Wednesday, July 02, 2008

A MicroEnterprise Initiative Moves beyond a pilot project...

This past Weekend Christain Assembly in Eagle Rock allowed us to do a book drive at their church. We have recieved 131 boxes of books which we estimate to be about 3,100 books. This will position us to begin working on our vision to teach emerging leaders how to use various internet tools to build economic opportunities. Pray for this work. It take vision to move beyond a Santa Claus mentality to vision. What is critical is that this resource is turned into tools for learning skills that will be applied to other opportunities.

"To go well beyond teaching someone how to fish... to learn how to position oneself to own the pond if that is what is needed... Still how to fish is necessary..."

Jonathan McCracken will have a critical role in the transfer of some of the initial skills. He has done all that I have asked him to do and is bennefiting from it... and is running a small model business for others to learn from...

If you look up enterprise international you will see a video that talks about this ministy thrust...
Look at the Los Angeles story...

I literally have 2 women who are gifted evangelists... that any increase in economic freedom would mean increased evangelism & Discipleship efforts.

I have an emerging teacher who will not get his first real pay check until October. He is full of questions about God, Faith, and doubts... But he hungers for truth and justice.

I have a network of emerging artists... all in different places of faith...

I have a 2 friends who have a ministry to skatter youth in their neighborhood... once again it is economics that limit the time that they can invest in a significant network of youth.

Some of us dream of the what if we could stumble into the kind of grace that the early church in Act2 gew out of... We long for this deeper sense of community...

This is part of what will mark my efforts this summer.

Peace and Grace,
Jaw1