Wow. Cheer on the compassion and hard work of a church in the third world and a lot of folks say “Amen.” Talk a little smack about a big plastic whale and quite a crowd gathers to leave their two cents.
95 people left comments on a recent post of mine called Our Witness about a… 
Archive for May 2009
Your Witness
Record Setting Day!
It’s official. 1,000,000 children are now sponsored through Compassion International! 1,000,000 children in 25 of the world’s poorest countries! And an estimated 6,000 of those sponsors are you guys reading this blog, college students who sat through my ramblings at a chapel service, and folks who came to my concerts. Thank you! (Wess Stafford, Compassion’s…
Witness In Florida
After almost a decade of travel, I thought I’d sung at a church in every denomination – even the ones that deny being denominations. But Saturday night was a first.
“I’ve never even heard of an Evangelical Covenant church,” I told Jim Black, one of the church’s two pastors.
He explained that the denomination split off from…
My Witness Challenge
A few days ago I wrote about a pastor in Kolkata, India whose church building and resources are used all week long to help the community around it. He told me why: ”Our witness is our service.”
In the comments of that post there were lots of attaboys for the work of local churches partnering with…
Florida And Thanks
I’m heading to Florida this weekend. All the details are over on the Tour Page.
That page looks a little thin at the moment but there is stuff coming. Ben’s doing a great job filling up our Summer. But, there’s still room for your city on our calendar so, if you’re interested in booking me FOR…
Our Witness
This guy’s doing it all wrong.
He’s the pastor of a church in Kolkata, India that’s partnering with Compassion International – he says to “serve” kids in his community.
Pete and I saw a lot of unchurchy stuff going on at this church. We saw kids exercising.
They were reading and writing.
Kids were learning how to make things…
About Shaun — Shaun Groves is a communicator who’s known by a lot of titles: Singer/songwriter. Speaker. Blogger. Husband. Daddy. Friend. He feels and thinks deeply and laughs easily. And he’s helping Christians discover what they were saved for, and being a voice for children around the world, desperate to be saved from poverty.
