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remember care: Sending your marketplace people

A couple of weeks ago Becky from Asia wrote an excellent post about the church and how to remember those whom it sent. One thing that I hear too often are marketplace workers from North America who live and work abroad but their home church does not see this as an mission endeavor. They believe [...]

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Remember Care: What a Missionary Needs from a Sending Church

From time to time we are able to chat with Skybridge members and other missionaries throughout the world and hear about their stories. This post is from a worker in Asia. I think this member has some good insights into the importance of the sending church and a topic I like to call “remember care”. [...]

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Revo Church

This post is a continuation of a series I’m doing on young churches that have built missions into the DNA of their church. Paul Davidson of Revo Church heads up his churches missional focus and I’m thankful he took the time to tell me more about what their church is doing to engage the nations [...]

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Veritas Church of Columbus

This past weekend I was at Veritas church in Columbus, OH speaking at their Act Like Men conference. I’ve known Nick Nye, the pastor, for the past few years. In fact he came with us on one of our Jet Set trips to London and Paris. Veritas is a young church and I’m writing about [...]

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Quality traits of a Sending Church

Just finished being a part of the Live Sent Conversation in Orlando this past weekend. The next few days I am in Nashville as The Upstream Collective and Lifepoint Church Smyrna host a Sending Church Roundtable. Part of my conversation at these events is to talk about partnering overseas and what are some quality  characteristics [...]

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Praying for success just down the street

As you may know we are in the states for a while on furlough. We are visiting different churches. I am looking at things through the lenses of what if I started another church some day in the states? What would I do differently? A couple of weeks ago we visited a church in Knoxville [...]

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The Intentional Traveler

From time to time I get an email or a call about someone who wants to use their business skills in a cross cultural situation.  They tell me that they would love to come and teach or lead a seminar or share their skills while they are doing business abroad.  I love the idea of [...]

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