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Friends and supporters, The Celebrate Outreach Saturday breakfast and the Missio Dei Sunday dinner continue.  Here is an update on the most recent meals: -Despite the end-of-the-month check arrivals, and despite rain Sunday evening, the number at the Celebrate Outreach breakfast and at the Missio Dei dinner remained about the same.  Last weekend the number of […]

Friends, volunteers, and supporters, The socially-distanced Celebrate Outreach Saturday morning breakfast and Missio Dei Sunday evening dinner continue, serving nutritious portable food in brown paper bags at our door.  We serve both meals at Praise the Lord Outreach Ministries, a storefront church at 900C MLK/9th Street South.  Breakfast begins at 8:30 AM and dinner begins at 5:30 PM. Here […]

By Missio Participant Gene Anderson It’s raining. It’s been raining for a couple days now. It let up for a bit this morning, but it stormed hard last night and it started again this afternoon. And the homeless citizens of St. Petersburg, Florida are still homeless. And stuck out in the rain. It’s Monday night […]

Here’s the thing, for a lot of us (including myself), if we stick to the popular version of prayer we’ve inherited from the 20th century, would rather show someone our bank statements than talk about our prayer life. I’d be more prone to talk about my struggle with my weight than confess I hate prayer. […]

Let’s be real, prayer is one of the biggest mysteries of the Christian faith. Yet in the mystery that prayer is, faithful Christians have practiced prayer for thousands of years. Just look at Tim Tebow and his token prayer after a good play…as if God somehow wants to let some football-millionaire score a touchdown over […]

Lent has historically been a time of repentance, contemplation, sacrifice, and abstention. In the early church the 40 days of Lent were a serious time of training. Candidates for baptism were taught prayer, they learned to fast, and studied the textual/oral tradition to best equip them to combat the deceptive powers in our world.  Lent […]

Last week we used the term, “kin-dom” in our litrugy at our Sunday gathering. I received a few question as to why, so here’s why… 1. Gender Inclusivity – A “king” is a male. But in God’s paradise there is, as Paul once said, “neither male nor female…” All people are made in the Divine image. […]

We here at the Missio Dei value communicating ideas. With the exchange of ideas comes inspiration, creativity and action.  We hold strongly to the idea of action and contemplation; seeing the two deeply connected to one another. This blog is a space where we hope to share ideas that come up during the week, on […]