On an unseasonably warm Saturday morning, Archbishop James Cloud and I meet at a Starbucks in Bethany, a small suburb north of Beaverton. Bishop Cloud wears a clerical collar, with a crucifix hanging from a golden chain around his neck. He is in his mid-40s, has a playful smile, and could otherwise be mistaken for the dungeon master of a local D&D group. But we’re not here to play games. In less than an hour,.
Sunday Journey Series: New Hope Church in Honolulu
Visiting Wayne Cordeiro and New Hope Church was our last big trip before shutdown. Ed Stetzer
Just before I leave Christianity Today, I wanted to wrap up my blog series called Sunday Journeys. In the series where we talk about what churches are doing and seek to learn from them. My last big trip before the shutdown was to take a group of our Wheaton College graduate students to Hawaii where we participated in a class on leadership with Wayne Cordeiro. Wayne is the pastor of New Hope Oahu, president of New Hope Christian College, and regularly partakes in leadership roles. Wayne Cordeiro, Margaret Diddams (our Wheaton College former Provost), and I primarily taught the course and had the privilege of participating in multiple activities at the church New Hope Oahu.