Can you help me? (8)

Can you help me? (8)

This is the eighth blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?   “Power and False Generosity”   Bryan Nixon said this in a reflection on Martin Buber’s book, I and Thou and how it applies to the therapeutic context between patient […]

Can you help me? (7)

This is the seventh blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?   The Spiritual Formation of Asking for Help   I love helping people. I love giving to things that break my heart. I love giving advice to people. One problem […]

What do you do? #joininglives

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   I am often asked the question, “What do you do at Church on the Street (now REMERGE)?”   This is a complicated question to answer, there are many facets of “what I do.” Since we are called “Church on the Street”, the assumption is often (or even always) […]

Can you help me? (6)

This is the sixth blog in a series of ten by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?   “Amplify the Voice”   Principle Four: Amplifies the voice and gifts of our neighbors   There is this false narrative that many Christians and particularly mega-churches fall prey to when […]

Can you help me? (5)

This is the fifth blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?   Principle Three: The Power Shifts   I still remember the look on his face when I asked him to pray for me. We had just completed the […]

Can you help me? (4)

This is the third blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me? Principle Two: Awakens something in the vulnerable.   When I first began to ask the vulnerable for help I noticed that it did something in them. It literally […]

Can you help me? (3)

This is the third blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?”   Principle One: The Model of Jesus   The whole of point of being a Christian is to grow into the image and likeness of Christ as God […]

Can you help me? (2)

This is the second blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?”   The world is divided racially, culturally, socio-economically. The world as such is not the way God intended it. In the beginning of Genesis we see a world that […]

Can you help me?

This is the first blog in a series of ten (yes ten) by South Atlanta Community Facilitator, Dan Crain from a mini-book called, “Can you help me?”   Can you help me?   This lone question changed everything for me.   I was in Orlando, FL having just finished a Masters of Intercultural Ministries degree […]

Who is the neighbor here?

By Sylvia Broome, Central Atlanta Community Facilitator   It was December 26, a gray and rainy day.   I’m out and about, running errands in a local shopping center. Christmas decorations, so cheery just the day before now look tired. The crowds are thin, and those shopping are moving quickly through, the friendly greetings of just […]