Raise the Roof!

Raise the Roof!

Raise the Roof! Phase one classroom construction begins! We have great news! We are close to completing Phase One of our Mustard Seed Village construction! This weekend we will take the first step in putting a roof on our classroom in the Mustard Seed Village. A team of seven construction workers has volunteered their time to bolt 8x32 foot beams to ...

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Igniting the Divine Spark – part 2

Igniting the Divine Spark - part 2

-- by Cindy Todd -- I’ve been slow to write up a debrief, report, summary of the “Igniting the Divine Spark” workshop that I facilitated at Mustard Seed House on March 16. So here goes. The intent and the vision of the workshop was to help followers of Christ to recognize the divine light that lives within each of us: the light ...

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The question for this week: what are your creative ideas for making a little difference in your community 2013 to 2018?

The question for this week: what are your creative ideas for making a little difference in your community 2013 to 2018?

-- by Tom Sine -- I want you to take you back to 1970 one more time to meet a mentor and friend…Frank Herbert, author of Dune and a host of other compelling books. Dune was widely used as an environmental study book when it came out in the early 70s at the very beginning of that first environmental movement. What arrested our ...

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Companions in the Neighborhood

Companions in the Neighborhood

– by Andy Wade – What does it mean to become a companion in the neighborhood? Many of you know that I'm an avid gardener. You probably also know by now that the garden is one of my favorite places to talk with God. It's probably no surprise that, while sitting around tables at a gathering in southeast Portland a few ...

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Sustaining Life, Sustaining Faith for the Future

Sustaining Life, Sustaining Faith for the Future

May Newsletter - 2013 I am currently in New Haven Connecticut at the Overseas Ministry Study Center teaching a course on spiritual renewal. This yearly seminar is one of the most enriching and challenging I facilitate. Students come from across the globe. Methodist ministers from Myanmar and Korea sit together with Anglicans from Kenya and Ghana. Catholic sisters from the Philippines rub shoulders ...

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Wild Camano Tour!

Wild Camano Tour!

-- by Christine Sine -- The Wild Camano tour is over. On Saturday a small group of us gathered on the future site of the Mustard Seed Village on Camano island to tour the land, identify edible species and plant a beginning garden. It was an amazing experience. With the help of Nancy and Greg from Shambala Farms and Nursery we identified and ...

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Simplicity isn’t Simple.

Simplicity isn't Simple.

-- by Christine Sine -- For the last five year’s my husband, Tom and I have taken what we call the $2 challenge during the season of Lent. For at least one week of the season we restrict our food budget to $2 per person per day. It reminds us that half the world’s population still lives on less than $2 per ...

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Raise the Roof!

May 23, 2013
Mustard Seed Village classroom

Raise the Roof! Phase one classroom construction begins! We have great news! We are close to completing Phase One of our Mustard Seed Village construction! This weekend we will take the first step in putting a roof on our classroom in the Mustard Seed Village. A team of seven construction workers has volunteered their time [...]

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Igniting the Divine Spark – part 2

May 22, 2013
Ignite the Divine Spark!

– by Cindy Todd – I’ve been slow to write up a debrief, report, summary of the “Igniting the Divine Spark” workshop that I facilitated at Mustard Seed House on March 16. So here goes. The intent and the vision of the workshop was to help followers of Christ to recognize the divine light that [...]

Read the full article →

The question for this week: what are your creative ideas for making a little difference in your community 2013 to 2018?

May 17, 2013
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– by Tom Sine – I want you to take you back to 1970 one more time to meet a mentor and friend…Frank Herbert, author of Dune and a host of other compelling books. Dune was widely used as an environmental study book when it came out in the early 70s at the very beginning of [...]

Read the full article →

Companions in the Neighborhood

May 13, 2013
companion planting

– by Andy Wade – What does it mean to become a companion in the neighborhood? Many of you know that I’m an avid gardener. You probably also know by now that the garden is one of my favorite places to talk with God. It’s probably no surprise that, while sitting around tables at a [...]

Read the full article →

Sustaining Life, Sustaining Faith for the Future

May 10, 2013
Overseas Missions Study Center

May Newsletter – 2013 I am currently in New Haven Connecticut at the Overseas Ministry Study Center teaching a course on spiritual renewal. This yearly seminar is one of the most enriching and challenging I facilitate. Students come from across the globe. Methodist ministers from Myanmar and Korea sit together with Anglicans from Kenya and Ghana. Catholic [...]

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Wild Camano Tour!

May 9, 2013
Mustard Seed Village Garden

– by Christine Sine – The Wild Camano tour is over. On Saturday a small group of us gathered on the future site of the Mustard Seed Village on Camano island to tour the land, identify edible species and plant a beginning garden. It was an amazing experience. With the help of Nancy and Greg from [...]

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Simplicity isn’t Simple.

May 7, 2013
Planting tomatoes

– by Christine Sine – For the last five year’s my husband, Tom and I have taken what we call the $2 challenge during the season of Lent. For at least one week of the season we restrict our food budget to $2 per person per day. It reminds us that half the world’s population still [...]

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Since that first Earth Day April 22, 1970 how are you caring for God’s good creation?

April 30, 2013
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- by Tom Sine – Last week I wrote about watching Denis Hayes President of the Bullitt Foundation join Governor Jay Inslee and Mayor Mike McGinn cutting the ribbon to open the Bullitt Building, the greenest building in the US, here in Seattle Earth Day 2013. In 1970 Denis Hayes dropped out of the Kennedy [...]

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How are you celebrating the new creation during Earth Day 2013 and this Season of Easter?

April 23, 2013
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- by Tom Sine – Let me tell you what I did.  On this beautiful blue sky Earth Day here in Seattle I joined several hundred people in celebrating the dedication of the Bullitt Center, a six story 50,000 square foot building.  It is heralded at the greenest office building in America.  Both Governor Jay [...]

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Be Still!

April 22, 2013
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– by Andy Wade – I wrote this poem several years ago but it seemed somehow appropriate for Earth Day -perhaps we’re just to busy and distracted to notice or care.

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