The dangers of dependency on a mission trip (part 1)
First in a series on the issue of dependency, focusing on your objectives in going. If you are working with a host partner and your objective i...
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First in a series on the issue of dependency, focusing on your objectives in going. If you are working with a host partner and your objective i...
I'm leaving this morning to debrief our World Race team in Nicaragua. Here's a video showing what one team has gone through this past month. And here'...
Youth minister Lizzy Robblee sent me the following email in response to the blog on the faddishness of short-term missions: I have been in yout...
This video, shot yesterday in Swaziland by Tom Davis and narrated by Pastor Walter, is a sobering look at the realities of life in the most dangerous ...
Just back home and jet-lagged from Swaziland. I left my friend Tom Davis and the team behind to continue the work. Here is another video update from T...
Swaziland is the country where people die faster than anywhere else in the world - shockingly, the average Swazi doesn't ever see 30 years of age. In ...
Here’s Tom Davis’ video update from Africa. We’ve been struggling to find a place that has sufficient bandwidth to upload it. We finally found t...
More on the subject of choosing your vocation from Buechner: In the year that King Uzziah died, or in the year that John F. Kennedy died, or in t...
After flying 18 hours to South Africa, we went to an archetypical African worship service. It was great - the atmospherics were perfect. We crossed a ...
A thought from Frederick Buechner: "It comes from the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all d...