If our job of passing our faith on to our kids is job #1 as parents, how is it that we wait so long to show them the reality of it? The substance of o...
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...
Once when I was 29, my mother asked me if I perhaps I would benefit from a mentoring relationship with an older man. I brushed her off, not really con...
When Jesus asks Peter to "feed my lambs" after he's been resurrected (John 21:15), he's not talking about engaging them in a Bible study. Very few peo...
I’m so proud of our 16 year old daughter, Leah. All her life she’s had t...
