the freedom was exhilarating. Did you know people sleep in, read the comics, and freely hang out in coffee shops on Sunday mornings? Suddenly Sundays became Sabbath, relaxed and unpressurized.
Eventually though, reading the funnies, or even the Bible, in my boxers lost its appeal. I missed the intellectual, social, and spiritual stimulation present in a gathered Christian community. I yearned for encountering God in music, sermons, ancient and modern rites, and most of all, other people. I did not miss, however, the politics, the griping, or the massive weight of trying to speak honestly for God.
While homeless, my spiritual life resembled a slowly receding tide, leaving bleached, empty shells of faith on the beach. My faith became a distant, powerless belief system rather than a vibrant way of life. Now months later, surrounded by a grace-filled Christian community, God is rebuilding my soul.
I am not the only one to experience spiritual homelessness. Disgusted with the real and perceived hypocrisy, ritual, dogma, judgementalism, and general irrelevance of what we now call church, many followers of Christ have dropped out and pitched a tent in their own backyards hoping for the best. Researchers claim only about 20% of Americans attend church. While three quarters of American adults call themselves Christian.
A sizable majority of Christians are homeless, without a gathered community to belong to. You may be one.
The problem is God designed life to be lived with-in a caring, serving, worshiping community called church. Unlike bowling, Christianity is not an individualistic sport. God most often shows up in the spaces (interactions) between people and the more distant those spaces the smaller the interaction and the easier it is to lose sight of God. God loves us as individuals but calls us to live in community. “Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging one another, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on . . . .” Hebrews 10:24-25, The Message.
This question is not whether one “can be a Christian while never ‘going’ to church.” Church is a family, if often a dysfunctional one. You may go to your family’s house, but you don’t “go to” family. You are family. You are the church. In Christ we have been adopted and are a part of a family whether we are estranged—homeless—or not. And just as being estranged from our biological families has far-reaching effects, so too, does being estranged from our spiritual families. The plight of homeless Christians is serious and debilitating to us as individuals and to us as the church.
Often it is not laziness or apostasy that keeps us homeless. Very real fear, pain, and past disappointments keep many of us from belonging to a faith family. Jesus knows our pain and estrangement. The Prodigal Son is not just a story about forgiveness, but also about coming home to God and family, pouty older brother and all. Reconnecting is a fearful prospect, I know. But know also that God is waiting for your return and will kill the fatted calf when you do. We might even put on some Pink Floyd.
GodSightings are an uncommon view of God from a common point of view written by Dr. Eugene C. Scott. Reach him at ecscott@tnc3.org. If you wish to be discontinued from this list, please reply with Unsubscribe in the subject line.
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Thursday, July 30, 2009
Status?? A study in introspection - what an extrovert does when left alone
My dashboardMy Bible: I have read it three days in a row!My forecast here in Denver: high of 70, currently 55 and rainyMy physical condition: no substantial physical exercise is quite awhile. Current routine is a 1/2 mile walk each morning.My emotional condition: (see physical condition) currently a bit bumpy, just saw that the dog dish still has food in it (Bailey died 16 days ago on the highway in Montana). I am homesick for Brasil, and I am starting to really miss my family. My outlook: Postive. This fall is going to be a great one at the EDGE. As a whole, we are falling deeper in love with Jesus, our community is gelling, we have the right peole in leadership, and the possibility exists for significant impact on our community.My current email count: 6686 messages in yahoo, 5642 in aol/mac/edgeco My voice mails: 3My kids: A and B are taking tennis lessons this week. Shopping for a new puppyMy cell phone: blackberry is present and currently syncing with my mac computer (miracle). Because I was in Brazil, I have enough minutes left to talk for several days straight and still not use all of July's minutes.My filing: (the box) the pile on my kitchen table of things to file is currently ten inches highMy facebook: 2045 friends (clear indication that God created me with a desire to connect with people - my hell is a deserted Island)My twitter: I follow 738 people, 675 people follow me, and I have posted 2,166 status updatesEdge Offerings in church last week: 2973.00 - we made budget in July! Thank you God.
The bizarre part is God is intimately connected with all of the above details. They all matter, and yet his love for me is not based on any of this indicators.
The bizarre part is God is intimately connected with all of the above details. They all matter, and yet his love for me is not based on any of this indicators.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
The movie Watchmen
Rented it from Redbox last night.
Definitely a good superhero movie.
Like all good superhero movies it wrestles with identity, and purpose, and justice and the frailty of human live.
I didn't like the existentialism of the film. It kept saying, "If God does exist, he must not care very much about humans."
The quote that has me thinking is a dialogue between two heroes. One says "What happened to the American Dream?" and the other one says, "It came true!" That is crazy. So much of the American dream was about consumerism, and now we have it all, but are not happy.
Hmmmm.....
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Friday, July 17, 2009
Tonight is the last street preaching night - I am going with Alex's group
of 8776 West Geddes Place, Littleton, CO 80128
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Thursday, July 16, 2009
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Thursday morning in Brasil: Finished breakfast, first teacher is up, I am next - please pray that God would use me
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Lunch on Monday in Brasil
via youtube.com
This is a ten minute video of me saying hello to a lot of people. In the middle we play the classic cup game, you may want to fast forward, and in the end we are playing dancing to someone singing a rap.
Video from last nights street presentation - Dance Troop
via youtube.com
This was the group that performed before I got up to speak. They are from the local church.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Video report from this afternoon's home visits.
David talks to 9 people about Jesus at a picnic table
Sunday Morning
It is 11:20AM Sunday morning here.
Just finished preaching on Genesis Chpt. 1. Focused on how God, the creator of the universe, created each of us with purpose. It was well received. I am posting on youtube.com/kraakerjack a short video from earlier this morning to show you what the worship its like. Its very hard to capture on video what is actually happening. God's presence was here.
