Head, Heart, and Hand’s Article Summary in Karen ခိၣ်,သးဒီးစုတဖၣ် ခီဖျိ Dr. Marvin Lorenzana တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်န့ၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်ဂ့ၢ်လၢယအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဘၣ်ယိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. မ့ၢ်မတၤအမူအဒါအိၣ်လၢတၢ်ဂ့ၢ်အံၤ လဲၣ်.ကျိၤကွာ်အဂ့ၤကတၢၢ်လၢတၢ်ကသူအီၤလၢတၢ်ကမၤအါထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်မ့ၢ်မနုၤလဲၣ်, ဒီးဘၣ်မနုၤအဃိ လီၢ်က၀ီၤတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်ဘၣ်ဂဲၤလိာ်တၢ်လၢတၢ်ကကဲထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်ဂ့ၢ်၀ီဂ့ၤဂ့ၤလဲၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်သံကွၢ်သ့ၣ်တဖၣ်အံၤမ့ၢ်တၢ်အကါဒိၣ်ဖဲပမ့ၢ်ဃုထၢလၢတၢ်ကဟံးထီၣ်ဖီၣ်ထီၣ်ယွၤအတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤအခါန့ၣ်လီၤ. ယ့ၣ်ရှူးတဟဲလီၤလၢဟီၣ်ခိၣ်ထဲဒၣ်လၢတၢ်ကဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်တၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်န့ၣ်ဘၣ်. အ၀ဲဟဲလီၤ၀ဲဒၣ်လၢတၢ်ကဒုးအိၣ် ထီၣ်တၢ်ဟူးတၢ်ဂဲၤတခါဖဲအပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်မၤအိၣ်ထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်အဂၤတဖၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်မၤကဲထီၣ်အပျဲၢ် အဘီၣ် တဖၣ်,တၢ်မၤဘျါပှၤဆူးပှၤဆါ,ပှၤလၢအသၣ်၀ံၤသၣ်စ့ၤလၢနီၢ်ခိဒီးနီၢ်သးန့ၣ်တၢ်လုၢ်အီၣ်လုၢ်အီအီၤ, ပှၤလၢတၢ် တ ဂ့ၤတဘၣ်ဒိးအီၤတဖၣ်တၢ်မၤဘျါက့ၤအီၤဒီးပှၤတၢ်ဒဲးဘးဖိတဖၣ်မၤစၢၤဒုးဘျးစဲအီၤဒီးယွၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. သနာ်က့, ပတၢ်အိၣ်ဖှိၣ်တဖၣ်ညီနုၢ်သူ၀ဲဒၣ်တၢ်ကဲအပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်အကျိၤအကျဲလၢတလီၤသူၣ်ပိၢ်သး၀းလၢအပ ညိၣ်လီၤဆူၣ်ဆူၣ်လၢအပာ်တၢ်သ့ၣ်ညါနၢ်ပၢၢ် လၢတၢ်ဆီတလဲခဲလၢာ်ခဲဆ့ဃုာ်ဒီးပှၤကူပှၤကညီအဖီခိၣ်လၢအ လဲၤလိၤလိၤဆူတၢ်မၤဘီမုၢ်အတၢ်မၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်ညီနုၢ်အခီပညီမ့ၢ်၀ဲတၢ်ထီၣ်တီၤဒၢးတၢ် မၤလိန့ၣ်လီၤ.တၢ်ကဲထီၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်လၢယ့ၣ်ရှူးသူတ့ၢ်၀ဲဒၣ်မ့ၢ်၀ဲတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိလၢအအိၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဖံးတၢ်မၤတခါအပာ် ဃုာ် “ခိၣ်, သး, စုတဖၣ်” န့ၣ်လီၤ. ခိၣ်သၣ်ဃံ. ယ့ၣ်ရှူးမ့ၢ်၀ဲသရၣ်တဂၤလၢအနၢ်ပၢၢ်တၢ်အါမံၤအါကလုာ်အတၢ်ဘၣ်ထွဲဘျးစဲလိာ်အသးဒီးမ့ၢ်၀ဲဒၣ် ဒ်ယူဒၤဖိတၢ်ဘါအရၤဘံတဂၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ယ့ၣ်ရှူးပညိၣ်လီၤ၀ဲဒၣ်လၢအပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်အ “ခိၣ်” မ့ၢ်ဒ်သိး အ၀ဲသ့ၣ်ကနၢ်ပၢၢ်ဘီမုၢ်အသီတခါကဟဲ၀ဲဒၣ်အဂ့ၢ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. ဒ်န့ၣ်အသိး, ယ့ၣ်ရှူးပညိၣ်လီၤ၀ဲဒၣ်လၢအပျဲၢ်အ ဘီၣ်တဖၣ် “အသး”န့ၣ်လီၤ. သး. ယ့ၣ်ရှူးဆီတလဲအပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်လၢအမ့ၢ်တ့ၢ်ပတီၢ်မုၢ်ပှၤမၤညၣ်ဖိဆူပှၤမၤန့ၢ်ပှၤကညီအသးသမူန့ၣ် လီၤ. လၢတၢ်ကမၤတၢ်အံၤအဂီၢ်, ယ့ၣ်ရှူးဆီတလဲကွံာ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်အသးလၢအဆီၣ်တခူထီၣ်တၢ်တဖၣ်လၢတၢ် အဒွဲပူၤန့ၣ်လီၤ. ယ့ၣ်ရှူးနဲၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်ဒီးအတၢ်လဲၤခီဖျိတဖၣ်လၢအကကဲထီၣ်ခိၣ်နၢ်လၢအဂ့ၤတဖၣ် န့ၣ်လီၤ. အ၀ဲမၤစၢၤအပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်လၢအကပာ်အနီၢ်တဂၤတၢ်အဲၣ်ဒိးလၢအကပၤဒီးပာ်လီၤပှၤအဂၤအတၢ်အဲၣ်ဒိးလၢအမဲာ်ညါ န့ၣ်လီၤ. အ၀ဲဒုးနဲၣ်အပျဲၢ်အဘီၣ်တဖၣ်လၢတၢ်လၢယွၤအဘီအမုၢ်န့ၣ်တမ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢအဘၣ်ဃးဒီးတၢ်လၢ အမ့ၢ် “ယၤ”န့ၣ်ဘၣ်. ဒီးယ့ၣ်ရှူးသိၣ်လိအ၀ဲသ့ၣ်လၢအကဒုးအိၣ်ထီၣ်ကျဲတဖၣ်လၢအဟဲစိာ်တၢ်လၤကပီၤဒီးတၢ် စံးဘျုး စံးထီၣ်ပတြၢၤဆူယွၤအအိၣ်န့ၣ်လီၤ. သနာ်က့, ထဲ”ခိၣ်” ဒီး “သး”န့ၣ်တလၢပှဲၤဘၣ်. စုတဖၣ်. တၢ်ဆိကမိၣ်လၢအဘၣ်ဒီးတၢ်ဆီၣ်တခူထီၣ်သးန့ၣ်မ့ၢ်တၢ်လၢအကါဒိၣ်လီၤ.… Read More
Head, Heart, and Hands’ Article Summary in Laotian ຫົວ, ຫົວໃຈ, ແລະມື By Dr. Marvin Lorenzana ຄຳວ່າອັກຂາສາວົກເປັນຄວາມກັງວົນຂອງຂ້ອຍ. ໃຜເປັນຜູ້ຮັບຜິດຊອບສິ່ງນີ້, ອັນໃດແມ່ນການປະຕິບັດທີ່ດີທີ່ສຸດໃນການທີ່ຈະເພີ່ມທະວີອັກຂາສາວົກ, ແລະເປັນຫຍັງຄຣິສຕະຈັກທ້ອງຖິ່ນຈຶ່ງພົບຄວາມຫຍຸ້ງຍາກທີ່ຈະເຮັດຫນ້າທີ່ເປັນອັກຂາສາວົກທີ່ດີ? ນີ້ແມ່ນຄຳຖາມພື້ນຖານຈຳເປັນຖ້າພວກເຮົາເລືອກທີ່ຈະຍອມຮັບເອົາພາລະກິດຂອງພຣະເຈົ້າ. ພະເຢຊູບໍ່ໄດ້ມາເພື່ອເປີດຕົວແຕ່ຄຣິສຕະຈັກ. ພຣະອົງຍັງໄດ້ມາເປີດຕົວການເຄື່ອນໄຫວເພື່ອໃຫ້ອັກຂາສາວົກເຮັດໃຫ້ຄົນເປັນອັກຂາສາວົກດ້ວຍ. ອັກຂາສາວົກໄດ້ຖືກສ້າງຂຶ້ນ, ຄົນເຈັບປ່ວຍໄດ້ຮັບການປິ່ນປົວ, ຜູ້ທີ່ຫິວໂຫຍທາງຮ່າງກາຍແລະທາງວິນຍານໃດ້ຮັບອາຫານ, ຄົນທີ່ຖືກຄອບຄອງໃດ້ຮັບການປິ່ນປົວ, ແລະຄົນບາບໄດ້ຖືກນຳມາຮ່ວມສຳພັນເຂົ້າກັບພຣະເຈົ້າ. ເຖິງຢ່າງໃດກໍ່ຕາມ, ຄຣິສຕະຈັກຂອງພວກເຮົາມັກຈະໃຊ້ການເປັນອັກຂາສາວົກທີ່ມີຊື່ສຽງເຊິ່ງເນັ້ນໜັກເຖິງຄວາມຮູ້ກ່ຽວກັບການ-ປ່ຽນແປງທັງໝົດຂອງການເປັນຄົນທີ່ນຳໄປສູ່ການເຮັດວຽກງານຂອງອານາຈັກຂອງພຣະເຈົ້າ. ສ່ວນຫລາຍການເປັນອັກຂາສາວົກໝາຍເຖິງພຽງແຕ່ການເຂົ້າຫ້ອງຮຽນເທົ່ານັ້ນ. ຄວາມຈິງການເປັນອັກຂາສາວົກຂອງພຣະເຢຊູແມ່ນໄດ້ໃຊ້ປະສົບການທີ່ຫ້າວຫັນທີ່ກ່ຽວຂ້ອງກັບ“ ຫົວ, ຫົວໃຈ, ແລະມື.” ຫົວ. ພຣະເຢຊູເປັນຄູສອນທີ່ກ່ຽວຂ້ອງຄືກັບພວກອາຈານຊາວຢິວ. ພຣະເຢຊູມຸ່ງໃສ່“ຫົວ” ຂອງພວກອັກຂາສາວົກຂອງພຣະອົງເພື່ອໃຫ້ພວກເຂົາເຂົ້າໃຈເຖິງການສະເດັດມາຂອງອານາຈັກໃໝ່. ແຕ່ພຣະເຢຊູຍັງແນໃສ່ຫົວໃຈຂອງພວກລູກສິດຂອງພຣະອົງ. ຫົວໃຈ. ພຣະເຢຊູໃດ້ປ່ຽນອັກຂາສາວົກຂອງພຣະອົງຈາກຊາວປະມົງທຳມະດາໃຫ້ເປັນຜູ້ຫາມະນຸດ. ເພື່ອເຮັດສິ່ງນີ້ພຣະເຢຊູໄດ້ປ່ຽນຄວາມຕັ້ງໃຈພາຍໃນຂອງພວດເຂົາ. ພຣະອົງໄດ້ແນະນຳປະສົບການຂອງພວກເຂົາໃຫ້ກາຍເປັນຜູ້ນຳທີ່ດີ. ພຣະອົງໄດ້ຊ່ວຍພວກເຂົາໃຫ້ຖິ້ມຄວາມເຫັນແກ່ຕົວແລະເອົາໃຈໃສ່ຄົນອື່ນກ່ອນ. ພຣະອົງໄດ້ສະແດງໃຫ້ພວກເຂົາເຫັນວ່າອານາຈັກຂອງພຣະເຈົ້າບໍ່ກ່ຽວກັບ“ຕົວເຮົາເອງ”. ແລະພຣະເຢຊູຝຶກສອນພວກເຂົາໃຫ້ນຳພາແນວທາງຕ່າງໆທີ່ນຳເອົາລັດສະໝີພາບແລະກຽດຕິຍົດມາສູ່ພຣະເຈົ້າ. ແຕ່“ຫົວ” ແລະ“ຫົວໃຈ” ຍັງບໍ່ພຽງພໍ. ຂ່າວປະເສີດແມ່ນເຕັມໄປດ້ວຍຕົວຢ່າງທີ່ພຣະເຢຊູໄດ້ເຊື້ອເຊີນພວກລູກສິດຂອງພຣະອົງໃຫ້ມືຂອງພວກເຂົາເ-ປື້ອນໃນວຽກງານການເຜີຍແຜ່ພະທຳ. ພວກເຂົາໃດ້ລ້ຽງ, ໃດ້ປະກາດ, ໃດ້ປິ່ນປົວ, ແລະໃດ້ບັບຕິສະມາຝູງຄົນ.ເປັນຫຍັງຈຶ່ງເປັນການຍາກສຳລັບຄຣິສຕະຈັກອາເມລິກາທີ່ຈະເຫັນສິ່ງນີ້ໃດ້? ຄວາມລົ້ມເຫຼວທີ່ບໍ່ຍອມຮັບເອົາທັງສາມຢ່າງໄດ້ສ້າງຄວາມອ່ອນແອໃຫ້ກັບອັກຂາສາວົກໃນຄຣິສຕະຈັກ. ພຣະເຢຊູມຸ່ງເເນໃສ່ຫົວ, ຫົວໃຈແລະມືຂອງອັກຂາສາວົກຂອງພຣະອົງເອງແລະພວກເຮົາກໍ່ຕ້ອງເຮັດເຫມືອນກັນ.
LMC’S MISSION for many languages~Espanish Spanish Speaking Congregations By Felixa Valladares de Kunkle I realized some time ago that being able to speak Spanish is a great privilege, especially when the Latin American Spanish-speaking community is growing within the United States and especially within LMC. The language contains so much of the richness and fullness of the Spanish culture that it feels like being with family or at home when… Read More
LMC’s Mission for Many Languages~French FRENCH AFRICAN CONGREGATIONS By Pastor Jean Bruno Nzey At the Evangelical Center for Revival, people from seven French-speaking countries gather to worship together. They are Haiti, Congo-Brazaville, Democratic Republic of Congo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Cameroon, and the Central African Republic. When English speakers are present, we are equipped to provide a translation. We are very vocal in our worship and praise of the Lord. We… Read More
An Orange Well-Squeezed by Pledge Gwamzhi with introduction and conclusion by Paris Rossiter Pledge and his family attend Capital Christian Fellowship after moving from Nigeria to the USA, now almost 10 years. He and his family are very active in the life of the congregation. His older sister is a worship leader. His older brother has served on the worship and production technical team. His parents teach classes,… Read More
