sacred journeys

Kairos is located in the East Hollywood neighborhood. Within this neighborhood there are smaller little neighborhoods…. like Little Armenia, Thai Town, etc.

This last week on April 24th — Little Armenia commemorated the Armenian genocide of 1915.
Truth be told, I was not even aware of the Armenian genocide before we flew out a year ago, […]

Be still and know. Civilization is littered with unsolved problems, baffling impasses. The best minds of the world are at the end of their tether. The most knowledgeable observers of our condition are badly frightened. The most relevant contribution that Christians make at these points is the act of prayer -determined, repeated, […]

Incline your ear, O Lord, and answer me, for I am poor and needy. Preserve my life, for I am devoted to you; save your servant who trusts in you. You are my God; be gracious to me, O Lord, for to you do I cry all day long. Gladden the soul of your servant, […]

…last night, received this email from Amy (someone who is an integral part of Kairos). She went to Virginia Tech & she got this email/prayer request from a good friend in Virginia. She gave her okay to post this, to have more people praying for Sean.
—–Original Message—–
From: Amy xxxxxxx [mailto: xxxxxx@gmail.com ]
Sent: Thursday, April […]

There is advertising everywhere. And I mean everywhere.
As I was driving to an appointment in Hollywood, just a couple of blocks from the Kodak theater — I took some shots of all of the ad’s that are in your face in this city. Many of them, are on the sides of buildings — hundreds of […]

In his introduction to Psalms in The Message, Eugene Peterson notes something that I need to keep coming back to - that prayer is basic! It is not rocket science. He states:

“Prayer is elemental, not advanced, language. It is the means by which our language becomes honest, true and personal in response to God. It […]

Our family sends out a newsletter every month or two, to update people with our ministry here in LA. We just sent out our latest one, but I thought I would post it here also, in case you are not on our email list. (If you would like to be added to the email list, […]

We love living in LA so far, but there are many things we miss about MN. The most being good friends that we knew for a very long time. Some we stay in touch with, others (sadly) we don’t.
One such friend is Peter. If I remember correctly, I met him in the summer of 2000. […]