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…
Being assigned your soul-mates for a year Community and Covenant We just announced to our next year’s World Racers who will be their teammates for the year. Imagine for a second what’s at stake – you’re a part of a group …
How to start a board of directors Leadership This is a follow-up to the blog about boards from a few days ago. I’ve seen a lot of bad boards in my day. I was fortunate to be seared by the experie…
Three symbols of community Community and Covenant Training a team of missionaries (soon departing for Africa) in our home last week helped me see first-hand what we’re missing. They filled every nook and cra…