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Comment on 4 Ways Lent Can Grow Your Movement by destinoovalle

destinoovalle — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:26:00 +0000

This year we are hoping to learn more about Lent and encouraging our movement to attend the campus mass on that day with our friends

Comment on Mission FROM: A Needed Paradigm in North American Missions by destinoeric

destinoeric — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:31:59 +0000

Thanks Dchan!

It’s been a privilege to work with you in the past on this very issue. Keep up the good work friend!

Comment on Mission FROM: A Needed Paradigm in North American Missions by Dchan

Dchan — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 04:00:00 +0000

I’m working towards this! Nice job laying out the main points. This is very transferrable content.

Comment on Mission FROM: A Needed Paradigm in North American Missions by destinoeric

destinoeric — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:56:00 +0000

Thanks so much Margaret. It is a privilege to work together with you and the rest of our Epic friends towards this vision. Maybe if I had a little forsight I should have titled this post, “Why we need more Linsanity in Missions”.

Comment on Mission FROM: A Needed Paradigm in North American Missions by Margaret Yu

Margaret Yu — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:38:00 +0000

I want to join you in this as well. Mission FROM Asian Americans to the world…that is Epic’s vision as well. We are with you. And I agree, we must think of new systems to sustain new missionaries. I am tired of not seeing as many ethnic Americans involved in missions. I am looking for more from God. Thanks for your perspective….it is refreshing. I want to join Destino if I could.. blessings. marg

Comment on Why Appointments Might Only Be For White People by destinoeric

destinoeric — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:41:00 +0000

Roberto,

Thanks for the response. I agree with you, Hispanics use appointments and varying degrees of structure in their lives. (Even within what we would call “Hispanic” there is so much variation). I stated the title strongly so that it would cause people to think, but probably over reached with it.

I wonder how much the fact that we work with college students plays into this post as well. College students in general tend to live less structured lives. If you combine that with the Hispanic value for relationship or event orientation over time orientation you could see the differences even more pronounced.

What do you think?

Comment on Why Appointments Might Only Be For White People by Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:29:00 +0000

While your take on appointments not being so rigid in the Hispanic context is correct. I think your statement that appointments might be only for white people is just continuing a stereotype that Hispanics live unstructured lives. This is not the case. I am a Hispanic and know a lot of them that keep and value appointments. While we don’t live by the minute, we do seek to have a structure in our lives.

Comment on Do You Trust Your Students? by destinoeric

destinoeric — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Adrian, great point. When we train our students are we simply trying to clone ourselves or are we helping them become all who God created them to be?

I think we need to define success more than just according to what we’ve done, but what have we empowered others to do (including what we would never have been able to do ourselves).

Comment on Do You Trust Your Students? by Adrian Pei

Adrian Pei — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Great reminder and I like the questions at the end. It’s so hard for ministry leaders to give up control and what they think is influence, isn’t it? Another thing we’ve seen is a danger is when there’s an approach to train others to simply be able to do the same things, not to surpass what we can do or imagine. It’s like self-preservation v. empowerment.

Comment on Do You Trust Your Students? by destinoeric

destinoeric — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:00:00 +0000

Thanks Stephanie. Its a lesson I had to learn the hard way.