03.20.2025 – Parenting – 7 Comments on Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip Take Your Kids on a Family Mission Trip In 2002, our oldest child, Talia, was graduating high school. Whatever final touches we wanted to put on the pare…
03.13.2025 – Better Living – 8 Comments on 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage My wife Karen is a therapist who sees a lot of couples whose relationship is in trouble. They are struggling and …
03.06.2025 – Refugees & Crisis, Short-term missions North Carolina Digs Out From Hurricane – You Can Help! Justin Rhodes took a video as Hurricane Helene threatened to wash away his family’s home and farm. A river raged …
02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith Am I a Cultural Christian? One of the questions I’ve wrestled with for much of my life is “What is a Christian?” America is known as a “Chri…
02.20.2025 – Leadership How Do I Know When to Take Action? I’m weird – I spend a lot of time reflecting, but I also tend to make quick decisions. I find that God often spea…
Keeping our daughters safe Eswatini / Swaziland This blog by Pastor Gift is hard to read, it such a searing account, I had to tone it down some. My hope in sharing it is that the reality of what so many yo…
Saying goodby to Abby My Life Abby, our lovable mutt, is reaching the end of the line. When we moved here in 1994, Estie went down to the pound and spotted Abby as a puppy. We have had …
Recovering from a bad case of mistaken identity Identity issues What do you do when you’ve become aware of the false self, when your discontent has risen to a place of critical mass? Something has to change…
