Are short-term missions becoming faddish? That's a rhetorical question. The answer is: YES. I estimate that 75% of STMs are done poorly (that is, not ...
A thought from Frederick Buechner: "It comes from the Latin vocare, to call, and means the work a man is called to by God. There are all d...
Yesterday's blog dealt with the faddishness that is undermining the credibility of many STMs. The point of the discussion is not, "stop doing them;" ...
The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is St...
This may be the worst airport nightmare story I've heard. World Race participant, Jennifer Smith, who was in the remote village of San Juan on Lake At...
The standards of STM excellence that our committee compiled a few years ago is a good place for anyone interested in the subject to start. Here is St...
Say what you want about "My Utmost For His Highest" or anything by C.S. Lewis. For my money, the best devotional writer of modern times (still alive a...
I've been fasting for a while. Tonight, on the eve of my trip to Africa with a small group of people (who have heard about the horror of the AIDS deat...
Today I’m traveling to Swaziland, that little tear drop of a country embedded in the northeast corner of South Africa. It will be a journey into a l...
Ephesians 6:13-14 “…Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day o...
