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 […]
Mission
The church planters among us
Years ago while I was working in Christian publishing, I was also a Sunday school teacher, and a young deacon. I had also been a youth minister, and a worship leader. But I did not have Bible college or seminary education. So I was a little intimidated when I learned that the new couple in […]
Rural resurgence: Millennials are leaving the city
Millennials are leaving the cities and finding “home” in small towns and rural areas. That’s the latest trend reported by recent research. The young adults, born from 1981 to 1996, are no longer finding urban centers and metro areas attractive. Why? They’re looking for community and opportunity. 30,000 Millennials left metro areas in 2018, the […]
Midwest Leadership Summit: ‘You have a special assignment from God’
Will Mancini declared to a packed room: “God had a dream over your life before you were born.” He told the Midwest Leadership Summit attenders people often don’t know how to understand what that special assignment is, but his goal is to help them discover it so they can live a fulfilling, God-honoring life. Mancini […]
Midwest Leadership Summit: Becoming ambassadors for racial reconciliation
“We’re not always going to get it right. “But when we get it wrong, call it out,” said Casey Merrifield at the Midwest Leadership Summit in Springfield Jan. 21-23. “Own it.” Merrifield, a leadership consultant and Lifeway Women’s trainer, encouraged Midwest leaders to be advocates for racial reconciliation in increasingly divided times. “This is an […]
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