Next TI Admin meeting... Tues, Apr.26, 3pm

Our next TI Leaders meeting is THIS Tues, April 26, 3:00-4:30pm... at Eldon's place.

Call for further info if needed... 871-4098.

Looking forward to praying and planning together.

The gift of giving...

By
Becki Jenkins
President/Director
Missionary Connection

The lost art of giving for the sake of it has been lost. How can we get it back in a society that is stuck on me…me….me. As Christians we are taught that it is more blessed to give than to receive, so why is it hard for us to grasp Jesus words when he said, “ Sell all your goods, give it to the poor and follow me…” Again in Acts 2: 45 it speaks of the followers of Christ selling all and giving it to any in need but what of the disciple of today?

view the rest of the article at : http://mcconnect.blogspot.com

National Day of Prayer & Global Day of Prayer

National Day of Prayer, May 5th....

Indiana link... http://NDP-IN.org

And Global Day of Prayer, May 15th...

Indiana link... http://globaldayofprayerin.blogspot.com

Tom? What else should we know?

Blogging the National City Impact Roundtable...

What a great opportunity, to come be with 115 city representatives from around the country & globe. It's too awesome to blog... but we're trying... at CityReaching.org -- now hosting the new NATIONAL city reaching blogsite, by Mission America Coalition.

Guess where?



[Click pic to continue the day-to-day blogging during the national roundtable.]

Meeting Moves To Lafayette... May 5th

Our May (5th) meeting of Transform Indiana ministry network is for the first time moving our monthly gathering out of the Greater Indianapolis area, to another city-clusters of driven Christians. In this case, we'll be meeting with the Lafayette pastors/leaders there, on May 5th, after the National Day of Prayer Breakfast in Lafayette that morning.

Stay tuned for further details. Or contact Eldon Kibbey, Moderator.

Missionary Connection

Missionary Connection

Exciting Events

!New Worship Workshops! Right here in Indy! Check out the link below for more information...fantasic!

http://www.ipwc.org/registration_donation/registration.htm

Missionary Connection

Missionary Connection

Lap Tops for Missionaries

Need New or Used Pentium III or better Lap Tops for missionaries that travel ans need to stay connected. If you or someone you know can help.please Contact Pastor Becki Jenkins at 317-627-5813 or becki5789@msn.com

Noel Castellanos... Christianity Today article

Remember Noel Castellanos being here in Indy in February for our CCDA/TransformIndiana meeting? This week he showed up in Christianity Today in an article that will rock the way we do church. Definitely cool. Recall, Noel will be among other great city impacters coming in November for CCDA Indy 2005. [check out their CCDA Blog]



[excerpted from Christianity Today's featured articles this month]

In Divided by Faith: Evangelicals and the Problem of Race in America (2000), sociologists Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith argued that much of the racial dysfunction in the American church today is the result of an individualized theological worldview that blinds white evangelicals to certain societal injustices. The book's shocking assertion stirred debate and became a paradigm-shifting read for many evangelical leaders

[continued at ChristianityToday.com]

[hat-tip, Rudy Carrasco... UrbanOnramps.com]

[This particular issue of CT is a 'must-read' for all city impacters. And IMHO it will become a classic, as it's definitely thought-provoking, and may even offend our traditional experience of 'doing church'. While it has long been a core part of the culture & training at Crossroads Bible College, when you have major (white) players like Bill Hybels questioning his first 25 years of ministry, you know God is working in unbelievable ways to pull the Church together. ...Neil]