Mission: Urban

Blog Posts from The Dunlevys

We put a deposit on a place to live today.  Nate has been working on all the paperwork this afternoon, and it will be a day or two maybe before we know for sure that everything is going to work out.  But still, it seems like we found a place!  It’s not at all what [...]

There are so many thing I wanted to pass on, I’ve just decided to do a day by day so I don’t forget anything.
Last Saturday:  We went out to Bosques in the afternoon to visit friends there.  It was strangely comforting to do something so incredibly familiar.  After all those trips to La Plata, I [...]

And okay, here we go! One month from today I’ll be back on the ground in Buenos Aires. You know, if you hadn’t known about all of the uncertainty and questions and doubt and decision making, you would look at this year and think that everything was going very smoothly according to schedule. [...]

I’m back from Germany and Charis 08. It was an amazing and historic week as brothers from all over the world came together for the dual purposes of celebrating the 300th anniversary of the Brethren movement and to meet to discuss the issues of church planting, leadership training and ‘integrated ministries’ (also known [...]

That’s the only thing I know how to say in German.  Does it still count?
Currently, I’m in Germany at the International Charis meetings for GBIM.   You can check out a daily update here.  The first couple of days have been exhuasting as jet lag and a full schedule (5 AM-11:30 PM yesterday) have us all [...]

I must say that if you have to spend some time in limbo, it sure is nice to do it in a warm summery place with lots of friends and family where your kids get to swim and pick berries and chase lightning bugs.  I feel really blessed…you know, at the same time as I [...]

I want to pass on this letter written by one of our church planters working in an international team in Argentina.  He says a lot of amazing things far better than I can.  I’ll highlight some of my favorite lines…
7 July 2008

On July 10 we will celebrate 5 months in Corrientes, which seems an [...]

I’ve been sitting here for about 5 minutes desperately racking my brain for some anecdote or observation that I could turn into a witty analogy for life, ministry, the federal reserve board, or whatever, and nothing is coming to mind. Today I find myself thinking about people that are important to me and wondering [...]

We had lunch yesterday with some friends and grilled out. Every time I see a grill, I get a tad homesick for Argentina and miss the delicious asados that I could be having if only I was on the other side of the world. In Argentina, they slow cook meat over coals for [...]

I missed posting yesterday because of a holiday, which is fairly appropriate given what I want to talk about. Today, I want to address the subject of rest. In our culture, the hard driver who never takes time off and puts in long days without end is lionized. We love people who work too [...]