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…
Scared to death at gunpoint in Tanzania A broken world Our team in Tanzania was robbed at gunpoint this past week. A group of about 15 broke in to where they were staying. Thankfully the team is OK. We have moved…
How to debrief your mission team (part 2 – biblical perspective) Debriefing Why debrief? Because Jesus did it with his disciples. We see Jesus’ model of a short-term mission trip in Luke 9 and 10 as he sends out first the 12 d…
How to follow up on your mission project Short-term missions The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is Standard …
