I am adopted. Some of you may know this about me. I was adopted when I was almost 2 years old though my adoptive parents took care of me much earlier. I am a huge advocate for adoption. I am thankful that my parents chose me and gave me a home. When I was a [...]
May 14, 2010
Missions, Partnerships
A few months ago I was doing some training at a conference for new cross cultural workers here in Europe. One of the presenters was Jennie Hatchel who works on a team focusing on the Roma people group. You should check out the cool stuff they do here. She did a presentation entitled “The Second [...]
March 22, 2010
Ideas, Missional Living
I had a vision the other day that I want to tell you about. I have been spending some time with Michael Hyatt on his blog about how to create a Life plan. He writes about how we need to write out what we see as our preferred future in several key areas of our [...]
March 3, 2010
Leading, vision
As you may know we live in Germany. We have grown to love this place. Our life here is different than the life we had in Spain. My wife teaches in a high school. I travel a lot it seems with my work but I am able to have have some incredible opportunities to pour [...]
December 16, 2009
Paris. Athens. Budapest. Frankfurt. Rome. Madrid. Vienna. Stockholm. Basel. The urban centers of Europe are the new frontier of missions. Stockbroker. Artist. Lawyer. Electrician. Professor. Programmer. And these are its missionaries. While Europe doesn’t often spring to Americans’ minds when they hear the word “missions,” the spiritual need in the region is overwhelming. Less than [...]
November 23, 2009
Business as Mission, Skybridge
If you are reading this and you are a pastor or worship leader then I want to ask your forgiveness on the front end. Seriously. I am not a pastor nor a worship leader though I have been a pastor before. I have never tried this nor even thought of it til now. I know [...]
November 4, 2009
language
I recently spent some time talking with Sarah Perkins who is a Language and Culture Resource Specialist for IMB, Europe. Thanks Sarah for your work on this and for passing it along for others to use. Here are some of her ideas and some great links. This can be helpful for new workers coming to [...]
November 2, 2009
language