Who are your heroes?
I’ve got a few heroes whose lives I struggle to emulate. Rich Mullins was one (more on him in tomorrow’s blog). I wish I had more. What about you – who are your...
Author: Seth Barnes
Photo contest: Last week to enter
It’s been a good week for the blog. I began by sharing how I was feeling led to re-purpose the blog. And many of you responded. We had some dialogue and a number of you stepped...
May 2009 ministry newsletter
Because I’m a faith-supported missionary like most AIM staff, I send monthly updates to my group of supporters (if you’d like me to put you on our list, please let me...
New direction for this blog
For the last few days our blog community has had some good dialogue about re-purposing the blog. Most blogs exist to share what C.S. Lewis has termed “sheer information.”...
How God speaks to us thru transitions
So, I’ve been in a place of personal transition and it has spilled over to this blog. It’s not a huge change in life; it’s not prompted by need or crisis –...
Where should this blog go?
I want to say thank you to the many people who wished me Happy Birthday on yesterday’s blog. I can’t adequately express how encouraging everything that you wrote was...
This blog and our blog community
I’m 51 today; it’s a season of reassessment. In the shower, I thought to myself, “I’m tired of writing blogs.” For nearly four years, I’ve written...
When mom returns from the sex trade
From Stephanie Fisk, this heart-breaking story:
It was the typical story. A family of 6. The mom left for work two years ago and disappeared somewhere in Kazakastan. I assumed...
Two more weeks in photo contest
With two weeks left in the qualifying round of the photo contest, I know there are many of you amazing photographers out there who are still waiting to enter. $5000 prize money...
Training camps that change lives
It is a season of training camps here in Gainesville. We’re sending a record number out to the field on trips a month or longer.
The World Race camp moved to inner city Atlanta...
The next World Race route
This week I’ve seen 85 people come alive at our largest World Race training camp ever. I’m amazed at how God has blessed this ministry that was nothing but an interesting...
Transitions in life are good
I’m in a transition phase in life and I’m working hard to be OK with it. Consider:
For 25 years Karen and I have raised our five children and now they’re moving...
You can make a difference
We sometimes despair that our lives will ever amount to much. We have a hard time seeing how our skills can ever impact the pain we see all around us. The world’s problems...
God, I am sorry!
To be human is to mess up and wish you could change. We do it all our lives. Everyone has something in their lives that they wish they could push the re-set button on. Left hidden,...
Rude people & the grace imperative
I’ve got a public job. I put myself out there as a three-dimensional human being with problems just like you in this blog and in the ministries I lead. If I hurt, I try to...
Photo contest gains momentum
The missions photo contest I first proposed several weeks ago is gaining momentum. The $5000 in prize money has attracted nearly 1000 entries so far, the lion’s share of them...
Saying goodby to Abby
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 a parade of animals through...
Kris Allen’s Land of Smiles
This is a season of entropy; the economy is sliding and the moral fabric is fraying in our angst-ridden society. So when Kris Allen won American Idol on Wednesday, it gave us something...
Leah graduates
We returned from Ukraine last night. No pausing to catch your breath around here as today is Leah’s graduation day. Such a red-letter day on the family calendar means rolling...
Mail-order bride capital of the world
What former Soviet Republic leads the world in mail-order brides, alcoholism, and depression? If you guessed Moldova, a failed nation-state that is wedged between Ukraine and Romania,...
The reality of Slumdog Millionaire
Did you see Slumdog Millionaire? I just saw on the news last week that the kid who starred in it had his house in the slums bulldozed. The sad truth is that the movie depicted what...
What we learned about community this year
Karen and I are debriefing our World Race team in Kiev. What an experience it’s been! Thirty-two 20-somethings have spent a year going around the world together and we’ve...
My Ukraine twitter experience so far
Realtime updates from Ukraine. Follow me here: http://twitter.com/SethBarnes and search: #sethUKR
SethBarnesBack from our adventure to Crimea. Spectacular Black Sea coastline. Too...
Toya Mac: Mobilizing African Americans to reach Africa
Spring has passed in Georgia, and we at AIM are entering the busiest season of the year. I catch myself sometimes worrying about the future and where we’re headed as an organization....