Marc's Short Messages

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

This will be my last blog post on Marc's Messages. After more than seven years of blogging I will leave this vehicle and move all my updates to Facebook and Twitter. If you want to stay in the loop of my daily life, family and ministry developments, make you sure to become a friend on Facebook or a follower on Twitter. These social media also provide more opportunity for interaction.

Is there nothing more to write about? Well, plenty of things I guess, but in the first five years of my blog I already processed a lot of issues related to church, missions and reformation. These entries can still be accessed through my (renewed) blog archives. Then two years followed with shorter updates in which I already moved to some form of microblogging. Shifting completely to Facebook and Twitter is a natural next step. What I have to say I can say in 140 characters, and save you some time on the way. If at some point in the future I will start writing again and perhaps open a new weblog, I will let you know through Facebook or Twitter.

If you are currently linking to this weblog, the please consider linking to my (renewed) personal homepage MarcvanderWoude.nl that has direct links to the social networks I'm part of, my projects, and my blog archives.

Thanks for visiting Marc's Messages over the years. I say goodbye now and hopefully see you on one of the other platforms.

Be blessed and be a blessing!

We started a group Twitter to feed the microblog on Simplechurch.eu. The inventory is going well, Jonathan added 30-50 new simple church networks on the site.

Peter turned 8 today. He got a Hohner harmonica and a Roman playmobil catapult. And oh yes, French fries!

We paid a visit to Oliver and Sabine Schippers. Oliver publishes the German edition of Joel News and also functions as a simple church facilitator in Germany.

Camping and cycling on the island of Texel for one and half day. David enjoyed being buried in the sand.

 

Just finished Jeff Jarvis' book 'What Would Google Do?' in which he challenges various societal fields like business, government, media and education to think more like Google. Although I think he could be more critical about Google, especially it's 'big brother' potential, the challenges are good. The Generation that grows up with Google and social media thinks differently and expects the world to change with them. A must-read for innovators, reformers and entrepreneurs. Promotional video clip here.

The Ahr river runs just in front of our tent. The boys are enjoying the fresh water and built a dam.

Camping with the family in Dernau, a nice little wine town in the Ahr valley south-west of Bonn, Germany.

We're still working on Simplechurch.eu, but this resource site for the simple church movement in Europe is now online. Check it out and mail us your feedback.

Caught up with Connect friend Gabi, who was at the international roundtable at SLOT in Poland. I couldn't make it this year. More pics here (if you have Facebook access).