American Nomad Blog

  Herb on Getting Dirt Under Your Nails 00:00:00:07 - 00:00:10:10 Nobody Naturally Wants To Get Their Hands Dirty Most people don't like getting their hands dirty. Most people don't want to get dirt on the nails. They like to stand back and see it. I mean, it's just natural. Nobody wants to know and naturally wants to get dirty. 00:00:10:16 - 00:00:30:21 Make An Easy Entry Point Like what my wife did with the ministry was, she came in and she worked in the office upstairs. And so we were serving folks, loving on them, partnering with them. But my wife was working upstairs, and so as she became comfortable with what we were doing, she continually felt challenged by God to be present downstairs and eventually 00:00:30:21 - 00:00:55:20 Let People Get Uncomfortable With Their Un-involvement Everyone that I know who's worked upstairs in the office, in our ministry trickles down to working downstairs and eventually they're like, Oh 00:00:55:20 - 00:01:07:22 Let ...

  We Don't Need a New Gospel 03:03:07:11 - 03:03:23:03 We Don't Need a New Gospel We don't need a new gospel, right? We don't need a new gospel. We just need to actually know how to apply it. Like, what are the skills that it takes to actually live out the gospel? Do I have the skills to live that out? 03:03:23:08 - 03:03:48:08 The Gospel Has Been Relevant for 2000 Years That's the question. It's not. It's not is it's not. Is the gospel relevant? I mean, the gospel has been relevant for 2000 years. The question is, do I know how to use the gospel? And so then all of a sudden, what happens is people become rich and then rich because I now understand how to actively benefit from 03:03:50:03 - 03:04:11:02 Benefitting Others When You Know How It Benefits Yourself what benefits me. And if I benefit from what benefits me or is designed to benefit me, then there's an opportunity for it to benefit other people as it was designed to benefit other people. Th...

 Prayer as the First Step in Ministry - Herb Bailey (Church Army USA) 00:00:00:05 - 00:00:16:21 Moment of Intentional Prayer I think in our liturgy, we have a moment of prayer. There's a point where we can pray include your prayers, whatever they are. If it's a system or organization that you're like, Hey, this is important that that's the one that gets mentioned every week, every Sunday were mentioned in that every Sunday. 00:00:16:21 - 00:00:31:19 Mention the Specific Ministry We're mentioning the foster care community every Sunday when I mentioned the foster care community. If it's a one off, then perhaps you have rotating families that do a one off instead of. So if you do it every week, but it's not the same family that does it every week. 00:00:32:15 - 00:00:51:22 Prayer to Build Teams and Remember Workers And so you build into building teams that then carry this on. And so the prayer hits them in the feels because they feel remembered for what they ...

 This post was originally going to be an email but I decided to make a blog post about the topic instead.  I hope this is helpful to anyone considering upgrading their Canon Camera and especially if they are considering the Eos R or R5. EOS R  https://amzn.to/3buKMyX EOS R5  https://amzn.to/3ceBLcH When purchasing the Eos R or R5, the batteries they need are the same batteries used in the  Canon R6, 90D, 60D, 70D, 80D, 5D II, 5D III, 5D IV, 5Ds, 6D, 6D II, EOS 7D, and 7D Mark II Cameras.  https://amzn.to/38oPa0y When purchasing the R5, you rarely find a good deal that includes memory cards and lenses so the cost of the cameras should also include the need for faster cards and a lens adaptor or R series lenses. The adaptor I bought when I upgraded from a 5D mark 3 to R5  https://amzn.to/2PCsiEb This same adaptor I used on two other Eos R cameras. I believe it can adapt between any  Canon EF and EF-S series lenses. The EOS R had a HDMI output but it...

"I am from a country called Malawi. It's in southern East Africa. Roughly, it has a population of 18.1 million and approximately 71% of my country lives in extreme poverty. It's a really poor country. (Zai after getting a nice haircut!) Fortunately, I grew up in the upper class of my country- fortunately, by God's grace. I was born to two wonderful parents my dad died, unfortunately, when I was 9 and I've been growing up with my single mother and my younger brother. (His English is really good.) So people have been asking me you've only been in the US since about August… how do you speak such good English?! I grew up in an international school. I was able to learn English and I was able to meet people from various cultures which was really good because you have a very good worldview when you meet people from India, America, the UK, people from Holand. I have friends from various ...

“24 years ago, I stepped in a hole a broke my leg. People sent cards and it ministered to me. I started sending other people cards. 20 each week. I sent one to a painter who was out of a job, “Feeling blue? try painting yourself a different color”. To a friend who was a trucker, “Thought you could use a pick me up.” I remember people coming up to me at church and telling how much  it meant to them. One lady keeps their card on their night stand “to remember someone cares”. After this, I started a ministry called “Written from the Heart”. Since falling in the hole, I’ve been dealing with chronic pain. God has given me something to do no matter when I sleep. I remember the night I fell in the hole I was listening to a message by a quadriplegic. I was talking to God and said, “I am willing Lord to be whatever you want me to be.” That is the night I stepped in the hole. It brought me closer to Christ. I’d rather be in the wheelchair with Jesus than walking around without him.” – Susan...