Random stuff we found interesting, grabbed our attention, or simply some things we would like to share with you.
God is a God of “place-based” community. In fact, the book of Leviticus takes a deep dive into the specific features God wanted the Israelites to pay attention to as they built their community. From the overarching concept of the […]
As I write this, I’m flying across the island continent of Australia after having spent more than a week uncovering what God is up to in this amazing corner of his creation. Outside of Sydney, I had a chance to […]
A century-old Free Methodist church founded in 1908 in the middle of Washington state was not the most likely church home and mission field for 35-year-old Mike Wilson. He and I had collaborated on multiple campus expansions of the fast-growing […]
Demolition is set for this week on a long-closed, Winter Garden department store that will be rebuilt as Mosaic Community Church’s main campus. Now located off the West Orange Trail in Oakland, the church purchased a building with 78,000 square […]
Almost five decades ago, a storyteller named Walt Disney took what he had learned about the intersection of story and space and “imagineered” a Disney World roughly the same size as San Francisco and twice the size of Manhattan in […]
“If the culture is not by design, the culture is by default.” – Scott Milligan, Disney Institute A church building that clearly communicates its congregation’s story can lift the spirit, increase member engagement, and multiply its reach into the local […]
