“Them” And “Us”

How do you feel when you see an image of a Muslim praying, like this one?  And how do you feel when you see an image of someone like Mother Theresa praying? If you are anything like me, as a Christian, you might feel separate or even negative towards the first...

10 Everyday Summer Kick Starts To Missional Living

It’s the little things that count. True love in the small things. Living missionally is not difficult in the “skill” sense but it is difficult in the “make-it-a-priority” sense. Small, simple, consistent acts of love add up and give God more grace space in which to...

Jesus & “The Well Curve”

I first learned of the “bell curve” as a high school student. Our statistics teacher, an eccentric white haired Irishman, taught us the distribution model that described how a set of results could be adjusted to create a grouping around the average result....

A Flowing Ministry

“Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.”  Mark 1:35 “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”  (Thomas A....

Why Invest In A Missional Movement?

As believers, we are all called to stewardship… of our time, our talents, our treasures. Within CA, we are passionate about stewardship; about being clear that everything God has given us is his, and that he might ask us to do something with “his” possessions that...