Monthly Archives: December 2010

December 30, 2010

Primary Source of Entertainment for Hispanics is Staying at Home

Link: Primary Source of Entertainment for Hispanics is Staying at Home Mi casa es tu casa. How are you incorporating familia into your movement?

December 20, 2010

Believing In Themselves: Lula’s Leadership

If there is something I am proud of, it is to have told my people that we are not second-class citizens, that we can get things done, we can believe in ourselves, and then people have started to believe. - ...

December 19, 2010

Great video sharing an overview of the Bible. We began in a garden. We will end in a city. Redeem

Great video sharing an overview of the Bible. We began in a garden. We will end in a city. Redeemed. How are you giving your Destino movement a full picture of the broader story of God’s redemptive purposes? Have you taken ...

December 18, 2010

Demographics of Your City

Link: Demographics of Your City These are FASCINATING maps that allow you to view U.S. Census data by race and ethnicity for every county in los EE. UU.  Go ahead and look at your town? Does it match the demographics of your ...

December 12, 2010

The Danger of a Single Story: Wholeness in our Ethnic Identity

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9Ihs241zeg Wow!  This talk has resonated with me in so many ways!  I love this idea- that telling a single story about a people creates stereotypes.  The problem with stereotypes is not that they are wrong but that they are incomplete. ...

December 11, 2010

Latinos in Ministry Podcast

Link: Latinos in Ministry Podcast I can’t recommend the “Latinos in Ministry” podcast highly enough. There are great sermons from various speakers covering diverse topics such as: Not all Latinos eat Tacos Being Latino in America

December 10, 2010

Latino Ministry Resources – UrbanMinistry.org

Link: Latino Ministry Resources - UrbanMinistry.org I’ve found great ministry resources from this website, especially their “Latinos in Ministry” podcast that I’ll link to tomorrow.

December 9, 2010

Being White: Finding Our Place in a Multiethnic World

Many staff that work with Destino movements are White. But many of us have never recognized it until we started to do Destino. How does being white affect how we relate to ethnic minorities? How does it affect how we ...

December 8, 2010

“The most important challenge for the United States is to recognize itself as a mul

“The most important challenge for the United States is to recognize itself as a multi-cultural, multi-racial, multi-ethnic society.” - Octavio Paz, Mexican Poet (quoted in the above video at the 9:45 mark) This video from 2004 of Jorge Ramos, the Univision ...