A Sweet Documentary...

For those of you who know me well know that I've drawn lots of inspiration from a man named Shane Claiborne. I wanted to tell you all about a movie that is coming to KC for one night and is about Christians all over the country who are living in abandoned places of empire trying to be Jesus to all they encounter. It is beautiful and inspiring!  Read below for the info and hopefully I'll see you there!

What: Ordinary Radicals movie
Special Guests:  Director/co-founder of The Simple Way, Jamie Moffett, and author/interviewee, Zack Exley
When: Tuesday, Sept. 23rd
Where: Screenland theatres in the Crossroads
Directions: 1656 Washington Kansas City, MO 64108
Time: 7:30pm
Cost: 10 dollars
buy tickets at door or online: http://www.theordinaryradicals.com/blog/calendar
***I'd recommend buying tickets online as the theatre is expected to sell out***



(if you'd like to help promote this screening, let me know by emailing me at npickrell@youthfront.com)


Here is the press release:

Afilm about a conspiracy of faith in the margins of empire
In the margins of the United States, there lives a revolutionary Christianity. One with a quiet disposition that seeks to do 'small things with great love,' and in so doing is breaking 21st Century stereotypes surrounding this 2000 year old faith. 'The Ordinary Radicals' is set against the modern American political and social backdrop of the next Great Awakening. Traveling across the United States on a tour to promote the book 'Jesus for President', Shane Claiborne and a rag-tag group of 'ordinary radicals' interpret Biblical history and its correlation with the current state of American politics. Sharing a relevant outlook for people with all faith perspectives, director Jamie Moffett examines this growing movement.

As Shane Claiborne and Chris Haw write in the
book, 'This is not a set of political suggestions for
the world; this is about invoking and embodying
the alternative. All of this is an invitation to join a
peculiar people- those with no king but God, who
practice jubilee economics and make the world
new. This is not the old-time religion of going to
heaven; this is about bringing heaven to the
world.'

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September 08 Newsletter

SOME THOUGHTS

My trip to Amsterdam over the summer turned out to be both rewarding and exhausting; both inspiring and difficult.  I was forced to deal with fears I never knew I had and came home more certain than before that God is calling me to a different way of living.

This new path won’t be easy but life isn’t supposed to be that way.  God always calls his people out of their comfort zones and into situations where they have to rely heavily on him for daily strength.  When we obey God and take that step into the unknown, that’s where we experience all the beauty of the highs and lows of life.  Deciding to step into this call has been difficult.  But I have seen the byproducts of a life lived pursuing comfort and safety and I realize that I don’t want to live that way.  I would rather live in a way that is challenging and full of opportunities to experience life in all its mystery.

If you have been keeping up with my newsletters you will recall one from earlier this year in which I laid out what I felt God was calling me to do.  The time is quickly approaching when a couple of my close friends and I will venture into the heart of Kansas City to begin living lives of radical love, generosity and simplicity.  I simply ask that you pray—and pray often—that we will be overwhelmingly drawn to where God may want us, and that God will bring those people forward with whom we are supposed to enter into this new way of life.

Next month I will lay out the plans for the new venture in life on which my friends and I will be embarking.  I am very excited to show these plans to you but I also realize that I just got back from a two month trip to Amsterdam.  I figured it would probably be a good idea to show you some pictures taken during my time there so enjoy!  Thanks for being so good to me and helping me realize that I am never alone in the work God is doing in Kansas City and the world.



A birthday party my friends threw for me in Amsterdam

This is a piece of art we hung up in the Red Light District

In a very traditional Dutch town.


At Corrie Ten Boom's house.  It was an incredibly sobering and inspiring place.

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