Poema – March 2024, Week 2

Poema – March 2024, Week 2

Dear Grace, “Two are better than one…” That’s the phrase that keeps reverberating through my mind as I think about life and ministry. There’s a well-known African proverb that says, “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The...
Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 3

Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 3

Dear Grace, We’re now into Lent (and our series on Ecclesiastes!). I don’t know about you, but fasting has brought up many interesting conversations in our family. This is the first year that our littlest ones are fasting from something, and what it has revealed...
Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 2

Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 2

Dear Grace, It’s Ash Wednesday today (and Valentine’s Day) – what a seemingly odd juncture of remembering death and celebrating love? I think I’ve heard a dozen or so jokes about Ash Wednesday being on Feb. 14th, and while the amusement might play off of the...
Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 1

Poema – Feb. 2024, Week 1

Dear Grace, What an incredible weekend we had! Having Rev. John Oh minister to us (and how about that interpretation work by Dr. Matt Lee?) was a defining moment for us as a church. We have never had a sermon delivered in another language translated into English. The...
Poema – Jan. 2024, Week 4

Poema – Jan. 2024, Week 4

Yesterday, at our weekly Teaching Team meeting, one of the pastors asked, “How do you think that the current series [Truly Human] is going?” We took turns sharing how God is coming to us, and also the bits here and there of what we’ve heard from conversations with...