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Popular Spanish Worship Albums

This first 12 days of January, we were in Nicaragua on Mission work.  I’ve assembled a summary of worship albums that seem to be popular based on how often we heard songs this week.

El Aire de Tu Casa Jesus Adrian Romero

Te Dare Lo Mejor, Jesus Adrian Romero, live.

Con Manos Vacías – Jesús Adrián Romero

A Sus Pies – Jesus Adrian Romero

Cerca de Ti – Jesús Adrián Romero

Mas Que un Anhelo – Marcela Gandara

I wasn’t able to find exact songs on Amazon to download single tracks.  Clearly, there is a fantastic anointing on Jesus Ardrian Romero.

If you have other albums to recommend, please note them in the comments.  Share with us!

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road Trip report

We have completed the first full week of our road trip.  In the Atlanta Georgia area, I had plans to meet with several readers of this blog, but I got very sick and had to cancel most appointments.  Even now, strength is beginning to return.

20 Twenty Vision Ministries

I was however able to reconnect with a friend, Chip Buehler, of 20Twenty Vision Ministries. 

Chip and I were leaders (along with several others) of a campus ministry during our college days during a time when God’s spirit was bringing renewal and faith to many people.  At times, our meetings had upwards of 200 people in them.  In reading Chip’s bio, I hadn’t realized how nearly 30 people from those meetings are now in full time ministry today because of what God had done.

Over the past 19 years, Chip has participated in six church plants and ministered to churches and leaders in over 30 nations. His heart for youth has also taken him to over 90 university campuses worldwide.

He is an excellent speaker on all sorts of issues, and I’m sure would be available to you if  had need.  Check out his website at 20Twenty Vision Ministries.  More content is coming from him as he migrates his paper records to a blog format.

Preaching in Charleston SC

The weekend took us to Charleston SC where I had the opportunity to preach at Rockville Presbyterian church (founded in 1850) on Wadmalaw Island on Sunday morning.  I was still weak and not at full speed, but still functional and able to communicate.  Based on the feedback, it seems that the message still found its way home.

That evening, I met with Iglesia Evangelica Buen Pastor that meets in Park Circle Presbyterian.  This church is mostly immigrants from Guatemala and Mexico.  In fact, I don’t think any other Central American country was represented in the church.

Our time in Charleston was hosted by some family friends who are involved at Seacoast church in Mount Pleasant.  We enjoyed some great fellowship and meals along the way and I can see God’s hand in all of the activity in Charleston.

This week as we stay put in one town for a few days, I’ll be sharing some of the thinking that I’ve been doing about evangelism.

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Friday Finds for June 13 2008

Gary Rohyrmayer writes in Developing a Sowing Mentality-Part 2:

4. Those with a “sowing mentality” are not particular about methods, “…whether this or that, or whether both will do equally well…”

In my experience too many church leaders get stuck or inebriated with a particular style of evangelism. Yet leaders with a sowing mentality understand it is never an “either/or” proposition but more of a “both/and” conviction. Equipping your people through a highly relational and incarnational style of evangelism is the first place to start but it does not rule out doing a systematic visitation or follow up process that is built on the connections with your public worship service. Equipping your people to be includers and inviters does not nullify the use of social networking, various types of marketing and branding your vision and image throughout your city. The old revivalist Leonard Ravenhill said, “Any method of evangelism will work if God is in it.”

Are you stuck with one form of evangelism?  Can you use the many different forms that are available?

What’s in a sign’s name?

A few days ago, the Washington Post published a report about churches renaming themselves in order to avoid a perceived stigma that the name “Baptist” carries in the mind of some people.

Claude Mariottini (link broken) speaks about the article but moves into four reasons why churches are unable to bring people into membership.

  1. Lack of Spiritual Power
  2. Lost Missionary Fervor
  3. Lack of costly discipleship
  4. Universalism.

Rapture site

I can’t tell if this article is serious or not. Website let Christians email their friends after Rapture.

YouveBeenLeftBehind.com lets subscribers send an e-mail message to up to 62 people exactly six days after they’ve disappeared from the face of the Earth, Wired Magazine’s Threat Level reports.

The website, run by Mark Heard along with four other Christians, dispatches the e-mails when at least three staff members fail to log in for six consecutive days. Its main purpose is to give Christians one final shot at evangelism.

In addition to the e-mail function, users of YouveBeenLeftBehind.com can also store personal and financial documents on the site. Up to 150 megabytes of information would be sent to up to 12 people after the presumed rapture.

“In the encrypted portion of your account you can give them access to your banking, brokerage, hidden valuables, and powers of attorneys,” explains the site.

“There won’t be any bodies, so probate court will take seven years to clear your assets to your next of kin. Seven years, of course, is all the time that will be left. So, basically the Government of the Antichrist gets your stuff, unless you make it available in another way.”

For a monthly subscription fee, you to can pay to have your witnessing automated after the rapture via auto responder.  Wow,  I don’t know if I’m to laugh or be embarrassed.

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A little church humor

ChurchHumorBreakfastCereals

Can you imagine what it would be like if churches were marketed as breakfast cereals?

  • Post Modern Flakes, I tried these, there were too Sweet and I needed to take Alka-Stetzer
  • Frosted Liturgicals, best served chilled with extra trappings
  • Reform Church Crunch, now 25% more fortified against change
  • Holy Ghost Toasties, a scoop of nuts in every box!
  • Cell Church Congra-bits, homemade flavor, less committees
  • Cheeful-ios, Popped with psychology and a pat of answers
  • Praisin’ Bran, All Hymns for Older Believers
  • Multisite-O-Meal, merging with a church near you!
  • Sweet-N-Seeker, Flavored with tasty sound bites
  • Contempo-Pops, new from HillSong Farms

Okay, just having a little fun there.

Source: Ministry Marketing Coach.

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