Poema – May 2024, Week 2

Poema – May 2024, Week 2

Dear Grace, The buzz is growing a little more each day as the week unfolds. Folks are trickling in from all over the nation and even the world. We got to hear about the incredible move of God among Muslims in Southeast Asia – 31 generations of disciples making...
Poema – May 2024, Week 1

Poema – May 2024, Week 1

Dear Grace, Happy beginning of May. My son, Calvin, and I were remarking this morning how fast the year has gone by. I don’t know when I started measuring the duration of the season with my oldest son by how many summers I have left with him – 2 more before he...
Poema – April 2024, Week 4

Poema – April 2024, Week 4

Dear Grace, I had a perfect moment last Sunday. My family and I sat around a fire in our backyard, telling stories, and sharing about the very full weekend that we had experienced: our teens shared about how they experienced the student retreat, my littlest shared...
Poema – April 2024, Week 3

Poema – April 2024, Week 3

Dear Grace, Can you believe that our study in Ecclesiastes is almost over? (Hopefully, the living it out isn’t anywhere near finished!) I don’t know about you, but I’ve been finding myself quoting or referring back to Ecclesiastes regularly in conversation…even...
Poema – April 2024, Week 2

Poema – April 2024, Week 2

Dearest Grace, Last week someone asked me what it was like for my wife Carol and I to serve communion over and over and over again on Good Friday. If you were not able to be at our Good Friday gathering, there was a portion of the gathering where we took Communion....
Poema – April 2024, Week 1

Poema – April 2024, Week 1

Dear Grace, What a Holy Week! We got a full-dimensional picture of the beauty of Grace. Our Holy Week a.m. devotions were a wonderful time of reflecting on the timeline of Jesus’ march to the cross, all in the context of a multi-generational gathering around breakfast...