Tag: Multi-ethnic church
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Church in Bronzeville: An Update
Our new church, New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville, is rapidly approaching the three-month mark of weekly Sunday services. A couple of Sundays ago we held a church picnic at Promontory Point where these photos were taken. The 40 or 50 of us that could make it had a great afternoon eating, playing and getting…
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Mark DeYmaz Interview
Part One of my interview with Mark DeYmaz, author of Ethnic Blends: Mixing Diversity Into Your Local Church has been posted at Out of Ur. Mark is the pastor of Mosaic Church of Central Arkansas and a major proponent of the multi-ethnic church movement. Mark is also the author of Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church,…
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Flowers and Trash
One of the things our new church- New Community Covenant Church in Bronzeville– has said repeatedly is that we will exist for the good of our neighbors and neighborhoods. In other words, our times of gathering together for worship are meant to align our minds and heart towards God so that we may be sent…
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Bits and Pieces
I’m beginning the process of two author interviews via email. Mark De Ymaz (and coauthor Harry Li) has written a very practical book about multi-ethnic churches called Ethnic Blends. I’ll be going back and forth with Mark about his experiences and thoughts as the pastor of a multi-ethnic church and sending the final interview of…
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Why the Multi-ethnic Church Matters
The following is guest post written by Edith Michmerhuizen, a friend and co-worker in mission at New Community in Bronzeville. I found myself saying “Yes!” repeatedly while reading these paragraphs and I hope you’ll consider carefully the points Edith is making. As always, your charitable thoughts, questions, and ideas in response to this post are…
David W. Swanson 