This past weekend at Eastbrook Church, guest speaker Mark DeYmaz kicked off our series "Love Your Neighborhood" with a powerful and challenging message. Mark is the Pastor at Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and the founder of the Mosaix Global Network, a network of churches, organizations, and leaders seeking to strengthen multi-ethnic churches and …
Love Your Neighborhood
Beginning this weekend, May 31 & June 1, we start a new series at Eastbrook entitled "Love Your Neighborhood." Jesus said we should love our neighbor as ourselves. What does it mean to take that to the streets literally by loving those around us where we live, work, and play? What does it mean for us as …
Multi-Ethnic Church Pre-Conference Session
I blogged through the pre-conference sessions on the multi-ethnic church for Exponential 2013 that I attended over the past few days. You can access all the sessions here: - Session 1: Mark DeYmaz on theology of multi-ethnic ministry - Session 2: Pastor Wilfredo 'Choco' de Jesus on his church in Chicago - Session 3: Rich …
Continue reading "Multi-Ethnic Church Pre-Conference Session"
Mark DeYmaz on Multi-Ethnic Church, part 2
Mark DeYmaz led another session of the pre-conference here at Exponential 2013. This was a bit more practical than his first session which was more on theological foundations for multi-ethnic church. You can read my notes below [You can read notes from Mark's previous session here.]: 20% diversity is a line from sociologists Emerson and …
Continue reading "Mark DeYmaz on Multi-Ethnic Church, part 2"
Mark DeYmaz on Multi-Ethnic Church
I am attending the pre-conference sessions at Exponential 2013 on the multi-ethnic church. The first session was led by Mark DeYmaz of Mosaic Church in Little Rock, Arkansas, and author of many books including, Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church. Here are my notes from that session: Theology & philosophy: - Jesus' vision - Early church …
Matthew Erickson 