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Web version  Like Forward Dear Friends, Greetings from Hong Kong where I’m leading 5 days of mentoring training this week.  The Lord has graciously opened doors with well-developed China ministry organizations that want to transform their ministries into mentoring organizations.  They are looking for partners and for training to make more strategic relational investments in key Chinese Christian leaders’ lives.  Today [...]

Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Forward My Five-OH! Birthday Jam! Thank you everyone for showering me with love on my 50th in February. Thank you to the many “birthday slaves” who helped out behind the scenes and performing. It was all fun, including a short but exhausting Zumba lesson, as seen in the photo above!  Thank you to those old and [...]

Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Thinking of you on the Saturday between. For most of my life I spent Easter season writing, directing, or performing some kind of re-enactment of the events of the passion week. I think it’s these many experiences that stir in my soul to an instinctive somber reflectiveness. Especially on the Saturday between Good [...]

Branching Out in Asia From James on Monday: I write this on my way to CRM Singapore’s initial venture into Vietnam. But you know what? Though this will be a great week, a few weeks ago I already had one of the best ministry weeks I have had in years! In February, I was invited [...]

Web version  |  Update preferences  |  Unsubscribe Like Tweet Forward Happy Chinese New Year from SINGAPORE! February is going to be a full month for Jim and Kimberly! We sure wish you could be here, but if you can’t, please keep us in your prayers! 1 Thank you Lord for these 5 years of having Andy Lim be part of [...]

Happy New Year from Asia! I write this email from Melaka, Malaysia where Jim and I are attending the annual Pastor’s Prayer summit and I am thinking about you and hoping your 2012 has begun with refreshed hope and courage. James sits near me working on a newsletter for CRMS to pastors and Christian leaders. [...]

When the Lord called us to Singapore in 1997, he gave us a vision for Singaporean Christian leaders building up leaders and churches in China and in the other countries of Asia. For the past 14 years, we have been personally investing in dozens and hundreds of leaders, who have reproduced into individuals and churches and ministries. [...]

Thanks for your prayers with us in September Jim: Pastors who are starting CRM in the Philippines have met for their 3rd retreat with individual coaching. One of them is pursuing a call to lead this emerging ministry focused on empowering with this mentoring model. In turn they empower others under their leadership to grow [...]

Let’s Get Together! Come hear and experience* what God is doing through Church Resource Ministries Singapore. 24th Sunday, 7-9pm RHCC Dessert (location TBD) 27th Wednesday, 7pm Journey Covenant BBQ at Jim & Beth Stewart’s 29th Friday, 5pm BBQ / 7pm Sharing at Bob & Megan Moore’s *PLUS 30th Saturday, 9am-12noon Family Seminar on Transitions.

Checklist for July X Arrange for House and Dog Sitter in Singapore X Borrow a car in California X Find someone who’ll let us hang out (live) with them in the South Bay X Get U.S. Summer Cell Phone numbers (below) Arrange meaningful get-togethers with friends. So, Californians, shall we get together? We’ll be staying [...]

Thank you for your prayers for us on Sunday and Monday. Kimberly and I felt them, and the participants felt them. I kept telling the Lord I would not be satisfied with a great training course unless there was a sense that he was there ministering to people. After the four sessions, I kept having [...]

This Sunday and Monday, Kimberly and I are taking our CRM Singapore trained spiritual mentors away for an overnight refresher course. 27 of us will be going to a resort from 2pm Sunday until 4pm Monday. These are people who have gone through a yearlong mentoring network, then taken 40 hours of training to become [...]

We’re all going to be students this year: Tyler in 9th grade at Marantha High School Cameron in 5th grade at Jefferson Elementary Kimberly studying theatre at Pasadena City College Jim studying spiritual leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary Now it’s time for us to get into a new study routine! Tyler is the first to [...]

Today we’re thankful for a healthy and happy 22 years together! We’re entering a new chapter, with the upcoming year in Pasadena. We arrived last week after 21 hours on the airplane from Singapore, with a 4-hour layover in-between in Tokyo. The grandparents were thrilled to meet us and take us to our new apartment [...]