by Geoff Hsu | Dec 11, 2020 | Church, City, Formation, Leadership, Mission |
Flourish San Diego Receives Grant to Help Pastors Thrive December 7, 2020 Flourish San Diego has received a grant of more than $220,000 to extend its work to support the well-being and resiliency of pastors and church planters. It is part of Lilly Endowment Inc.’s...
by Geoff Hsu | Sep 28, 2019 | Calling, Church, City, Culture, Mission, Shalom |
It was a beautiful Friday morning to be on the campus of Point Loma Nazarene University. We have been in conversation with the good people with the Center for International Development. Together, we have shared a common desire to serve the poor by pairing our good...
by Markus Watson | Mar 27, 2018 | Big Story, Calling, Church, City, Collective, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Gospel, Greenhouse, Leadership, Mission, Shalom, Theology, Vocation |
Why does Flourish San Diego exist? What do we hope to accomplish? In this post, I simply want to lay out as clearly as I can why we do what we do. It’s All Because of Jesus Before I say anything else about Flourish San Diego, I have to begin by saying that...
by Markus Watson | Jan 24, 2018 | Calling, City, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Mission, Vocation |
Vocational Connection Groups—which I began to discuss in this post and in this post—can be the key that unlocks a church’s ability to discern how God is calling them to engage their community. I call them Vocational Connection Groups because they involve three...
by Markus Watson | Jan 15, 2018 | Calling, Church, City, Culture, Discipleship, Formation, Gospel, Vocation |
It’s so important for God’s people to be paying attention to what God is doing out in the world. In the next few posts, I’ll explain how we can discover how God is at work ahead of us by means of something I call Vocational Connection Groups. But before we dig into...
by Markus Watson | Dec 29, 2017 | Big Story, Church, City, Culture, Gospel |
As we enter the New Year we recognize a few things: 2017 Was A Tough Year No doubt, there was a lot of good that happened in 2017. But there was also a lot of tragedy. Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Jose destroyed hundreds of homes and shattered countless lives while...