Getting started in Matamoros
During the summer of 1993 some of our staff joined me in investigating the new field of Matamoros, Mexico. Such pioneering trips are often opportuniti...
Short-term missions
Our petty complaints
Short-term missions can have an incredible impact on the participants, if they are truly broken of their western ethnocentrism and exposed to the extr...
Spiritual Formation
A World Racer talks about real hunger
Last month, World Racer Amanda Dums, who was ministering in a world of hunger in Africa, wrote this: The word of this month for me is "hunger."...
Mobilization
Voice of a movement
Each month, thousands of people are visiting Wrecked for the Ordinary, an online magazine for radical Christ-followers. A generation that is hungry fo...
Community and Covenant
John Eldredge on community living
I just came across this article by Eldredge in House2House, a house church resource. In reading it, I realized how the World Race, a pioneer church-pl...
Kingdom Reality
Protecting yourself against phariseeism, Pt. 2
Two days ago I blogged about the subject of hypocrisy in those of us who are viewed as Christian leaders. It's not a popular subject - when Jesus too...
Short-term missions
Yearning for a Matthew 10 experience
This past week I watched a team of six American young people take off from Swaziland to Cape Town intent on following God wherever he might lead them ...
Discipling
Imparting spiritual gifts
I wrote this reflection just before leaving Africa: As the sun slides behind the green hills of Manzini and dissolves into an orange glow, Karen a...
Orphans
Finding Donzula in a sea of pain
6.25.07 Chris Telfer writes from Swaziland: Three weeks ago while we were finishing up our time in Dondo, Mozambique...
Living in God space
I just got this great email from Floyd McClung. "God space" is real to me, and it was genuine for the man who first introduced me to the term. Dr. ...
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