Inspiring Encouraging Leading Serving Loving We are launching a new series for the summer encouraging everyone to minister in the way of Jesus. It completely changes our perspective when we allow His Spirit to open our hearts and …
Brian Taylor shared this encouragement for parenting with me (Hope) and I wanted to pass it on you. Of all of the things that we prioritize in our life, a desire for God should be the one that consumes our heart. May your parenting days be happy ones as you look to the future and …
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I had the good fortune of being raised in a Christian home and family. There are tremendous advantages that can be gained by living in the environment of a good Christian home. However; not all good Christian practices and customs are engrained in a person by mere observation. My parents were very committed to and …
To Our Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, When we started the whole ordeal of biopsies and diagnoses 10 months ago, the unknowns piled up. Is it cancer? Will Trina live? To see her kids graduate? Her grandkids? The summer? How does a family even function without the rock who is wife and mother? And …
Earlier this year, the staff read through the book, “When Helping Hurts”. Jonathan suggested this book as an answer to the question, “What do we do next with our friends from Feeding the Hungry lunches?” The book is a really good one, sometimes discouraging to read as we evaluate our failure and lack of progress, …
Church, yesterday was a great day as we heard about 4 different short term mission trips that happened this summer. These teams represented 28 members of our church or just over 10% of our attendance from Sunday! It was a very encouraging day! We know that many of you were touched by the messages that …
Not until I had been in full-time church ministry for over two-decades did I feel confident enough to preach through Romans. And, then, at that, I may have jumped the gun. It was like when I fell the large Spruce in my backyard; would things at the end lie where I wished them to lie, …
So much happened during our two weeks in Estonia that it is difficult to summarize it in one blog post, but for now here are a few highlights: 20 kids showing up for kids City Camp every day during our first week. We were warned before things started that there might only be a few …
Today’s blog is by Rachel Lewis, one of the high school students who is a part of this year’s Estonia team. Four days ago, our mission team left for Tallinn, Estonia to run a city camp and an English learning program. Our mission was to reach out to the children and teens of Estonia and …
Landed safely in Tallinn and just waiting for our bags.
