Posted on Thursday, 26th June 2008 by chris wignall

I am trying to catch loose ends before I leave for a project with Medical Ministry International in the Dominican Republic tomorrow morning. Point form here we go:
-I am very excited about the time with MMI. They (Leanne Graham in particular) have been amazing in the process of making arrangements for this trip after two [...]

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Posted on Monday, 23rd June 2008 by chris wignall

This is my contribution to the synchroblog coordinated by the Blind Beggar. See all the other contributions here.
What is “Missional”?This is an intriguing thing; this “synchroblog”. A large part of me is very excited to participate and to read what other people have to say about the latest evangelical buzzword. I’m counting on a wide [...]

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Posted on Monday, 23rd June 2008 by chris wignall

Here’s the list of participants in the synchroblog on “What is missional?”
I’ll post my thoughts later today.
Alan Hirsch
Alan Knox
Andrew Jones
Barb Peters
Bill Kinnon
Brad Brisco
Brad Grinnen
Brad Sargent
Brother Maynard
Bryan Riley
Chad Brooks
Chris Wignall
Cobus Van Wyngaard
Dave DeVries
David Best
David Fitch
David Wierzbicki
DoSi
Doug Jones
Duncan McFadzean
Erika Haub
Grace
Jamie Arpin-Ricci
Jeff McQuilkin
John Smulo
Jonathan Brink
JR Rozko
Kathy Escobar
Len Hjalmarson
Makeesha Fisher
Malcolm Lanham
Mark Berry
Mark Petersen
Mark Priddy
Michael Crane
Michael Stewart
Nick Loyd
Patrick Oden
Peggy Brown
Phil [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 17th June 2008 by chris wignall

Recent posts have been fairly earnest. This should remedy that trend.
Re: Evaluation of Non-profits/ministries;
Cartoonist: Ed Koehler, 1984 and Christianity Today International/BuildingChurchLeaders.com. Used with permission

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Posted on Monday, 16th June 2008 by chris wignall

There is no doubt that Jesus was and is a leader. However, in our quest to develop leaders we are often guilty of abusing the Biblical accounts of his life, death, and resurrection. My shelf contains several books claiming to draw leadership principles from the life of Jesus that we can all apply to our [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 11th June 2008 by chris wignall

On The Hour tonight one of the guests is Paul Polak, founder of IDE. He is leading advocate of what some people call Market Driven Development. The basic idea is that traditional charity efforts are doomed in part simply because they are based around giving things to needy people for free.
Polak and others argue [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 4th June 2008 by chris wignall

At the dentist’s office this morning I saw a sign that said something like “The greatest compliment we can receive is you recommending our services to your friends and loved ones”. Since the dentist is my brother-in-law I guess I’m included there.
The thing is; most of us involved in nonprofit work (like the for profit [...]

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Posted on Wednesday, 4th June 2008 by chris wignall

The Chronicle of Philanthropy has posted a transcript of an interesting live discussion with marketing guru Seth Godin. It may not be entirely in depth; but I suspect some of the people at organizations we are interacting with would benefit from the quick read through.
A couple interesting insights for me:
-the difficulty of really understanding the [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 3rd June 2008 by chris wignall

When did you last feel deeply and enthusiastically happy?
Last week’s Globe and Mail contained an article by Margaret Wente that expressed some of the latest research findings on happiness. (Yeah, they can get money to study anything these days).
Among the findings she describes if that the easiest life change we can make to increase our [...]

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