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Long time readers of Kingdom Travelin know that I blog in spurts because of busy-ness and the accompanying sometimes lack of good reading time. Well, I have nearly 500 pages which are the theological musings of my students to read and evaluate in the next 12 days…. here is the stack…

I suspect that they will inspire me to some posts over the next two weeks… Well, at least thier qoutes might!

MISSION “We cross cultures in Word and deed through education, church planting and love to bring the Gospel of Grace to those in need.”

This is the new mission statement of Christian Educators Outreach.  There are a couple of key things that I should emphasize about this statement.

We capitalize “Word” intentionally. We know that Jesus’ work in our lives is the key to real and meaningful change in us and beyond. Jesus is the Word became flesh (John 1). But we also have the Word of God to guide, inform and instruct us (2 Tim 3:16). Therefore, when we say “Word”, we mean God working through us because Jesus changes and guides us.

The “Gospel of Grace” is also a key. To understand the Gospel of Grace, we need to understand what we mean by the Gospel. It is implied above, but let me be explicit, it is the work of Jesus (His life, teachings, miracles, suffering, death, burial, resurrection, ascension, and promised return) that give us new life by faith, that is the ‘Grace’ bit. The work of Jesus is free. We did not and do not earn it. We receive the free gift of relationship with God through Jesus work, which will change us and then the world.

Your comments and questions are welcome.

VISION: To see the Gospel of Grace influence cultures and alleviate the suffering of children, students and families from neglect, abuse and oppression. 

Christian Educators Outreach

Only the faithful readers have been checking kingdomtravelin lately (and all they get are the latest Twitter post. In fact the daily count, I just discovered, is in the single digits! That is because of the lack of posts in the last few weeks (note the calendar on the right). See, its been a busy, busy time of normal end of school year stuff… and then there is the transition… and that means that my willingness to do meaningful reading has been virtually curtailed. It’s like, at the end of the day, I just collapse. So, sadly, the blog has been reduced to a recording of experiences, which is a small part of the mission of this blog. In fact, the reason I pump my Twitter onto the blog is to let my interested friends have a place to see some of what I am up to and am thinking. Thus the necessity of talking about experiences is lessened.

How’s the transisition going, you ask? Well, a couple of months ago, I wanted to finish strong. I wanted this year to finish as good as any and better than most. But I have run out of energy. All I want right now is to be done. But as far as the classroom is concerned, that is almost over. I have four more classes until I am a former teacher. At 09:40 this Thursday, the bell will ring and after 16 years of teaching high school, my last class will be over (starting Monday I am giving AP exams for two weeks). I am SO ready for that bell.

I’ve said a couple of times that I now understand why people give two week notices when leaving a job – I gave a four and a half month notice. It can be really hard to keep going when you know you are done. I’ve been compiling a mental list of things I will miss and things I will not miss at Covenant. In every organization and job have things which we faithfully do week in and week out which now as I go through these last weeks, some of it just seems like real nonsence. But nonsence or not, we dutifully accomplish these tasks because of the realization that there are people depending on us to do them.  In a meeting a little while ago, a colleague said I was worse than the seniors. He’s right. Have you noticed I’m rambling? Should I stop? or just say something meaningful finally? Can I rescue this post?

One of the great fundamental doctrines of the Christian faith is that Jesus is coming back. I no longer participate in the argument about when and how or get into the details surrounding the return, I just know that He will and I’ve often said, I wish He would hurry up. I like to say that I wish He would hurry up. But in the meantime we need to keep working as hard as we can for His glory. It has been said this way, “work like His coming is off in the distance, hope like He will come today” (I don’t know who said it) Maybe that is what I am doing now, working as hard as there is no end in sight, and hoping that the end will be soon. That is the hope of the faithful.

Thirty-Seven days and counting.

Spring time is here. This means travelin. Having been to DC, Philly and NYC since Easter days, we’re off to Roanoke. Posting is minimal on the blog, emailing is via the Palm so emails are short but I’m keeping up… I got a couple of great pics to post if I ever get on a computer. But I am Twittering and that shows up on the blog too so there are new thoughts in the Twittter link. I’m grateful for the technology.