We talk about suicide a lot in my counseling program
When the topic comes up
I get tense
My heart rate goes up
I feel it in my gut
It’s

Mimi, this wasn’t a very good bedtime story.
My granddaughter said with tears in her eyes as we finished up the animated version of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

“Why do you say that?” I asked her.
“Because there was so much murder.” she replied.

After I tucked her into bed and we had spent some time talking to the Jesus that had been brutally murdered on the television screen just an hour ago, I

Before I arrived I remember guessing what I could bring. At one time I'm quoted in our local paper as saying that I would teach the Mongolians in my community to have better "hygiene." (note to self: DON'T do articles about your work before you've started working). I cringe when I

“The narrator told me that John and Betty didn’t fully fall in love at Moody, they were distracted deeply by God’s call on their life. Each to missions and nothing pulled them away from that call.”

But had I been you
I wonder,
Would you have told me these things instead?

My first Christmas morning as I walked the empty streets with Anelise, we found a group of teenagers laying on an old mattress. They jumped up shouting…

This year a new tradition has begun. A tradition that no one saw coming. We can credit it to…

As a diverse nation of over 19,000 languages spoken, and over 300 million gods worshiped - most Indians do not know the meaning of…

With Liberians, we believe that the concept of celebrating Christmas was introduced by the African American brothers who were sent to Africa in the A. D. 1800 when slavery was abolished in the west. They were hosted by …

“…I prayed, ‘God, Buddha, Jesus, Mohamed…whoever is the real God- please listen!’”

“…In my suffering, He is near. Even now when it seems I am doing nothing for the Lord, I am indeed useful, worth it, valuable to Him.…”

“…Missions became so closely intwined with social justice, feeding the hungry, caring for the orphan and the widow, all vital aspects of missions, but I fear in the process something important may have been lost…”

“ …He said, ‘Now is the time I want you to go.’ God sees what we don’t see and His timing is perfect. He told me, ‘Now is the time that I can use you to reach those vulnerable little ones with My Love and Care.’…”

“…we weren’t quite ready to take the next step. I cried out to God: “If this is YOU, if it is time to GO, please make it clear!” The clarity that followed was completely unexpected.”

“…the most important thing is “God loves you.” So simple yet that changes everything. Everything. It means acceptance and love and that brokenness will be put back together. It means life and love and a family. God loves you means being seen.”

What if we stopped waiting for 2020 to be over, but instead embraced it, banding together realizing this may be the crux of a turning point in history and our lives individually?

“God is not boring. I’ve followed his call to several precarious places on the planet. My life, following God as been radically changed. The places He takes you that you just didn’t see coming or you didn’t think were possible for you are amazing.”

“What if we all together ran with the Gospel, the true Gospel…ran for the world with the good news that they are saved?”

“It’s as if He was saying... TAKE ME TO THE NATIONS… Take me everywhere you go... because I will be in you. “

We’re all in a first together.All. Of .Us.And that’s really …..really ….weird