Service

Mike on January 25th, 2011

This is nice — after the terrorist bombing in the Moscow yesterday, people offered help to those stranded at the airport. The people holding signs are offering free rides to the subway or to the city.

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Mike on March 1st, 2010

A friend recently sent this.  It expresses well our attitude towards service: True Service In his classic book Celebration of Discipline, Richard Foster devotes a chapter to the discipline of service, modeled after the radical example of Jesus. In the following excerpt, he contrasts a self-serving version of service with God’s version, urging us to [...]

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Mike on August 23rd, 2009

Here is a series of videos with Christopher Hitchens and Robert Service discussing Trotsky, whose actions 100 years ago continue to affect millions (if not billions) of people around the world.  I hesitate to put Hitchens on our site, yet there is value in hearing other points of view. I’ve read quite a few of [...]

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Mike on December 19th, 2008

Stoneworks continues to expand its ministry in Montenegro.  In May, we’ll send a team from the Wesley Foundation at the University of Georgia. These students will help the local church in a variety of ways.  We plan again to send a team to help run a youth camp in July.  We also hope to support [...]

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