By Amanda Petersen Amanda writes as she prepares to visit Thailand for several months this summer. You can read some background information on her trip here. I am a month away from Thailand. How does one prepare to go into a place that resembles, perhaps, one of the closest images of hell this world knows? … Continue reading Free to Love
By Jeff Goins, Editor Continued from Lucky $2 Bill: Introduction: I used to collect coins. About six months ago, I sold my coin collection to make some extra money and to simplify my possessions. I kept a $2 bill as a remembrance of that hobby. Ever since then, I had been carrying the bill around … Continue reading Lucky $2 Bill, Part II
By Stephanie Fisk In Mozambique the supernatural pervades the natural on a daily basis. The blind see, the deaf hear, sore, crippled backs are transformed into dancing bodies. Joy is prevalent and contagious, I see this everyday. A revival is here. The Holy Spirit is taking over Mozambique individual by individual. The supernatural manifests and … Continue reading A Supernatural Reality
By Kari Miller Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. John 14:27 Life without peace is really no life at all. When all peace is gone life becomes a … Continue reading My Friends, We Are Not Crazy
By Jeff Goins, Editor Most of us are orphans in one sense of the word or another. We’ve all been abandoned, disowned, hurt, or left behind. At least, that’s what I’m hearing from my peers who decide to radically follow Jesus. Again and again, their families are calling them crazy or cultish, their friends are … Continue reading A Community of Affirmation
By Kari Miller I tell you the truth, he said, this poor widow has put in more than all the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on. Luke 21:3,4 Giving out of our wealth giving out of … Continue reading A Widow’s Mite
By Sarah Bullers There is so much to say about our time in Morramballa, Mozambique, and I feel like I have so little time to say it. The highlight of it all, for me, has been the children. I truly understand now, that to come to Africa, one must be ready to not only fall … Continue reading Eyes of a Child
By BrittanyJoy The swift movement of a Ugandan male caught by eye as I walked out of class, annoyed by the treatment I had received from a room of men who believe that a woman does not have a voice. In a split second my mind changed from self-loathing thoughts to curiosity as this man … Continue reading Trusting Your Will
By Kari Miller And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 John 4: 16 Life here in Uganda has become a beautiful experience of new relationships. Each day I have been provided with an opportunity … Continue reading God Is a Rescuer
By Jimmy McCarty There is a story from Kerala, India that I must share. While we were there we were blessed with the opportunity to serve in a leper colony with over 100 lepers. One day when we were there it was pouring rain. We had gone planning to hand out snacks to the lepers, … Continue reading The Gift of Dance: Celebrating life in a leper colony