Josh
For the sunshiners out there that have been to the Sunshine Festival in Willmar, MN, you might have heard this guy named Josh Finklea speaking, a Youth Pastor. He had a very interesting message about his experience with God in different country’s. The thing that struck me most was the idea “is your church a clean church or a dirty one”. Doctors are for the sick, not the healthy, just as Jesus was and we can model our Church after that. Invite and accept the outcasts of society, the prostitutes, homosexuals and drunks, the people that we have been taught not to be associated with. To unlearn that way of thinking and invite them, accept them, and especially, love them as Jesus did. Not to love what the do or did, but love them as the people God made them.
Anyways, I wrote him an email sharing some stuff and saying that his ministry has reached Paraguay. He responded and was glad to here that.
Here some info:
http://www.staroutreach.net/ is the ministry he has started
http://www.myspace.com/joshfinklea
http://www.compassion.com/ Comassion. Child sponsering.