Now they are going over how to make a home visit. This afternoon we will make our first home visits. This is all cold call visits, unlike the rest of the week, which will be follow up visits to those who attend the Jesus film/street preaching/patomime events in the evening.
To the parents: Alex and Ian are doing great. Both have already found friends and are injoying learning phrases in Portuguese.
Prayer request:
1) Pray for us as we make these visits this afternoon that they are well recieved and that people decide to come to the event in the park this evening.
2) Pray for our health, we are all tired. People were up till 1pm last night, and up at the school moving around at 6am this morning. We were to sleep from 11 to 7, but not many got to actually do that.
3) Pray for the new people here at Promife, the atmosphere of the week is shaped by how well the new students understand what we are doing. There are 116 people here, and about 40 -50 of them are new this year.
Gotta run,
Mark
Just finished preaching on Genesis Chpt. 1. Focused on how God, the creator of the universe, created each of us with purpose. It was well received. I am posting on youtube.com/kraakerjack a short video from earlier this morning to show you what the worship its like. Its very hard to capture on video what is actually happening. God's presence was here.
Now they are going over how to make a home visit. This afternoon we will make our first home visits. This is all cold call visits, unlike the rest of the week, which will be follow up visits to those who attend the Jesus film/street preaching/patomime events in the evening.
To the parents: Alex and Ian are doing great. Both have already found friends and are injoying learning phrases in Portuguese.
Prayer request:
1) Pray for us as we make these visits this afternoon that they are well recieved and that people decide to come to the event in the park this evening.
2) Pray for our health, we are all tired. People were up till 1pm last night, and up at the school moving around at 6am this morning. We were to sleep from 11 to 7, but not many got to actually do that.
3) Pray for the new people here at Promife, the atmosphere of the week is shaped by how well the new students understand what we are doing. There are 116 people here, and about 40 -50 of them are new this year.
Gotta run,
Mark
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
On the ground in Houston. Taxi'ed past our plane to Sao Paulo - its huge
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On the Continental flight listening to Rap music. Getting in touch with youth culture: Afroman?
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Thursday, July 09, 2009
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
I really feel blessed to have such great leaders at the EDGE. Monthly mtg tonight- prayer, buildings, bucks and big goals for the future and more prayer
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The Kraakevik Summer chaos continues: on a Frontier prop plane from Bozeman to Den. Said good bye to family-never easy
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Tuesday, July 07, 2009
Final push from Billings to Bozeman
We left Minnesota at 4am and we are now in our last two hours. Drive through North Dakota was uneventfully. Two barf bags, one spilled chocolate shake, the endless search for good coffee and a Redbox video (the only redbox we found was busted). Text message conversation with Community life pastor Grant as we drover through the middle NOWHERE. Surreal experience. Brazil Trip update: we leave on Friday. We got 500 more dollars towards the trip on Sunday. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
Monday, July 06, 2009
Half way through the vacation: Jefson Reunion was awesome
It was so great to spend the weekend with my family in Forest City, Iowa. I did not take many pictures. But others did and hopefully I will be able to forward some of those on to you soon. I got the honor of preaching yesterday at our family gathering. It was such a blast. We met in an old Lutheran church that they have moved onto the Heritage Park.
Sounds like church on Sunday went well. We raised another 500 towards the trip, so we are closing in on our financial goals. Grant preached, and I heard is was good. I hope someone podcaste the sermon, although it does not look like it has been posted yet.
Today we begin the trek to Montana.
Sounds like church on Sunday went well. We raised another 500 towards the trip, so we are closing in on our financial goals. Grant preached, and I heard is was good. I hope someone podcaste the sermon, although it does not look like it has been posted yet.
Today we begin the trek to Montana.
Saturday, July 04, 2009
5 great from last years Brazil trip
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cavalo
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the end group shot
four on a wall promife
Mark Kraakevik
The EDGE Colorado - live the message
720-308-4051
We all have demons, don't face your alone***
"Faith is our relationship to and with God. And it is given life and meaning in our relationship to and with each other."
Mark Kraakevik
The EDGE Colorado - Live The Message
720-308-4051
www.theedgecolorado.org
To live is Christ, to die is gain.
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Friday, July 03, 2009
Brazil Trip Info
Hey friends,
Our missions team is leaving for Brazil in one week. This time the team includes two teens, one seminary student and Pastor Mark. They leave on July 10th for a 12 day trip. They will travel to Sao Paulo, Bra, which is the third largest city in the world, and then go about 2 hours north of that city to the city of Ribeirao Preto. There they will join about 100 Brazilian teens in a week long outreach event. They will spend our mornings studying the Bible, and the teaching of Jesus, and then in the afternoon, some will make door to door visits while others will lead an afternoon kids club. In the evening, the group will show a movie about Jesus on a portable screen in one of several local parks. Pastor Mark will be one of several preachers that will share the good news that Jesus offers freedom from sin and death with the crowds that gather.
If you want to support our team, they would love your prayers and donations. We have currently raised $2,000. We still need to raise an additional $1,000 to cover the cost of our plane tickets. We also have $450 in visa expenses. Checks can be made out to The EDGE Colorado. Please send your support to PO Box 620489, Littleton CO 80162.
Thanks for helping us make a difference in the lives of familes in Brazil,
Mark Kraakevik
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PO Box 620489, Littleton, CO 80162
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Thursday, July 02, 2009
Arrived in Forest City-the cultural center of the universe.
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Visas came! Brazil trip is a go, except for the 1000 bucks we still need.
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Wednesday, July 01, 2009
Off to St. Joe Hospital to pray for a friend going into surgery
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