September 2010
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What's Happening Here
Hey Friends-
In case you’re curious what I’m working on these days, here is the quick rundown:
Alumni- I’m keeping in contact with our alumni flung all over Britain and the rest of the world. I’m also setting up trips to visit various cities each month, as well as planning a regular Saturday night service in Birmingham that will launch in January.
Welcome Project-...
The Church and Homosexuality →
This is a blog post by Donald Miller. Written in light of recent allegations against a mega-church pastor in my home state of Georgia, I think this is an article written with a lot of honesty.
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Paint
This is Simon. Simon is a student at Canvas who spent most of his weekend scraping paint off of old brick walls. We’ve been doing a lot of this recently. I’ve actually tricked myself into having a good attitude about it by imagining that I’m some great artist working on something beautiful. You don’t mind being covered in paint chips as much when you go to the world of...
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Canvas Welcome Project 2010: We need Your Help
What is The Canvas Welcome Project? The Canvas Welcome Project is our way of launching the ministry each year. It is designed to tell university students in Selly Oak about Canvas and invite them into our ministry. Every fall for the past two years Canvas has gone door to door and given a gift to student houses in the neighborhood around the Canvas House. It allows us to welcome them to a...
“Let someone else have dibs on being typical today; get back to building that...”
– Bob Goff (follow @bobgoff on Twitter for a fount of wisdom)
“Strange, isn’t it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn’t...”
– It’s A Wonderful Life
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Lockers
I was thinking the other day about lockers. Not your average, cubed gym locker, but those kind that you first got when you went into middle school. The one’s that you had throughout high school. Many of you (if you’re an American around my age) will remember watching “Saved by the Bell” and seeing those floor-length metal beacons of coolness that Zack Morris was somehow...
WatchThis is first of many videos that we’ll be doing during the transformation. As the butterfly emerges from the cocoon, so this shall become Canvas. Credit to Kevin Miller for putting this together.
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“The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth,...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
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Kids
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I was reading this brief article the other day about how all people are essentially still just children deep down within themselves with the same primal fears and hopes and insecurities and longings that they have always had since they were barely winking at the sky from their strollers. Well, I was on the London Underground a lot this weekend, way down deep like a mole...
