I just got a call from a board member of our sponsoring church in Olathe, Christ Community CON. Their board decided to donate next month's Good Neighbor offering to our Love Wins ministry. I know from my days at CCC that the Good Neighbor offering can raise anywhere from $500 to $2,500.
That is awesome!
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- Rage Against the Minivan: Learning to Parent Without Perfection
- A Different Mirror for Young People: A History of Multicultural America
- The Wind Through the Keyhole
- Song of Susannah
- The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution
- The Pioneers [the Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West]
- The New Confessions of An Economic Hit Man
- Divorce Care: Hope, Help, and Healing During and After Your Divorce
- Gulag: A History
- Escape from Paris: A True Story of Love and Resistance in Wartime France
- Confessions of an Economic Hitman
- Paris on Air
- A Short History of Reconstruction
- American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
- Atomised
- Season of Saturdays: A History of College Football in 14 Games
- How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
- No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II
- The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
- Paris: The Secret History
- Contemporary France: A Democratic Education
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
- Quiet Days in Clichy
- Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918
- When Paris Went Dark: The City of Light Under German Occupation, 1940-1944
- The History of Rome
- The Simple Path to Wealth: Your Road Map to Financial Independence and a Rich, Free Life
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- There's a God in my Closet
- Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
- Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
- Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
- To Lose a Battle: France 1940
- The Other Paris: The People's City, Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
- Nietzsche: A Very Short Introduction
- Paris, Paris: Journey into the City of Light
- 13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do
- Tough Stuff Parenting
Reading Lists
Books Completed in 2019
- The Hate You Give
- La France contemporaine
- Phèdre
- 100 poems classiques et contemporains
- La Parure et autres nouvelles
- L'Alouette
- Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed
- Divided by Faith: Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
- Paris in Stride
- A la recherche d'un emploi: Business French in a Communicative Context
- Exceptional Lives: Special Education in Today's Schools
- Psychology Applied to Teaching
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
- Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
- Five Nights in Paris: After Dark in the City of Light
- Montmartre: Paris's Village of Art and Sin
- The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris
- Saint-Germain-des-Pres: Paris's Rebel Quarter
- The Understanding by Design Guide to Creating High-Quality Units
- Psychology Applied to Teaching
- The Streets of Paris: A Guide to the City of Light Following in the Footsteps of Famous Parisians Throughout History
- The Bonjour Effect: The Secret Codes of French Conversation Revealed
- How Paris Became Paris: The Invention of the Modern City
- La Belle France: A Short History
- The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871
- Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, and the Outrage of Grace
- The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916
- The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla
- Seven Ages of Paris
- The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
- The Big History of Civilizations
- How the West Won
- The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass
- The History of White People
Books Completed in 2018
- The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands
- Rick Steve's Paris 2019
- One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression is Destroying our Democracy
- Teacher's Handbook: Contextualized Language Instruction
- Successful Classroom Management
- Paris: A Love Story
- A Year in Provence
- Just After Sunset
- The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
- All This Life
- Affirming Diversity
- The Zimzum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage
- White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of our Racial Divide
- Blitzed: Drugs in the Third Reich
- The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings
- Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink
- Good Christian Sex: Why Chastity Isn't the Only Option-And Other Things the Bible Says About Sex
- How Democracy Dies
- Getting to I Do: The Secret of Doing Relationships Right
- In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin
- You are a Badass
- Party of One: Truth, Longing, and the Subtle Art of Singleness
- The Things They Carried
- The Two Towers: Being the Second Part of the Lord of the Rings
