Sarah Buller lived a life in love - we'll miss her
Sarah Buller, an AIM participant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, was killed in an automobile accident on Sunday. And though they're rejoicing in ...
Eswatini / Swaziland
How to help someone dying of AIDS
When I visited Dudu in Swaziland, I saw she was dying. Lindsay Stahl (a World Racer) later discovered what it means to die with her. The ministry of ...
Abandon
Coping with an unimaginable loss
Karen and I are sitting in the Paris airport coming home from Romania. We're still a little numb. Yesterday an AIM participant in Port Elizabeth, S...
Simplicity Liberates You
Silence is a mirror on your deepest self
On this Good Friday, we think about the tomb - a place of death and silence. And while we fight death, I submit that we need to embrace silence. ...
Dealing with junk in our lives
All good things lie upstream
Many of you reading this are coping with some private pain. Life is hard. Just when you think it's safe to relax, it whacks you on the backside. Pai...
Short-term missions
A family mission trip - 3 years later
I wish more families understood the power of a family mission trip. Our friends Mark and Kathryn Almand took their family on a mission trip three year...
Give to Sarah Buller Memorial Fund
In the days since Sarah Buller's death there has been a tremendous outpouring of love and concern for her family. We know that many of you have been...
Leadership
How to start a nonprofit organization
This is the last in a series on starting nonprofits and their boards. Don't do it unless there's no one else you can trust to take and receipt d...
Mobilization
Ministering to gypsies
Those of us who follow Jesus are like gypsies in a way. Peter, in his first book, describes us as "aliens and strangers in the world."...
Dealing with junk in our lives
Don't squander affliction
Linford Detweiler, the male half of the duo Over the Rhine, said that one of his life's ambitions is: "Don't squander affliction." I like that. It pre...
