Make no mistake: if He rose at all
it was as His body;
if the cells’ dissolution did not reverse, the molecules
reknit, the amino acids rekindle,
the Church will fall.
It was not as the flowers,
each soft Spring recurrent;
it was not as His Spirit in the mouths and fuddled
eyes of the eleven apostles;
it was as His flesh: ours.
Nelson Okello, Ugandan country director for ALARM and I traveled to Pennsylvania. True to form I overbooked us and the result was a stimulating, encouraging and exhausting week. We met new friends at Hope International, Cardone Industries and World Vision among others. We drove many miles in eastern Pennsylvania, seeking to introduce the ministry of ALARM and to raise awareness of the needs in central Africa.
Nelson Okello, ALARM's Uganda Director, Celestin Musekura and I will be traveling to Pennsylvania this week. We have a full 3 1/2 days of meetings all over the eastern part of the state. Regretfully will not have time to visit many friends. Nelson and his wife, Jessica have been staying with Naomi and me as Jessica recovers from knee replacement surgery. They are great people and we are having great fun looking at the U.S. through African eyes. I took Nelson to Home Depot, Best Buy and the Bass Pro Shop. Great fun! He is amazed at these huge stores dedicated to just a few things.
I am first a person whose journey with God and others is the orienting center of my life. I seek to share openly of this halting, faltering discovery of the story of God in everyday living.
I can be contacted personally at earthlytents@comml.imap.cc
After 22 1/2 years as a pastor of a Philadelphia area church, and almost two years in New Zealand at Laidlaw College in Auckland, New Zealand, I am located in Dallas, Texas, as the International Director of ALARM (African Leadership and Reconciliation Ministries). ALARM is an organization that seeks to restore communities that have been devastated by tribalism and warfare.
My wife, Naomi, is an amazing person with whom I share my journey. I am blessed with two special children whom I love and admire--Ben, a web designer living in San Francisco Rebekah, our daughter, a singer/actress in Texas.
My passions: reading, popcorn, writing, photography, walking, time with friends and family, thinking about the problem of evil and suffering, peace building and reconciliation, living out the gospel in a postmodern world.
