Live Sent Today
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Mon Feb 14, 2022
Have you ever read something in the Bible and it felt weird or didn’t make sense, so you just pretended that part wasn’t there? Maybe it was Elisha and the bears in 2 Kings 2, or Ehud in Judges 3 … there are lots of passages in the Bible that are bizarre and unexpected! For me, it was the book of Romans. I always felt like the apostle Paul was being a bit bossy for my liking, so I avoided reading it.
Global Impact Celebration Week – February 23-27, 2022
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Thu Feb 10, 2022
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Global Impact Celebration is full of gatherings, forums, lunches, and other ways for you to get to know our ministry partners and also take part in celebrating what God is doing around the world. We encourage you attend as much as you can throughout the week.
Live Sent Today
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Mon Feb 7, 2022
I love Assessments. Tools such as Myer-Briggs Type Indicator, DISC, Enneagram, etc. can be extremely helpful in understanding why we do what we do, but it’s easy to cross the line from self-assessment to assessing others. We can convince ourselves we look pretty good when we compare our best to the short comings of others. In reality, if the goal is perfection, we all fall short.
Live Sent Today
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Mon Jan 31, 2022
Ever miss something…in that you just didn’t notice something? Years ago, I had to catch a shuttle bus in Denver from the rental car agency to the airport. Across from me sat a man who was engulfed in the sports section of the newspaper…raised up almost hiding his face, reading every line of it! As he turned the page, I noticed the headline piece was about the Colorado Avalanche (Hockey) and how they had just won a big game! It was a two-pager article, and he was into every word of it…Coloradans love their sports!
Live Sent Today
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Mon Jan 24, 2022
I was one of those kids that literally was raised in the church. I was a “good” kid and never really strayed from the church. Honestly, I was in church at negative 9 months old, if you know what I mean. I gave my life to Jesus when I was 9 years old and was baptized. I went to church and I was good because, well, that is what you are supposed to do…you are supposed be good!
Live Sent Today
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Tue Jan 18, 2022
With the beginning of a new year comes new opportunities!
This blog is one of those new opportunities for the Missional Living team. Each Monday a blog will be posted with two purposes: to encourage you to live sent in response to the weekend sermon and to update you with opportunities regarding Missional Living. The hope is you will be strengthened in your relationship with Jesus and be informed about upcoming missional experiences.
So, welcome to the first installment of … Live Sent Today!
Pray For Our Mission Teams
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Fri Nov 12, 2021
Several teams have been sent out to labor in His harvest. Please pray for their specific prayer needs as they labor in the field, and as they return home.
35 And Jesus went throughout all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. 36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. 37 Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; 38 therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”
Matthew 9:35-38
Missional Living Update - November 2021
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Fri Nov 5, 2021
With the holiday season right around the corner and as 2021 comes to a close, there will be many opportunities for you to Live Sent at home, in your neighborhood, and in the community. You can learn about them by downloading the pdf newsletter, or reading below:
Praying for a Post-Pandemic World
Posted in Missions | By Jordan Cox | Posted on Thu Sep 9, 2021
Our IMB Europe partner, Jacob Boss, encourages us to pray for his team and ourselves as we seek to minister to a post-pandemic world.
Refocus | Global Impact Celebration
Posted in Missions | By Shades Staff | Posted on Wed Apr 21, 2021
It was a phenomenal week of GIC!
We welcomed 37 missionaries to Birmingham, ministry partners from local contexts, church planters from across North America, and missionaries from three continents. We embraced church members who have been called through GIC as they returned to help us celebrate 20 years of a global legacy at Shades.