What is “Shalom” anyway? And what is this blog about?
Shalom Means Peace … And So Much More. Shalom is the Hebrew word for holistic peace — peace that permeates every aspect of our lives and our being. It is a word used throughout scripture to describe the absolute joy, flourishing, fulfillment, and bliss found in the presence of God. It also conveys the beautiful, interdependent relationships that God’s people eternally share with Him, each other, and all of creation.
Nothing Broken… Nothing Missing… The way things are supposed to be. Shalom is what has come into the world through Christ, and is made complete when Christ returns and fully eradicates sin and death forever. God is glorified as Shalom happens. We have a mission as God’s people to discover and display the Shalom of God’s Kingdom to this hurting world by faithfully proclaiming the Gospel in WORD and DEED as we share life with our neighbors. This blog documents one Kingdom Family’s journey to Shalom…
Commissioned to go “plant a church”…. Sent out to go “help” an impoverished, underresourced community…. Called to serve in a place that most would not choose… What does “plant a church” even mean? What are the measurable results to “show” for your work? How do you know if you are even making a difference? […]
Three years ago, my “world” lay in shatters. My life purpose was utterly uprooted. My heart was strewn out, torn from the people and place I loved most deeply. (see below) And God was sending our family to the place I swore I’d never go….to the Bible-belt South with church on every […]
Hostess. Yes. Hostess with the Mostess. Definitely not. It was the “dinner party” of supposed disaster. Somehow we had managed to invite three different families over for dinner who 1. had never met each other 2. come from completely different walks of life and 3. had nothing in common with each other. Danny was […]
That Friday afternoon we sat there on the couch. The old leather one with the tear in it from its previous life in the home from which it had been donated. “Bible Man” played in the back room for energetic little boys who love a good battle. Meanwhile, Mommy and Miss Sandy […]
There was a plea for prayer…. and there was the answer. And if a picture is worth a thousand words… it saves me a lot of typing… Christmas Party with classmates at Atlanta Westside Charter School “But to each one of us, grace has been given as Christ apportioned it…” Eph. 4:7 And to […]
I know many of you have asked me personally about the different events we had at Christmas and, yes, I am STILL compiling the pictures and getting the update done…But in the meantime, here are some snapshots of what has happened since those events, which, in my humble opinion are some great excuses for why […]
I didn’t want to do it. I didn’t go looking for it. But He kept bringing the ideas to me. And kept confirming it through random conversations I would have…. ~”The girls in this school really need women pouring into their lives.” one staff woman says to me. ~Out of twenty kids, when asked what […]
Danny and Kimberly Iverson met while in college and fell in love 3 years later while Danny was leading an inner-city ministry in Newark, NJ. Their hearts for the disinvested spaces of society, and the conviction of God’s love and redemptive purposes for such places, drew them together on mission and continues to be a driving force as they follow God’s calling to discover and display an expression of the body of Christ that is focused on reconciliation and renewal. They love being on mission with their family of eight children – Daniel Josiah, Trinity, Katy-Grace, Benjamin Zion, Malachi, Judah, Gwennalyn and Joel. They currently live in Atlanta, GA and are sharing life with their neighbors and leading a house church and community development organization called Restore Life. Sign up to receive their newsletter.
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