Friends, Family, and .... Buffalo?
(UPDATE!!! IMPORTANT! The Meeting with Mahzar Mallouhi is at 5PM… NOT 7PM! If you are planning to be here, please note this change!)
OK, so my iPhone pictures aren’t the best in the world but you get the point on this one. Last week we had a great Glocalnet Turbo training and Rick McKinley was the highlight for me. I showed him some good Texas food beyond our famous barbecue and Mexican food - he loved it. He’s standing here inside the Reatta restaurant with a buffalo. He was gobblin’ down things he didn’t know what they were or where they’d been on the buffalo - but he enjoyed them all!
Sorry for being slow on posting - been super busy since I got back from the other side of the world - but things are calming down to a little bit more normalcy. If you’re in the DFW area, Mazhar Mallouhi will be with me here in Keller later this week. Thursday night at 7pm 5pm in The Plex at NorthWood he’s going to meet with a group of us and discuss the Kingdom of God and Islam. He’s a Syrian born follower of Jesus and considers himself a Muslim - (Submitted to God). You can read about him in “Pilgrim’s of Christ on the Muslim Road” by Paul Gordon Chandler. You’re welcome to join us if you’re close by - just call the church office at 817-431-2088 and let us know. Mazhar is friends with leading Islamic scholars and leaders so if you have some Muslim friends they’d be welcome as well and just may enjoy it!
I now have relatives in DFW beyond my immediate family! My niece Bethany was married to a cool dude Saturday night named Spencer - they will be living in Lewisville!!!!! Yeahhhhh! There’s an awesome church over there and a good bud of mine Matt Chandler is the pastor, the Village - and it’s not like M. Night Shyamalan’s “The Village”. My niece’s little bother, my nephew, Samuel is moving to North Texas University in Denton - he says he’s excited but he doesn’t want to study. What’s new!
This week I’m going to be blogging on God, money and economics - I’ll interview Mazhar - who knows what else - stay tuned.
Blog Categories
Search Glocalnet
Support
Partners
Comments
Aug 19, 2008 at 11:30 AM
Bob, I had a fantastic time at the Turbo Training and thoroughly enjoyed hearing from Rick. He pushed me in new directions (as did most all I heard).
Your brief assertion that I need to continue to think about ways to move theological education into the virtual and global arena have stayed with me all weekend and I continue to pray and seek God's direction here. Any thoughts you have are welcome.
Thanks for your ministry.
Aug 20, 2008 at 10:12 AM
Steve - that ain't my bag - but it is God's - and I just don't know how to counsel you. I would say you should connect globally with pastors and listen - not the denominational global pastors - many of them won't always be as transparent for obvious reasons. You should go and listen - I'll give you a list and let you go visit some of my buddies globally - IF YOU'LL JUST SIT AND LISTEN - if you start trying to sell them - you won't learn what you need. Forget emailing them - you have to know these guys and it starts by listening . . . .
Aug 20, 2008 at 11:37 AM
Bob, thanks for the reply. I've got no problem with sitting and listening! In fact, I'm pretty good at that! If you want to give me a list, I'd love that. Thanks again!
Leave a Reply