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What Is The Future You Want To Come Home To?

-- Tom Sine -- During the season of Advent I suspect most of us can call up some of our very best memories of coming home to a place of festivity and welcome by those who love us. Unfortunately that is not true for everyone. I just came back from the bank on a beautiful brisk sunny day. For the first time ...

Creating Your Best Life For 2014

“To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.” Nelson Mandela This quote from Nelson Mandela, who died this week, has revolved in my mind as we plan for a new year at Mustard Seed Associates. Central to our organization is the desire, not just ...

Coming Home to the Advent Story - Second Podcast with Ryan Marsh

Story by Jim and Donna Mathwig Music by Aaron Strumpel, In Mansions and Church of the Beloved Reflection by Dr. Dwight Friesen Story by Jim and Donna Mathwig Music by Aaron Strumpel, In Mansions and Church of the Beloved Reflection by Dr. Dwight Friesen, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology Seattle WA Meditation by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates taken from the Advent devotional Waiting for the Light Produced by Ryan Marsh, Church of the Beloved Listen ...

Coming Home to the Advent Story - The First Podcast is Here

Story by Mary September Music by Tara Ward, The Opiate Mass and Church of the Beloved Reflection by Dr. Chelle Stearns, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology Seattle WA Meditation by Christine Sine, Mustard Seed Associates. This meditation contains the text for this years Advent meditation video Come Home to God Produced by Ryan Marsh, Church of the Beloved Listen now: Or right click this link and save to your computer: Advent Podcast Week One This is the first ...

Come Home with Us for Advent

Advent begins on Sunday and I wanted to make sure that you are aware of all the exciting things MSA has planned for the season. Our theme this year is Coming Home: Uncovering our Roots in the Advent Story. Yesterday I posted a new Advent mediation video to introduce the season. Once again it features the music of Celtic musician Jeff Johnson. I ...

A New Season Has Begun

-- Christine Sine -- The year is coming to a close and here at MSA we are already aware of new things in the air, a new season of blossom and fruitfulness as we prepare for the year ahead. This has been a year for laying strong foundations and putting stakes in the ground. MSA aspires to become a centre for imagination ...

Are followers of Jesus expected to be changemakers?

-- Tom Sine -- Recently when I attended the SOCAP Conference in San Francisco that has an unusual mission..."Accelerating the Good Economy!" I was one of some 1,900 participants. Most of the participants were social innovators or those that wanted to be plus social investors including representatives from the Bill and Melinda Gates and the Rockefeller Foundations. I can't remember ever being ...

To Everything...There is a Season

– Andy Wade – Sitting in my office, gazing into my garden sanctuary, it would be easy to be disheartened today. The skies are gray, rain is falling, and the garden is turning brown, crying out for serious care before the winter months. What happened to that amazing pallet of color splashed across the backyard? Now, dead sunflowers tower like brown skeletons, ...

The Roof is Up!

November 1, 2013

– Christine Sine – Last weekend Tom and I made another trip to the Mustard Seed Village. For the first time I had a sense of what this beautiful building will look like. The promise of the dream is more substantial than it has ever been. Walking around the building and standing on the roof […]

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Sharing Economy – redeux

October 28, 2013

– by Andy Wade – Originally posted in May, 2011 This past week, Christine wrote two posts on her blog, Godspace, about collaborative consumption and the new shared economy. These are great (and challenging) posts worthy of a read. I’m challenged by the fact that the world seems ahead of much of the church in […]

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The Value of Building Slowly

October 22, 2013

October MSA Imaginings This last weekend Tom and I visited Camano Island where the cross beams on our first building are being installed. It is another small but exciting milestone, but progress seems so slow. Yet because of that slowness it is all the more valuable and the unexpected rewards of new friends, new vision […]

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Beam Me Up!

October 15, 2013

– Christine Sine – Thanks to your help, we’re making progress at the Mustard Seed Village! Tom and I visited Camano on Sunday and were delighted to see that the 42 new cross beams which were added this last week. Pray for our workers as they complete the crossbeams and add the plywood for the […]

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Manifest Imagination – reprise

October 14, 2013

–by Andy Wade – Here in the United States, as another Columbus Day rolls around it seems appropriate to remember what that meant for the people already occupying the land he “discovered”. But the US is not alone in its shady past. Many countries in addition to the US have histories of colonialism and violence, […]

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Working Together for the Common Good

October 7, 2013

Is there a way to make a difference in these difficult days through the pursuit of the common good? – Tom Sine – Israeli David Shaul and his Palestinian neighbor Ziad Abed are committed to achieving the common good in a deeply conflicted country. They are neighbors, business partners and close friends. Ziad is a […]

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The Harmful Effects of Processed Spirituality

September 30, 2013

– Andy Wade – Modern society seems obsessed with perfect food. We want it to look good. Like airbrushed models which create unrealistic and unhealthy body expectations, our food has become processed, refined, bleached, waxed, and injected with chemicals to give the appearance of perfect food. Yet, like the skinny model struggling with anorexia, our […]

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Making a Difference Through Business and Investment

September 25, 2013

– Tom Sine – Have you ever considered creating innovative new ways to make a difference in our troubled world through business and investment? Two weeks ago I was riding the 49 bus down Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco. It was exactly the same route that I took by streetcar many decades ago when […]

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Administrative Assistant

September 24, 2013

Mustard Seed Associates is currently looking for a part time administrative assistant (10-15 hrs. per week) who can assist our Executive Director with office related tasks. This position will provide a unique opportunity to assist the Mustard Seed team in developing and marketing events that invite participants to re-imagine how to live and serve God […]

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  What is the future you want to come home to? Tom Sine During the season of Advent I suspect most of us can call up some of our very best memories of coming home to a place of festivity and welcome by those who love us. Unfortunately that is not true for everyone. I just(...)
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