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Top blogs outside of the US
All of this global thinking has me on a quest to learn more, and I could use your help.
I’m interested in compiling a list of the top blogs authored by Christian pastors or church leaders who are not living in the US. If you can help me by commenting with the blog URL and country…I’ll organize the list and make it available to everyone.
I really appreciate the help.
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I highly recommend Adrian Warnock’s blog:
http://www.adrian.warnock.info
He’s a great guy who writes great essays on great topics. It’s a great read! :) (And, no, I don’t know the guy, I just like his blog!)
nakedpastor out of Canada
I’m sure he’ll get mentioned again, but I’m always reading Andrew Jones.
he’s at http://www.tallskinnykiwi.com and lives on the Orkney (sp?) Islands
Also, Jordan Cooper in Canada
http://www.jordoncooper.com
Check out James Petticrew, Mosaic Edinburgh, xanga.com/JamesPetticrew
http://www.steveaddison.net/ - church planter and movement watcher in Australia
http://www.theforgottenways.org/ - alan hirsch of Shaping of Things to Come fame
second try.
UK
andrew jones - missionary/ vagabond / networker -UK - tallskinnykiwi.typepad.com
Jonny Baker - pastor- church planter - jonnybaker.blogs.com/
Steve Collins - church planter / pastor - smallritual.blogs.com/
Maggi Dawn - Preist - maggidawn.typepad.com/
Mark Russell - CEO of a church planting ministry and he’ on the Archbishops council - russellmark.blogspot.com/
Malaysia
Sivin Kit - pastor / malaysia -www.sivinkit.net/
Africa
Various pastors - emergent africa - post-colonial church planing in africa http://www.emergentafrica.com/amahoro/ (also: http://www.amahoro-africa.org/)
Canada
Jordon Cooper - Canada - http://www.jordoncooper.com
Mark Dowds - An Irishman in Canada - not a pastor strictly speaking- markdowds.typepad.com/
Len Hjalmarson - http://www.nextreformation.com
Jamie Arpin Ricci - pastor - emergentvoyageurs.blog.com
Aussies
Alan Hirsh - Australia - http://www.theforgottenways.org/blog
thank you all…keep them coming.
Mark…you get extra credit!
Addison Tweedy http://www.addisontweedy.com
Former US campus minister and youth pastor, was a part of a church restart in Austria and now part of a church plant in Budapest, Hungary.
We hope to move to France this fall to get started.
http://www.kenwitcher.com
We are planting a church in Paris, France and working to connect the the few churches effectively reaching people to network to raise send out new church planters. The organization is called Catalyst France.
Steve Murrell in Manila Phillipines. stevemurrell.typepad.com, smurrell.multiply.com, he pastors a church of around 25,000 in Manila, that runs about 52 services a weekend in 13 locations.
Hi Bobby, I’m a small group leader and a Swerve daily reader. You can find me at: http://www.pcnotas.com.br
I’m from Brazil, so my blog is only in portuguese. A great opportunity to start to learn portuguese. ;)
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Paulo,
If you’ll help me…maybe I can actually learn enough Portuguese to get around on your blog.
So you lead a small group at LifeChurch.tv?
I lead a small group at my local church, Comunidade de Vida Cristã (Christian Life Community), in São Paulo/Brazil.
So… lesson #1:
Portuguese: “Eu sou um seguidor de Crito”
English: “I’m a Christ follower” :D
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Isso é grande!
I wasn’t sure if you happened to be one of our LifeGroup leaders for our Internet Campus.
Sidenote: if you are ever interested in translating some of our Swerve posts into Portuguese…let me know via email.
Obrigado!
I lead Riverview Church in Perth Australia and run a group Blog that like the church http://www.riverviewchurch.com and our Business Breakfasts http://www.bbl.com.au merge Secular and Sacred, so stuff on mega church, multi campus stuff plus coffee blog, french cooking, fitness, humour…note correct spelling! And ephemera…www.philbaker.net
http://blog.myspace.com/yonmon
[...] No começo do mês o pastor Bobby Gruenewald fez um convite aos leitores do blog Swerve para que comentassem o post “Top blogs outside of the US” citando endereços de blogs de pastores ou líderes que não vivem nos EUA. [...]
Senior Pastor and prolific blogger Joey Bonifacio of Victory Christian Fellowship - The Fort in the Philippines; Wolfi Eckleben of London.
http://joeybonifacio.blogspot.com/
http://wolfinlondon.wordpress.com/
Not sure if its too late to post this, but John Sweetman, who is a former senior pastor of a church of 800, and principle of Malyon College (a theological college) has just launched a blog for young leaders in QLD Australia.
http://www.neoleader.org
It includes stuff that is happening in Australia, plus links to stuff that others have written on the web. John is equally as comfortable in the emerging church scene as he is in the more mega-church kind of scene.
This is just a small part of an entire leadership strategy John has to raise up hundreds of young spiritual leaders all over QLD, Australia.
John currenly serves as senior pastor of City Life Christian Church - a church reaching unchurched young adults which meets at a university in the city.
Ps. Also your campus pastor Miles emailed me recently when he found out I was from Brisbane. Apparently he is from the Gold Coast QLD. He was very encouraging.
[...] first time to play, and I finished a more than respectable 5th out of 12. More importantly, Pastor Joey Bonifacio, who trash-talked me like there was no tomorrow, finished dead last. Hahaha, take that, Sir! (Just [...]
I enjoy
finkeldejohn.blogspot.com (assorted stuff, good mix)and
thegadgetpastor.com (tech tips from a pastors perspective)
Australia