Dave Crow is the Associate Pastor at Imago Dei. His job includes leading music, overseeing communication and serving on the leadership team. He's been married to his high school sweetheart, Megan, for 5 years and lives in Peoria.
In November of 2007, I went on my first trip to the Saharawi refugee camps in Algeria. My friend, Jess, teaches at the English school there for three to six months at a time. Before our team arrived, Jess had given a few of her advanced students the assignment of preparing a presentation about Saharawi…
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Last year was a violent year for the city of Peoria. The Journal Star ran a front-page article on Sunday called “Peoria’s Deadly 2010”. They reported that there were 22 homicides, which is just one less than in 1989, the highest year on record. On top of that, there were 117 shootings and 68 stabbings…
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Over the past three or four years I’ve become somewhat of an NPR addict. Whenever I get in the car I flip to 89.9 to see if there’s a show on. Often times, I’ll get to my destination and not want to get out of my car because I want to hear the rest of…
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It was just before lunch time when a woman walked into the office. She looked very tired. She explained to me that she was staying at one of the shelters downtown with her three kids. As is fairly common among shelters, they make people leave at 5 a.m. and don’t re-open until the evening. Her…
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Last week Apple unveiled a new device that uses cutting-edge technology and does things no other device does. Within an hour of the Apple presentation, many tech blogs were making lists of all the features they thought were missing and all the reasons they weren’t impressed with this new piece of technology. We live in…
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