We were on a project in Matamoros nine years ago. I'll never forget the impact it made on my 12-year old boy to see Mexican kids who hadn't eaten in a...
I know I said this would be a 6-part series on debriefing, but the traffic on my blog site was so heavy last week, it seems like many of you have a st...
Without a good debriefing, you've missed the point of a mission project. Debriefing connects the dots for participants, helping them to see what God i...
Yesterday I had the privilege of meeting the author, Richard Rohr. His writing themes remind me a lot of Henri Nouwen's themes: brokenness, centeredne...
The missions agency I run, AIM, seeks to minimize the risk inherent in any mission venture. We also seek to fully disclose the level of known risk on ...
One of the ways to head off conflilct on a mission project is to establish some basic relational precepts in advance. Keep these, preserve the uni...
Because God manifests His grace through people to people, because His primary modus operandi in the realm of humans is to partner with us rather than ...
God has built us to grasp His reality through glimpses of His magnificence in creation and in the grace He pours out in our lives. I was 11, my fat...
This blog belongs with my earlier series on debriefs. 18 years ago after a really difficult and mistake-filled mission project that I led, one of t...
One of my leaders called up yesterday asking for advice. One of his staff members had visited one of our bases where every week, hundreds of young peo...
