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Missions Training, Part 1

Recently our team was approached by Halbert Institute for Missions at ACU, the organization training our team, about us planning and hosting an upcoming event. Each semester Halbert sponsors an event like this to inform the ACU community about the organization and missions opportunities.

Here are some pics from the Missional Learning Party that we threw. These are shot by DPS.

Fellowship



Game Time



Discussion



This was a great opportunity for us to get some practical experience organizing and implementing a plan. It definitely served as a good preface for our weekend training retreat just a week later (Which we'll get to in the next post).

Rosa

Today at work I received a letter from Rosa who is serving a life sentence in prison. She has been in prison for more than ten years. She hasn’t seen or heard from her husband in nearly eight years; her mother for five years; her daughters and brother the whole time she’s been there.

Rosa wanted to know whether to quit writing them.

She went on to tell me that the sentence she is serving is unjust since she was erroneously convicted of the crime that brought her there. As I wrote Rosa back I wondered whether I had any wisdom or encouragement to share. I continued either way. Just before slipping the letter into the envelope I realized that maybe it didn’t matter what I wrote but that I was writing.

Near my signature I jotted, “Write to me. I’ll write back.”

I pray that she finds hope in Jesus and finds the strength to press on.

Champions League 08-09

As all of you know the Champions League got rolling a couple weeks ago.

Eight groups of four, the best club teams of the 07-08 season in Europe, are battling to take the trophy from Manchester United, last year's victor. This is the most prestigious tournament in club soccer.

Since I track Manchester United most closely I'll catch you up on their situation.

They have found themselves in a challenging but still optimistic situation within Group E.

Group E:
Manchester United (07-08 English champions and 07-08 Champions League champions), Villareal (07-08 Spanish runner-up), Aalborg Boldspilklub (07-08 Danish champions), and Celtic (07-08 Scottish champions).

Each team will play their group opponents twice, once at home and once away. Tomorrow's games start the second of 6 games played within the group stage. Manchester United will be traveling to Aalborg after their 0-0 draw with Villareal at home. Fortunately the other two teams within their group (Aalborg and Celtic) also ended in a scoreless draw so little ground was lost.

After the first round of matches a couple formidable teams to watch are Chelsea and Inter.

Check back in later this week to find out how Manchester faired against Aalborg.


Manchester United after winning the 07-08 tournament.

***UPDATE***


3-0 Manchester, thanks to Wayne Rooney (22') and Dimitar Berbatov (55' and 79')

The Youth of Chile

I've sat here for some time now trying to figure out how to introduce this article to you. I've been searching for words that would keep me from sounding "holier than thou" or as if I have confused our plans for working in Chile with some heroic or messiah-like mission.

Darkness like this, stealing the beautiful hearts and robbing the innocence of the young in Chile, it's one of the reasons we press on. It's surely one of the reasons we feel burdened to go.

A teammate passed this article to us today from the New York Times.

"In Tangle of Young Lips, a Sex Rebellion in Chile"