Call: a Journey, not an Event by: Keyla Flores I am from Honduras, Central America. I work as a missionary for the Shalom Council of Evangelical Churches (CIES) in Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico. God called me to missions at 12 years old during a service at my elementary school in Honduras. Understanding God’s call on my life has been a process. As a youth, I struggled to stay focused on God’s call… Read More
Learning from Leader Survey We identified the following themes in the responses from the leader survey taken in the Spring in response to changes from Covid-19. Congregations moved from expressions of “Sunday-centered church” to “life-centered church” (centralization to decentralization). Congregations responded with nimbleness and the ability to adapt as we need to do so. Some congregations were wrestling with core changes before the pandemic and are seeing this as… Read More
The Hard Part is the Journey By Ashley Litwiller I have spent a solid portion of my life in or beside the water. I have some bad memories related to it. I had a cousin named Jonah who almost drowned. One of my first relationships ended beside the water. And I feel the frustration of never learning the art of slalom skiing. On the positive side and perhaps more importantly, water… Read More
Celebration of Church Life 2020 By Brinton Rutherford. Despite months of planning and an incredible team, COVID 19 required the cancelation of Celebration of Church life in April of 2020. In these pages, you receive a brief introduction to what would have happened with website links to handout materials and summaries of the speaker content, which also can be watched in their entirety online at the LMC website or… Read More
On Being a Watchman by Raquel Rivera “As each night watch begins, get up and cry out in prayer. Pour your heart out face-to-face with the Master.” —Lamentations 2:19 Our second son, Judah, was born at the start of a global pandemic. As for many living in the United States, our daily way of living was put on pause and our calendar plans were stomped on. The quarantine bummed… Read More