sethbarnes

Missions , Leadership , Prayer , ...

From Mexico to the Middle East: A Missionary Launchpad

Early on after I had just started AIM, I asked author and missionary Elisabeth Elliott what advice she would give to young missionaries.  She answere...

Amazing God Stories , Faith & risk

The Hidden Cost of Playing it Safe

Years ago, I found myself in a one-room adobe house in El Derramadero, Mexico. A woman named Eva stood before me, holding her four-year-old son, Fidel...

a great story , Amazing God Stories

Hannah Park and the Korean Church Taught us to Pray

Duhi Park Schneider is a friend and college classmate. Over the years, we got to know her mom, Hannah Park. This past weekend, at 95 years-old, she pa...

Parenting , Faith & risk , Courage

Parents - Your Kids Need You to Trust Them More

Last night I was on a Zoom call with some young adults who I got to know four years ago. We began the call catching up with one another. The first gu...

a great story , Culture and Faith , Journeys , ...

Faith Across Borders: A Mission to the Schools of Isernia

Next week, twenty-seven students and four leaders will scatter across the Atlantic, carrying stories of hope to a land rich in history but weary in sp...

Leadership

How to Connect Deeply as Partners

How many true partnerships do you have in life? How many relationships that are balanced and reciprocal. We are made for connection. Yet in a world of...

Intergenerational connection

Helping Gen Z Find Their Greatness

We are witnessing a silent crisis in slow motion — a generation brimming with potential, quietly unraveling. More Gen Z young adults are dying by s...

Improving yourself

What to do with bad self-talk

This morning, playing pickleball, I hit the ball into the net. "Barnes! What are you doing?!" I exclaimed. The stuff going on in my head was ...

journey

Launching Journey School: An Alternative to College

Higher education in America is a scandal.It's too costly, saddling students with debt.The lectures in its classrooms are boring.Students need mentors ...

Education

The College Experience of Your Dreams

What if I told you there was a way for you to have the college experience of your dreams without going into debt? What if it was an experience where y...