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  • icduperu.org

    Created: Monday, 23 February 2009 16:17 Author: Kyle Smith
    Well we've finally gotten it ready.  ICDU now has it's very own website: www.icduperu.org.  We encourage you to bookmark that address and check back often for news and updates concerning our research and development projects.  The site is...

  • Changing Tides

    Created: Saturday, 21 February 2009 04:39 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Escobar, Samuel. Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today. American Society of Missiology Series, no. 31. Marykonll: Orbis, 2002. If I were to choose only one word to describe Changing Tides, it would be incisive.  Though dif...

  • God Provides

    Created: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 06:31 Author: Kyle Smith
    Sometimes God works in mysterious ways.  Sometimes He works in very obvious ways.  One way that we have received affirmation of God's work in our lives and this ministry is through you, our supporters.  As a mission team we have been &quo...

  • In the Beginning

    Created: Tuesday, 10 February 2009 03:52 Author: Kyle Smith
    While we have had an office for a month in a very real way ICDU has been born today.  I am posting this from our office, using ICDU internet, sitting at my desk.  Our doors are wide open to let the cool breeze flow in and right now I can watch...

  • Symbolic Act

    Created: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:20 Author: Greg McKinzie
    We've been renovating.  I like that word, renovating.  To make new again is godly.  I have wondered what the neighborhood folk think of our labors.  Painting, sanding, staining, cleaning.  One thing about Peruvian ae...

  • Changing Tides

    Created: Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:03 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Escobar, Samuel. Changing Tides: Latin America and World Mission Today. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2002. ...

  • La Oficina Nueva

    Created: Monday, 05 January 2009 12:00 Author: Megan
    Larissa and I had the privilege to go visit the office space for the first time today.  I will have to say that I love it.  It is in a great location and the space is perfect for what we need.  Plazas are the "happening places"...

  • The Combi

    Created: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 03:06 Author: Greg McKinzie
    This is our new ride.  It's not pink.     ...

  • Launch

    Created: Sunday, 28 December 2008 03:30 Author: Greg McKinzie
    We're proud to present the face of El Instituto Cristiano de Desarrollo Urbano (The Christian Urban Development Institute): ICDU.     ...

  • Red Letter Monday

    Created: Monday, 22 December 2008 08:13 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Today was a big day for us.  We've been on the hunt for both a vehicle and an office space . . . needing to spend the dough budgeted for '08.    Well, after much Peruvianness and despite it being a Monday, we managed to get a combi (think...

  • New Global Ideology

    Created: Monday, 15 December 2008 14:54 Author: Greg McKinzie
    In a recent interview, Colin Powell Made the following observation:  . . .  I believe that the greatest political force at work today is economics--political force--economics, wealth creation. All of these nations that were ...

  • TA on cafepress & squidoo

    Created: Saturday, 13 December 2008 18:04 Author: Greg McKinzie
    If you're doing some last-minute Christmas shopping, you should check out teamAREQUIPA's products at cafepress.com (I'm not giving you the link on purpose--read on).  Actually, you should check them out even if you are not doing last-minute Chr...

  • The New Culture Shock

    Created: Wednesday, 10 December 2008 16:40 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Culture shock as a phenomenon has been studied and written about primarily before the advent of the globalized world.  Cultural distance has not decreased in terms of the fundamentals of cultural difference, but the global village is smaller ever...

  • Immaculate Huh?

    Created: Sunday, 07 December 2008 21:00 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Today was the Feast of the Immaculate Conception.  We took the girls in to school this morning only to realize that school was closed, as was most everything else.  National holiday and all that.  So, did you know that the Immaculat...

  • Global Frontier Missions

    Created: Tuesday, 02 December 2008 10:00 Author: Greg McKinzie
    "Church Planting Movements"    ...

  • Catchwords

    Created: Sunday, 30 November 2008 19:25 Author: Greg McKinzie
    There are a couple of words that we throw around a lot.  They represent concepts that have been formative for every aspect of our mission work, but now that we are here, where the proverbial rubber meets the road, I want to reflect on them a litt...

  • Bolivar's Nightmare

    Created: Thursday, 27 November 2008 04:06 Author: Greg McKinzie
    One of my favorite discoveries so far is QUEHACER, the publication of a Peruvian developmental agency called DESCO.  It is a quarterly journal that deals in depth with society, politics, culture, and other themes relevant to the Peruvian and Latin ...

  • Graduating

    Created: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 21:00 Author: Greg McKinzie
    Well, I've finished with Spanish language school.  It's a strange feeling being "done."  I haven't really studied Spanish since I finished my minor in undergrad, so I've been looking forward to brushing up for a long time.  It...

  • Trabalenguas

    Created: Monday, 17 November 2008 21:00 Author: Megan
    One of my teachers has been giving me tongue twisters to practice my pronunciation.  I got a kick out of two of the twisters from today.  The first is like our version of "Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers."  The seco...

  • Change is in the Air

    Created: Sunday, 16 November 2008 11:40 Author: Kyle Smith
    Welcome to our new "Support the Work" page!  In truth it isn't that much different from the old one but we decided it needed a little bit of a change.  For starters we decided to give this page its own major link on the main page, ...