You’ve received 48 editions of the E-pistle since the first of the year, and I’ve just read all 48, a quick trip through 2005. Looking back at the past twelve months in the life of Park Church measured by these Friday missives, I’ve come up with my “Top Ten” list of Park events for 2005. Before it’s out with the old, then, one last look at 2005: (more…)

Here’s a site with some interesting video that will take those of you who have already been to Brazil right back into the Favela and will give those of you who have not been a sense of what you will find there. The organization that sponsors the project is called the Two Brothers Foundation, named after Dos Irmãos, the mountain of the Rocinha favela in Rio Janeiro. The Two Brothers Foundation is secular and based on college campuses in the U.S. They work especially at bringing educational opportunities to favela kids. (more…)