Chicago | “What can we do?” After Starting Point Community Church had to scrap more than one plan to help their community due to COVID-19 restrictions, Pastor Jonathan de la O said his congregation started back at square one with that simple question. The answer: Fill as many boxes as possible with purchased and donated […]
Missions
Young missionaries join call to take the gospel across North America
Southern California sounded like a vacation spot to Ebbie Davis at first, not a location for serious mission work. Besides, the seminary degree she was working on at the time focused on international church planting, not North America. But as she looked at an opportunity to serve in San Diego through the North American Mission […]
Midwest Leadership Summit: Reaching the nations in your neighborhood
At the Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield Jan. 21-23, Mark Stevens, a missionary with the International Mission Board, shared that immigrants and their U.S.-born children number approximately 81 million, or 26% of the population. Around 22% of the population age 5 and older speak a language other than English at home. “Our call as disciples […]
True dependability: My Maytag moment
Our family has a new washing machine. That may not seem like big news, but it is at our house. We haven’t bought a new washing machine in over 30 years. We don’t even know exactly how old our previous washing machine was. It came with the home we purchased in 1993, part of the […]
What people will remember
A few months after my husband died last year, I went on a mission trip he was scheduled to take to the Dominican Republic. It is a very special place to both of us. We led numerous teams there to help local churches reach the people in their communities with the gospel. This was the […]
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