Recently our IBSA staff set aside a day for spiritual retreat and focus. Since the beginning of the year, our weekly chapel services have been focusing on the Bible passages that undergird key words and phrases in our new mission statement: “Deliver network value that inspires each church to thrive in health, growth, and mission.” […]
Nate Adams
What’s really important
Crisis can bring clarity. When I first heard that simple observation from a friend, its truth immediately resonated with me. A crisis has a way of demanding our attention and diminishing the less important things in our lives. The result can be a clearer vision of what truly is important to us. In other words, […]
Common ground
Years ago as my father was leaving his final pastorate and moving to a director of missions role, one of my fellow teenagers told me why he would miss my dad, his pastor, so much. Steve hadn’t grown up in a Christian home but started attending our church with his girlfriend. Not long after he […]
Stretching, growing, learning
Most of us are welcoming 2021 into our lives with a special enthusiasm, eager to say good-bye to a 2020 filled with pandemic pain and inconvenience as well as political, racial, and economic turmoil. We are all ready for a fresh start. But of course fresh starts are birthed out of past experiences. We are […]
Holly, meet Ivy
It has been several years since our family celebrated Christmas with a baby in the house. And yet this year there will be two! Ezra was born in June to our son Noah and his wife, Alyssa, and then in September Ivy Ann arrived, to the joy of our son Caleb and his wife, Laura. […]
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