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One of my favorite things to hear each Fall is “It’s football time in Tennessee”. You have to imagine that in a loud and Tennessean accent. This is what the announcer screams over the microphone as the Tennessee Vols come out to the field. Well, this post is not about UT football. We have to [...]

One of the guys who went with us on the Jet Set was Marshall.Great guy from Houston.His parents are very well respected workers that served in Europe. Marshall spent some of his days as a youth in Barcelona but I will not hold that against him. smile. I hope you will take a look at [...]

In many ways our end game at Upstream is to help the church think and act as a missionary. Though we are finished with this trip the conversation continues with these churches. Many of them have us back to their places where we can start engaging in a conversation with their church. Our next trip [...]

One of the things we do on these trips is meet people who have a wide variety of ministries. I was really struck the other evening when we went downtown to an area where there are a lot of single mothers just trying to survive. Many are without hope. Take a look at a story [...]

I have learned some lessons this week. We normally line up some guest speakers who are from the country we are visiting. One day during our trip, we heard a guy talk about presenting the gospel. He used “EvangeCard” which is a type of tract. I am not a real big “gospel tract” user. I [...]

When I visited the temple today I saw many rooms with gods in them. We heard this from a worker here.“People become what they worship.” When I saw the gods on the altars here it was very apparent that people worship idols. As you walk down the streets you will see many of the buildings [...]

Half of the challenge in an urban environment is how do you get from one place to another?On these trips we do a lot of: walkingmetroand even riding a bus Sometimes though it is easier if you are in a crunch to cram into a taxi but it can be dangerous. For some really good [...]