- Single but Dating: A Field Guide to Dating in the Digital Age
- Iron John
- The Wounded Healer
- Next to the Last Vein
Books Completed in 2017
- Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
- Paris: The Secret History
- Four Things Women Want from a Man
- The Crucifixion of the Warrior God: Volume I
- The 25 Habits of Highly Successful Salespeople
- Mating in Captivity
- The Miracle Morning
- The Road
- War Dogs
- The Norman Conquest
- A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britian
- Eisenhower: A Life
- 1924: The Year that made Hitler
- The Quran in Context
- The Skeletons in God's Closet
- A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict
- One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Created Christian America
Books Completed in 2016
- Figthing Back the Right: Reclaiming American from the Attack on Reason
- L'Amant
- La Jalousie
- L'Etranger
- Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
- 21 Things I Wish My Broker Had Told Me
- The 7 Levels of Communication
- Un Coeur Simple
- American Presidents
- Rene et Atala
- Paris to the Moon
- Generous Justice
- We Too Sing America
- Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
- The Pity of War: Explaining WWI
- Seven Ages of Paris
- That Summer in Paris: Memories of Tangled Friendships with Hemmingway, Fitzgerland and Some Others
- The King of Kings County
- Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945
- The Book of Aron
- How to Travel the World on $50 a Day
- Sixty Million Frenchmen Can't be Wrong: Why we Love France but Hate the French
- The Guns of August
- Fates and Furies
- Sacred Cows: The Truth about Divorce and Marriage
- Home School Sex Machine
- Dark Places
- Abroad
- The New Demons
- The Political Illusion
- Gone Girl
- A Long Walk to Water
- All the Light We Cannot See
- The Girl on the Train
- The Paris Wife
- Stationary Bike
- Full Dark No Stars
- The Sun Also Rises
- Lisey's Story
- The Silent Wife
Books Completed in 2015
- No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the war through Afghan Eyes
- Hold Me Tight
- Afghanistan Declassified
- Sold
- Anna Karenina
- The King of Sports: Why Football Must be Reformed
- Night
- Water Buffalo Theology
- Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World
- A World Undone: The Story of the Great War, 1914-1918
- Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
- A Moveable Feast
- The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
- Don't Know Much about the Bible
- Rings, Swords and Monsters
- To End All Wars
- To Kill a Mockingbird
- A Separate Peace
- Renovating Holiness
- The Way We Work: How Faith Makes a Difference on the Job
- Scripture and the Authority of God: How to Read the Bible Today
- A Farewell to Mars: An Evangelical Pastor's Journey Toward the Biblical Gospel of Peace
- Simple Obsession
- UnLeader: Reimagining Leadership and Why We Must
- Humans of New York
- Touching Home: The Story of the Kansas City Royal's Dream Season and Run to the World Series
- A People's History of the French Revolution
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
- What Would you Do?
- Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace
- The Hobbit
- Blueprint for Armageddon
- The Rise of Christianity
- American Peril
- Charitable Discourse: Talking about the Things That Divide Us
Books Completed in 2014
- Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel
- Third Way Allegiance: Christian Witness in the Shadow of Religious Empire
- Fighting for Peace: Your Role in a Culture too Comfortable with Violence
- A History of Europe
- Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud
- More Coffee Shop Theology
- Coffee Shop Theology
- Mere Christianity
- Rick Steves Switzerland
- Rick Steves Italy
- Rick Steves Germany
- Rick Steves France
- Radical Compassion: Finding Christ in the Heart of the Poor
- Across the Spectrum: Understanding Issues in Evangelical Theology
- For Men Only
- Repenting of Religion: Turning from Judgment to the Love of God
- Christ and Violence
- The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap
- The Arabs: A Short History
- When War is Unjust: Being Honest in Just War Thinking
- Allah: A Christian Response
- Le Petit Prince
- A Passion for the Heart of God
- On the Way
- ReJesus: A Wild Messiah for a Missional Church
- Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA
- Colossians Remixed
- Elmer Gantry
- Metronome: A History of Paris from the Underground Up
Books Completed in 2013
- A Year of Living Biblically
- Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence
- Cross Cultural Servanthood
- The Return of the Prodigal Son
- French or Foe
- The Hidden Gardens of Paris
- American Creation
- Contemporary France
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Adams vs. Jefferson
- Don't Know Much about American History
- Oscar et la Dame Rose
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- Manna: The Call to Daily Dependence on God
- Transforming Violence
- Thin Places
- Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Old Regime and the French Revolution
