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L.I.F.E. Downtown: The Blessing of Diversity

Posted on September 2, 2011

Dear First Church Friends,

The Blessing of Diversity

Perhaps you saw in last Saturday’s Miami Herald an article about the diversity of the Hispanic community in South Florida. There were graphs accompanying the article related to the Hispanic diversity of the county as a whole as well as smaller communities within Miami-Dade (City of [...]

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: First Day of Kindergarten

Posted on August 19, 2011

Dear First Church Friends,

First Day of Kindergarten

Next week Amauri and I will send our daughter off to Kindergarten. I have found myself feeling a bit emotional about it. She is not. She has her new backpack, lunchbox and crayons. The uniforms are purchased and she assures me she is ready for "big [...]

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: Going to Summer Camp

Posted on August 8, 2011

Dear First Church Friends,

Going to Summer Camp!

This week our church sent six young people to summer camp in Leesburg, FL. The Warren W. Willis camp has been providing spiritual growth and fun for youth throughout Florida since 1948! It is so fantastic that our youth are able to go and enjoy this beautiful, [...]

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L.I.F.E Downtown: Did you know?

Posted on July 22, 2011

Dear FUMC Friends,

Did You Know?

Did you know that 23,000 new apartments have been built downtown since 2003? A good 85% of those are now filled with new residents. Did you know the total number of people living in downtown Miami now is 70,000? Perhaps you, like me, grew up in towns that were [...]

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: Yes, absolutely!

Posted on July 8, 2011

Dear FUMC Friends,

Yes, absolutely!

Recently, our family was in Texas attending my brother’s wedding. This is the oldest of my siblings and we were all excited to be able to share the special day together. My brother has three delightful children from a previous marriage and he married a woman with [...]

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: True Communion

Posted on December 12, 2010

Dear FUMC Friends,

True Communion

Many of you know that I returned this week from a trip to the country of Bolivia. I lived in Cochabamba, Bolivia from 1997-1999 as a volunteer missionary after I completed seminary at Yale. It was a life changing experience that taught me a great [...]

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: Hanging Out

Posted on November 19, 2010

When I consider the growing number of religious people who do not associate with a church, I believe they are missing something integral to the faith experience. Isn’t it in worship and fellowship with one another that we truly learn to love, trust, enjoy and understand the magnificence of our God?

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L.I.F.E. Downtown: A Case of the “Gimmies”

Posted on October 22, 2010

Aren’t we humans all infected with the “gimmies?” Adults aren’t much better than kids. We simply have resources to buy the things that children have to ask others to buy for them. There are an awful lot of things out there (the bigger the people the bigger the toys, as they say) that make us say, “gimmie, gimmie, gimmie!”

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A New Paint Job

Posted on October 8, 2010

Even with all of the dents in my fender and cracks in my windshield, God does not demand the story behind each one. God does not remind me of whose fault they were, nor does God refuse to repair them.

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Love and Hate, Part II

Posted on September 24, 2010

A young woman, Claudia, has been worshiping at our church since June. She is from Ghana and is here for the year studying through a special program that brings young people together from all over the world to learn about each other, their cultures and how to respect and appreciate both their differences and similarities.

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