NieuCommunities

I’ve been reflecting a lot about some of the conversations I’ve been having this week around how we (NC) can work with local church planting movements. But the lingering thing in my brain that I wanted to put out to our readership are questions. Questions that I think give a window into more of what [...]

He’s not a main line icon in the South African Church. He’s not invited to speak at massive conferences. The guys that should be never are though. His name is Naitai. He, along with a gang of church planters, are responsible for storming the gates of hell in Pretoria in the name of Jesus Christ. [...]

How do you know when you’re winning? How do you know you’re really making an impact or a difference? Ministry is different than business because the “product” is life change. That’s a complex thing to measure! For NieuCommunities South Africa, right now, I would say we have a good way to gauge some of our [...]

I can’t believe it. People who follow Jesus can’t possibly be this crazy. In a follow up from yesterday’s post… I had a conversation with my friend Tess. I had just heard through the grapevine that she was considering going to Egypt on mission… no no no… SHE QUIT HER JOB and leaves in 3 [...]

Yeah, Egypt. I was recently informed that someone we just did “Life Compass” with (one of our training materials) has since felt God nudging them to become a missionary to Egypt. I don’t really have anything else to say about this… I’m simply stunned how God stirs things up! Still aiming to send some South [...]

I want to preface to say that I’m no expert… I feel like such a student each day of the week, it’s kind of scary sometimes. But the posture of student has warranted some pretty rad lessons along the way. I had one today I felt would be good to share. I’m starting to think [...]

This morning, I had the privilege of teaching at 3rdPlace church. Before we dug into the text (Luke 12), a university student named William stood up and began dialoging about some things that he’s begun to wrestle with. It centered on the issue of racial integration and the call of the Church to rectify what [...]

I don’t have explanations or boxes for what we’re seeing swirling around Clydesdale. You can’t predict or plan for things. We just pray that God would allow us to play in his kingdom, cross the street, push the kids on the swings and meet neighbors. It’s really just life. But when you ask God to [...]

This morning, I woke up and prayed the Lord’s Prayer. At the end of it, I just asked God if I could simply play in the kingdom playground today and see what friends might come up to kick the ball around with. I should pray that every morning! -Had coffee with Sergio, the car guard [...]

Last week, Natalie, Malachi and I flew to Langkawi, Malaysia to join the other 400 missionaries of CRM for their World Wide Conference. It was LOADED with some really great moments, some really challenging moments, and some really inspiring moments. I want to give some of my take-aways here in bullet form… 1. I have [...]