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Dave Iglesias and I have been buddies since freshman year of college at Wheaton 27 years ago.Every year we get together somewhere in the world to have...
The following meditation from Buechner is profound and even disturbing. I pray that it unsettles you if you're one of those who needs to listen more c...
Buechner writes the following on the subject of what it means to become truly human. I derive great solace from his writings, particularly when I peri...
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...
Third in a series on the issue of dependency focuses on why it can backfire on your group. For the participants of the sending church, a sense of d...
Second in a series on the issue focuses on dangers to the host church. The reasons for going to a new location for a missions project are large...
First in a series on the issue of dependency, focusing on your objectives in going. If you are working with a host partner and your objective i...
I'm leaving this morning to debrief our World Race team in Nicaragua. Here's a video showing what one team has gone through this past month. And here'...
Youth minister Lizzy Robblee sent me the following email in response to the blog on the faddishness of short-term missions: I have been in yout...