- Contemporary France
- Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence
Books Completed in 2012
- The Story of God, The Story of Us: Getting Lost and Found in the Bible
- Everyday Justice
- Paris, I love you but You're Bringing Me Down
- Missional Moves
- The Hunger Games
- Reborn on the Fourth of July: The Challenge of Faith, Patriotism and Conscience
- Building a Discipleship Culture
- 1491: New Revelations on the Americas Before Columbus
- The War of the Lamb
- Getting Together
- Backwards: Created to Live Sent
- Prayers that Prevail for your Children
- Covenant and Kingdom
- Stuff Parisians Like
- The Hunger Games
- Farenheit 451
- The King Jesus Gospel
- The Tangible Kingdom
- Les Miserables
- The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe
- The Tangible Kingdom Primer
- When Presidents Lie
- Introducing the Missional Church
- The Myth of a Christian Nation
- 33 Questions About American History You're Not Supposed to Ask
- How God Became King
- Guns, Germs and Steel
- Enigma: The Battle for the Code
- Present Perfect: Finding God in the Now
- While America Sleeps
- Simply Jesus
- Ruthless Trust
- The Cross Shattered Christ
- Missional Small Groups
- The Blue Parakeet
- American Fascists
- What Every Person Should Know about WAr
- A Renegade History of the United States
- Blink
- Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of America
- Seven Deadly Sins: The Uncomfortable Truth
- The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
- 1776
- Questions to your Answers
- Missional Small Groups
- The Circle Maker: Praying Circles around Your Biggest Dreams and Greatest Fears
- Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America
- Violence
- The Old Testament Roots of Nonviolence
- Bringing Up Boys
Books Completed in 2011
- Radical Peace: People Refusing War
- Loving Our Kids on Purpose
- War and Peace
- There is No Time
- War Crimes and the American Conscience
- A Social History of the French Revolution
- Winston's War
- A Stranger to Myself
- The Old Man and the Sea
- Retribution: The Battle for Japan 1944-1945
- 1848: Year of Revolutions
- World Atlas of the Past: Volumes I-IV
- Teaching as Leadership: The Highly Effective Teacher's Guide to Closing the Achievement Gap
- Classroom Management and Culture
- Instructional Planning and Delivery
- Diversity, Community and Achievement
- The Power of Nonviolence
- Is God to Blame?
- Race, Real Estate and Uneven Development in Kansas City
- Grammaire Francaise
- Facile a Dire
- D'Accord
- Love Wins
- Travelling Mercies
- A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
- The Politics of Jesus
- Follow Me to Freedom
- Radical
- Generous Justice
Books Completed in 2010
- A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
- Three Cups of Tea
- Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
- Rethinking the Good War
- The Gutter
- Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
- A Votre Tour
- Crazy Love
- Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child
- The Powers that Be
- Engaging the Powers
- Jesus and Nonviolence: A Third Way
- Savage Inequalities
- So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore?
- Practicing Greatness
- Missional Renaissance
- Jesus Wants to Save Christians
- English Grammar for Students of French
- Horizons
- The Irrestible Revolution
- A Resilient Life
- Surprised by Hope
- The Divine Hours: Prayers for Springtime
- When You Run Out Of Fantastic, Persevere
- Scars and Stilettos
- The Prodigal God
- A Holy Passion
- A Holy Calling
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
- Wild at Heart
- The 5,000 Year Leap
- A People's History of the United States; 1492-Present
Books Completed in 2009
- When the Game is Over, it all Goes Back in the Box
- Emotionally Healthy Spirituality
- UnChristian
- Pagan Christianity
- The Kingdom Experiment
- The Dip
- Choosing Against War
- The Reason for God
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Jesus for President
- The Emotionally Healthy Church
- The Myth of a Christian Religion
- In the Name of Jesus
- Practicing His Presence
- Communicating for a Change
- Babywise
- Intuitive Leadership
- Choosing to Cheat
- No Perfect People Allowed
- Cross Cultural Servanthood
- Making Vision Stick
- Open Adoption: My Story of Love and Laughter
- Don't Waste Your Life
Books Completed in 2008
- Celebrating Adoption
- Emperors of Rome
- The Three Signs of a Miserable Job
- So You Don't Want to go to Church Anymore?
- Lies Teacher Told Me
- Confessions of a Pastor
- In the Name of Jesus
- A Resilient Life
- Contemplative Prayer
- God's Politics: Why the Left gets it wrong and the Right doesn't get it
- An Illustrated History of the First World War
- The Brothers Karamazov
- Simple Church
- Simply Christian
- The Shack
- Velvet Elvis
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Way to step up Christ Community! I am a proud member from there! They sent me out to help plant Trinity Family. THANKS GUYS! GOD BLESS!
-Derin-
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