Dennis Singini Arrives in Greensboro, NC & Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA

Report on Dennis' Activites in North Carolina and Virginia

Submitted by Host Rob Robins, Osborne Baptist Church, Greensboro, NC

Dennis arrived at Greensboro at 11:30 pm on 8/13, several hours late. On Sunday the 14th we visited Osborne Baptist Church, but were unable to stay for the entire service due to the fact that Dennis needed to be at Liberty University in Lynchburg, VA, some 100 miles away, at 12:30 pm to begin his business class. After a quick stop at Ci Ci’s pizza and the campus bookstore, Dennis began his five day intensive class in Strategic Planning. Dennis stayed with Wes Gauldin and his wife who graciously shuttled him around and fed him for a week. (Wes’ brother-in-law has been to Malawi and is friend’s with Dennis.)

On Thursday night the 19th, I picked Dennis up from Lynchburg. Saturday we went fishing during the morning and then Dennis mowed some of Genesis Ministries field with my little tractor. The next day – Sunday - he was able to teach an adult connection group at Osborne Baptist, before preaching a fabulous sermon at M & L Tabernacle of Faith in Reidsville, NC, followed by a wonderful meal. Sunday evening Dennis spoke at a Celebrate Recovery, sharing the testimony of how his drunkard dad met Jesus and was changed.
Monday, the 22^nd, we went to Celebration Station and raced go-carts, rode bumper boats, and played a game of Putt-Putt golf. That evening we, my 8 yr. old, David Hinton - a young man who spent over 3 months in Malawi, and Delana, who has also been to Malawi, went to an indoor rock climbing facility. To which, Dennis made it the 40’ to the top.

On Wednesday, before flying to San Diego, Dennis spoke to the Elementary students at Community Baptist Christian School, presented a beautiful chief’s chair to the pastor of M&L Tabernacle, and had lunch with another African American pastor.

Mother Shalom

South Central, Los Angeles, was the neighborhood in the city where Communities of Shalom began in 1992. I met Marx Gutierrez from El Salvador who was there attending High School at the time. He remembers what happened at the corner of Florence and Normandy Streets in South Central, LA, when Reginald Denny was pulled out of his truck and beaten while the crowd looked on and the police did nothing; and how the Rodney King beating resulted in a not-guilty verdict for the police and resulted in a major, 3-day uprising in the neighborhood, until the National Guard came in and finally imposed law and order. He can still remember the fires, the bright orange night sky, the mass looting, 45 unsolved killings, the social chaos...And how the United Methodist Churches responded by creating a zone of shalom in 7 neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Today, Marx is a community organizer, and married to Jennifer Gutierrez, Conference Shalom Coordinator in the Calif-Pacific Annual Conference, and Rev. Vilma

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Fifteen of us gathered Saturday night at the Lambs Club for a 35 th year reunion of those who helped start the Lamb’s Church in Times Square in the mid to late 1970’s, including: Rev. Paul S. Moore , Founder of the Lamb’s Church of the Nazarene, and his wife, Tamara Dr. Michael J. Christensen , charter member and former associate pastor, and his wife Dr. Rebecca Laird Fr. William (BJ) Webe r, former Associate Pastor and Director of the Lamb’s Residency, and his wife Sheila who lived at the Lamb’s Jim and Dustee Hullinger, who were on staff together and made the Lamb’s their home for over 25 years Effie Canepa , who was the church pianist under 3 pastors, and her husband Peter Shirley Close, who attended the Lamb’s in the late 1970’s while studying, performing and teaching music and voice Carl "Chappy" Valente , former associate pastor Rev. Bob DiQuatto , lead singer of the Church’s “Manhattan Project” and staff member of the Lamb’s, and his son Jason Rev. Gabriel

Liberation Spirituality: Henri Nouwen and Gustavo Gutierrez in Dialogue

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