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UK Update...this is our family blog about our life in ministry from our home in Edinburgh.  Also, take a look at Pastor Chad's blog for his weekly reflections on faith, life, theology and scripture.  Enjoy!

Sunday
31Jan2010

Paul Michael's Beaver Promise

Here is a little video of Paul Michael being inducted into his Beaver Scout Troop.  They meet in his Abbeyhill School, and as you can see, he is very proud.  And so are we. And I'm sure Granddaddy is, too!

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Sunday
06Sep2009

2 hours to Edinburgh

"So, why are you moving to Scotland?" "Graduate Studies" "Aye. In what?" "Ethics." "Aye. Why? What do you do?" "Well, I'm an ordained pastor," I said. He sent back a blank stare, so I followed up with, "A priest." "Oh, aye. So, what made you become a Priest?" Suddenly, I realized, this was more than a gas and go. I looked up from the debit card keypad and said, "Faith." The man said, "Oh, right. Well, I've been baptized, but I'm actually a non-believer." I suggested, "Well, it's not about belief, it's about faith."

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Sunday
06Sep2009

Paul Michael's Prayer

Tonight, Paul Michael wrote a prayer, and he wanted to share it with you: "I love the Spirit and God loves us and everyone. We love Him so much and he cares for us and the creatures all over the world and me and you. Amen."

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Thursday
30Jul2009

ICC featured on the ELCA website...

Great news for the International Church of Copenhagen. For our work on the Green Church initiatives "Gron Kirke" (www.gronkirke.dk), we are being recognized in September as the first certified green church in Denmark. We will be on the ELCA's homepage (www.elca.org) until August 3rd, and the images are below. Good things growing in our corner of the Kingdom...

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Tuesday
09Jun2009

Closing the circle...

Well, half a year later, all of that degrading, rotting stuff of the earth has produced some great dirt full of centipedes and slugs, ants and crawly things that the boys thought was really cool. And now, that the front garden has been weeded, it was ready to take on some of our newly composted soil. And in that soil, the boys have planted squash, lettuce, carrots, radishes, and tomatoes. From the vegetables that we ate last year comes a seedbed to grow the vegetables that we'll eat this year. We're Closing the Circle.

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