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...
A good debrief helps untangle lies from the truth. Here's how: A few innocent little lies are one thing, but chances are, your mission trip par...
William Wilkie asks: Why don't we debrief college students periodically? Should we conduct periodic debriefing for children? When should the Body o...
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 ...
