Julie Anderson had been leading short-term teams with AIM for eight years. She felt God calling her to commit to a country and a people - Swaziland. N...
Part 4 of a series on the subject of dependency in STMs. Many youth groups for whom a short-term mission trip (STM) has become a faddish part o...
In life, many people get stuck somewhere on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. They just settle at a certain level and never go higher. The vast majority of...
Everyone wants to be happy. Everyone wants to grow. So why is it that as you look at your life, you may not be happy and you feel as though you're not...
The following from Buechner compares A.A. to the church. The church would look a lot more attractive if it learned a few things from A.A. Alcoholics ...
When I traveled to Cuba in 1995, I met Manuel Rodriguez, a pastor in his 50's at the time. The fruit of a lifetime of ministry is impressive. Growing ...
Families in America and in other western countries are too small these days. They barely keep up with the replacement rate (2.1 children per couple) a...
Third in a series on fathering We all incur wounds at the hands of our fathers. Even the best fathers have their shortcomings, leaving some sort of...
Second in a series on fathering Perhaps one of the most prevalent needs of a child for their father is to have someone to "launch" them into the wo...
