Good Reads

Here are some great short articles from Urbana:

Thank You Note to a Child Laborer
“These are tough financial times, and working for $2 per day to help provide for your family is also really helping us here in the west. I thought I should write a quick note of thanks.”

Social Justice and Evangelism
“A friend of mine, Doug Schaupp, observes that it is easier for him to take someone who is good at evangelism and turn them into a lover of justice than to take a socially active Christian and grow them into a good evangelist. That is sad to me.”

Anyone else find it easy to give and do but hard to speak the gospel? How can we develop ourselves into Christians who both proclaim and carry out the gospel?

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Thank you for your overwhelming response to the new food bin in the MCBC lobby! The folks at The Compass are quite happy at the food that’s coming in, and it truly warms our hearts to see the box full of food in the past few weeks.

Keep it up!

A neighbour in need

Here is a startling post from our friend Andy at Project417, about an encounter that hits really close to home for us who attend MCBC or live in Mississauga.

It begs the question: Are our suburban churches being good, caring neighbours to the people and the community around us? Do we even know who our neighbours are?

the suburban christian and other blogs

I’m a big fan of Al Hsu’s blog The Suburban Christian. It’s insightful and challenging for any suburban-dwelling believers.

Some other great missional/justice blogs I’ve encountered so far (but should really put on my RSS feed):

• Empire Remixed
• Jamie Arpin-Ricci’s A Living Alternative
• Mark Priddy’s Moving into the Neighbourhood
• Matt Adair’s Missio Dei Suburbia
• Todd Hiestand’s Missional Living in Suburban America

Big thanks to Al Hsu and Yu-Ling for pointing these out. If you know of any other missional- or justice-minded blogs, please post away!