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Low and High, Rich and Poor

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of time…” So Charles Dickens famously begins his epic novel, A Tale of Two Cities.  I kept thinking of that quote these past few weeks as my travels took me not to two cities but rather two islands: the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean and […]

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Haiti Diary

Wednesday, July 14We took off from Reagan National for Miami at about 6am, then made a quick transfer there to our flight to Port-au-Prince.  Surprisingly, it was a big plane and it was full.  Many of the people on the flight were with Church groups (Evangelical Church groups), clearly identifiable by their T-shirts. As we […]

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Haiti: A Preview

We are back from Haiti and sorting out all of our experiences.  I will post an account of what happened to us day by day.  It was an amazing and life changing trip, but I am not sure yet what we learned or what our next steps are.  The experience is too fresh and too […]

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from st. marc!

Greetings from Les Bons Samaritains school in Haiti. It’s been an amazing three days, and it will be extremely difficult to sum up our experiences in just a few words. The weather has been hot with rain in the afternoons. Traveling from church to church is extremely difficult due to extreme erosion and lack of […]

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Making Church Matter

Haiti

This is an interesting time for our growing missions/service program.   On Wednesday, Brain Crook (our new Mission Director) and I meet with the Director of Catholic Charities for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Bill McCarthy. Bill is also a Nativity parishoner.  We shared with him the conviction we have formed about mission/service, namely that we […]

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You Got to Hit Me Over the Head

The other day I got hit over the head.  Here’s what happened.  I was sitting in my living room and part of the ceiling fell down.  I wasn’t hurt, and it wasn’t really a surprise.  A leaky roof had been repaired a while back, but the damage to the ceiling had gone unaddressed.  I just […]

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Ten Reasons I Know We’re Growing a Healthy, Mature Congregation (Part 1)

I was thinking today about how healthy and mature our congregation is becoming. I know, I know, that sounds self-congratulatory and prideful.  But I think on Father’s Day its OK to be a little proud of the family. No kidding, this is the most mature and healthy Church community I have ever been part of […]

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