As the Remnant Church is in construction for their new church facility, Pastor Victor rented out a studio on 110 St. and Broadway. It is hard to believe that some of these studios go for about $2000/mo! With that kind of rent in Michigan, a person can get a big house. Oh the cost of […]
Difference in the Teaching World
I found out not too long ago that Joyce Lee, a middle school teacher, who is a member in our church received an award. She won the “Educator of the Year Award” from the Michigan Association of Middle School Educators. It was encouraging to hear because we have been trying to encourage people in our […]
AMI TLT Meeting in NYC
I am at DTW waiting to get on a flight to JFK. For the next 3-4 days, I will be with the TLT (trans-local team) of AMI to pray, plan and prepare for the future things and events. There is so much going on and we are trying to make sure that we are doing […]
2008 Ministry Team Appreciation Dinner
It was great spending some time tonight with people who are serving in the various ministry teams in our church. I was reminded (once again) that people really do make up the church. It is inspiring to see people who have experience the grace and mercy of God and in response to that grace and […]
Diesel: The Junior Class
I had the opportunity to meet up with the Junior Class yesterday. It was encouraging to see so many of them come out. We ended up going around and sharing our 411. Then I opened up the floor for questions. The questions ranged from “what was your past like?” to “how do we achieve unity […]
B-School Students
Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with some of the business school students. Whenever I get to hang guys in the b-school it is a great joy for me. The incredible potential to make a difference in the world through these students is huge. Many of them are thinking beyond the typical goal of […]
Alumni Phone Conference
Last night, I had a phone conference with some of the HMCC alumni. We had close to 20 people on this phone conference and it was awesome reconnecting with them. I had them go around and share what they were doing currently and the one thing they missed about HMCC. I was able to see […]
Valentine’s Day Over-rated?
Christina and I are so different. Maybe this is one of the reasons why God brought us together – to humble us and make us more like His Son 🙂 We kind of have a different take on Valentine’s Day. I think it is great that there is a day where we can focus in […]
Hannah Montana Craze
On my way to the office, I was perusing through the radio waves. Then I heard this woman on the radio telling her husband that she was so unhappy in the marriage and that she wanted to divorce him. It was a live conversation over the radio. At first, I was a bit shocked. I […]
Video Reminiscing
Yesterday after enjoying Christina’s infamous Ja-Jang Myung (Black Bean Noodle… it taste better than it sounds), we all decided to watch some old videos that were recorded on a camcorder. We popped in some videos from 2003 and 2005. It was hilarious! It was amazing to see how much the kids have grown over the […]
The Game: The Questions
I have been doing “relationship” seminars and sermons for close to 16+ years. But for some reason, I felt like this year I wanted to approach it a bit differently. I have seen many generations come and go at the University of Michigan, but one thing remains constant – the topic of relationship is still […]
Creative Sports
I am always fascinated with children’s creativity. I think sometimes as we get older we lose some of the edge on creativity and spontaneity of a child. Today after dinner, the kids and I decided to play hockey… well, kind of like field hockey. For our stick, we used a small badminton-like rackets, toy golf […]
How Long is One Minute?
Tonight over the dinner table, Karissa asked us a question. “Is one minute a very long time?” she asked with an inquisitive heart. I could have given her a technical answer by having the whole family count 60 seconds and then tell her that we just went through one minute. But I decided to respond […]
Praise Night 2008 Part 2
Today, we are going to have the other half of the small groups in our church participate in the 2nd part of Praise Night. Last week, it was encouraging to see so many people come out for the 1st Praise Night. There were a lot of people who came to just […]