When people learn that I live in Hawaii they have fantasies of lazy days spent lounging beneath a palm tree on a beautiful beach. Right. Those people have no idea about the cost of living here, that requires most people to work long hours, multiple jobs and barely get by. But I digress… I am hoping to make a trip to Israel in January, one of those study/tours that pastors take to experience the Holy Land first hand. It is a great opportunity, and is even being provided as a scholarship, for which I am grateful. For most people on this trip it will cost them only a few hundred dollars: an inexpensive flight to the point of departure in New Jersey and some lunch and spending money. Being in Hawaii is a disadvantage on this one, as I have to obtain round-trip flights from HNL to EWR at a cost of over $1,000. One thousand-I-don't-have-dollars. Add the awkward timing of those flights and availble connections, and it is possible that I may have to add one night in a hotel either before or after the Israel trip, which adds another couple of hundred dollars to the "free" trip. This is one of those times I wish that Star Trek Transporter device was a reality. Beam me to New Jersey, Scotty?
9.22.2011
9.21.2011
Mentoring Class
The Hawaii Ministry Development Center presents a six week course Introduction to Mentoring. This 6-week course will help you recognize the contribution of those who have helped shape you into who you are, and the importance of mentoring others. Every leader and everyone who aspires to become a leader should learn the fundamentals of mentoring.
Instructor: Gary Langley
The Hawai‘i Ministry Development Center is dedicated to providing inspiration, information, support and encouragement to those in active Christian ministry and those seeking to be.
Through edification and education leaders and emerging leaders will become better able “to equip his people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” (Ephesians 4:12-13)
Operated under the auspices of the Hawai‘i Church of God of Prophecy (COGOP), the Hawai‘i Ministry Development Center is a transdenominational institution.
9.01.2011
Show this to your whiney, spoiled kid
I came across this series of photos of children around the world and the places they sleep: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/04/where-children-sleep/ What an excellent reminder that this is not one world. If your kids start whining that their bedroom flatscreen TV is too small, or their wardrobe is six months old, take them through these photos and show them how some other kids in the world live. (And — while you're at it — why not try to make a difference in the life of some kid living in poverty by going to http://www.compassion.com/ and picking out a child who needs a monthly sponsor?) Poverty is not just a lack of money; it is a lack of options… a lack of opportunity.
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