• Laker’s pummel the Suns 119-98… and on the road, no less.

• Accent from the customer service rep. that I spoke with on the phone this morning - “Nueh Yeark”

• Isabel in bed by 9pm without any drama.

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“If you want to go fast, go alone.
If you want to go far, go together.”
- African proverb

When I began full-time, vocational ministry, fundraising seemed to be - if I can share quite honestly - (more…)

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From last weeks fellowship meeting, aka DEEP
You can read about the most recent update about the ministry - with news about how our student group is deepening, about our upcoming conference at Catalina, and the Cumbre event on Nov.16, as well as an update about Isabel - by clicking here.If you’d like to get the update automatically, sign up here to subscribe.

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This is one of the reasons I love being on staff, for being a part of stuff like this.

Poster for the upcoming “Cumbre de Alabanza” (Spanish for “Worship Summit”)When we started doing this event 5 years ago to serve Latino students around the Greater LA area, “we” was just Abner Ramos & I working together on the side, adding to our otherwise already full plates as campus staff, and our hopes were that a few students would come, maybe 30 or 40.

Now (more…)

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Our returning students gathered to help new students move-in.
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This book by Frantz Faron was recommended in the “Race & Identity in the New Testament” course that I’m taking. You can take a look at the google.books. I’m not sure when I’ll get to read it, but I’m curious…

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Saturday night I went to my 15th year high school reunion. At the end of reconnecting with old faces and catching up on missed stories, I came home on the Metro Goldline thinking a lot about the course of my days since high school, particularly asking questions about what is significant in what my life is about now vs. then. A natural response to reunions, wouldn’t you say.

My friend Nate Young - a post-high school friend - has done his own fair share of thinking on the lessons about what makes life significant. Below is the first in a series of guest post from Nate:

The metaphor of “life as journey” is in no way original. But I thought I might take this basic notion and impose on it a sort of progression in terms of how we think of our lives.

Play: When I was a kid, I would go over to people’s homes, and ring the doorbell. When an adult came to the door, my prepared question was simple, “Can so-and-so play?” Play. A magical, innocent word. Play marks no (more…)

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In her favorite place… el columpio
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That’s what the start of the school year feels like in campus ministry.  In addition to digging (and praying and meeting and asking…) my way out of big funding deficit, the beginning of the ministry year is in full effect… and classes don’t even start until next Thursday.

Last weekend we took part in IGNITE! - InterVarsity’s Southern California Evangelism conference.  Yesterday we had our very first faculty/staff prayer meeting (yeah!!!) and last night we gathered some of our returning students to prepare for Move-In on Saturday and for meeting and welcoming new students, over the next few weeks especially.  Saturday we’ll be sweating it out (literally) in service, helping students move-in into the housing units (their not dorms, trust me).  Then we’ve got 3 days of tabling, surveys, a raffle, a big BBQ to kick-off the quarter, our first DEEP, and then the first day of class with our first two Bible studies - day & night - starting off the year.  We’re going to be preaching through the book of Luke at DEEP this year, and teaching through the parables in Bible study.  Should be good times all the way around.

With the anticipation of all the craziness that accompanies the first half of the quarter (from now until the end of October when we go out to Catalina for our annual Fall conference), we spent sometime today as a staff team to pray.  I won’t list out all of the ugly details here, but for those of you who pray, please do.   More than just on-time taxes are on the line.

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Even after reading the article in the Economist, I’m not sure if this represents a step forward or something to be wary of.

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This post “Bourne Again” from God’s politics on the Bourne Ultimatum only confirms how much I like the whole trilogy.

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I’ve been wanting to say that every since I got back from Turkey, since I got a chance to teach about this section from the book of Job while I was there.  I’m anticipating that with the acclaim, maybe I’ll get a mega-church and a TV gig now.

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Cleverly spinning off of the UPS ad campaign, we shared the LaFe vision for Greater Los Angeles by introducing this video at the end of our staff conference on Thursday.

Our hope was to give staff something to remember as they think their ministry and Latino students on campus. What do you think?

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Today started our 2nd annual GLA Divisional Staff Conference, which will last until Thursday. I was just starting my sabbatical last August, so this is my first year with this conference. I’m really enjoying it.

The focus of this year’s conference is Leadership Development. One of the “pre-course” assignments for the conference was to read Leighton Ford’s book - Transforming Leadership. Good book. Below are my top 10 quotes and my top 7 leadership lessons from the book. (more…)

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We’re trying to convince Isa how cool she looks in her shades, but so far, no dice.
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“For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits without a trace of partiality or hypocrisy.

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace for those who make peace.”

- James 3:16-18

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Several weeks ago, at a coalition meeting of urban youth workers in East LA, we were asked to share about ourselves by answering the question - “What keeps you up at night?”

Too be totally honest, my instinctive response was (more…)

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I wrote this letter to the LA Times in response to today’s cover story - “Pioneer in an experiment called open adoption” -

Dear LA Times,

I just read today’s article on open adoption. Having adopted our 20 mo./old daughter (we brought her home at 3 weeks), I take offense at the negative portrayal of open adoption. In a time where hundreds of thousands of U.S. children are un-adopted, highlighting this story as somehow representative of adoption in general and open adoption in particular is misleading at best and discouragingly deceptive at worst. Instead of writing a 3 page cover story that portrays a negative open adoption that discourages people from pursuing domestic adoptions, what about investigating the negative impact of unadopted children or the foster-care system’s need for overhaul? Would it be better that children be left in a notoriously broken foster-care system, or that U.S. children be left behind because foreign-adoptions are emotionally “easier” for adoptive parents? Shame on us as a country if that is so.

Scott McLane

This topic continues to stir my passion for justice.

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Photo from our end-of-the year Scripture conference at Campus by the Sea
I’ve posted my most current ministry update - you can read it here. It has a recap of our summer conference, as well as my ministry trip to Turkey.

P.S. If you didn’t get the chance, I also posted a full-update last month about Isabel’s development.

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Enjoyed the phrase.

Appreciated even more Ruben Navarrette’s most recent opinion article regarding immigration.

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