Bread Stories from Kenya and Uganda
When my husband Aaron was a fourth year medical student, we got to spend six weeks in a historic hospital called Kijabe. It is north of Nairobi and staying there was our first time in Africa, where we dreamed of living one day.
Part 2: The Role of History in Pastoral Care for Christians from a Muslim Background
Familiarity with history also allows for the recognition of self-worth and value for one’s local Christian community. It was striking to see how CMBs in North Africa were energized by hearing that their local bishop martyr, Cyprian, had made such a lasting and profound impact on Christian theology and ecclesiology.
Part 1: The Role of History in Pastoral Care for Christians from a Muslim Background
It happened twice, once in North Africa and once in Constantinople. I had been invited to give some lectures to congregations consisting mostly of Christians from a Muslim background (CMBs).
Visiting the Batwa Pygmies in Uganda
I just returned from an incredible trip with this team sharing Christ and giving goats to the Batwa pygmies in Uganda.
A Revolutionary Idea
In 2007, my wife, Carol, and I joined another couple from Christ Church Anglican, Savannah to attend the New Wineskins Conference. The Lord used the first two talks by Bishop Derek Eaton and Bishop Rennis Ponniah, which by “accident” both focused on the call of Abraham in Geneses 12:1, to confirm a call to Carol and me to sell our business and get ready to do full time mission work.
Orphaned Heart Ministry
In 2007, I performed my musical testimony, “Lord Make Me the Person You Want Me to be” in Uganda. I was invited to do this in the town of Hoima for 1,500 residents and also at Uganda Christian University (UCU) for nearly 2,000 students. It amazed me how deeply it touched the souls of those in the audience.
Tips for Supporting your Cross-Cultural Worker, Both Overseas and When They’re on Home Assignment
I’ve been a CCW for over a decade in the Middle East, Europe and the United States. Each assignment has come with its unique challenges, and I am always so grateful for what I like to call “home support.”
Join us for “An American Lent”
“An American Lent” is a journey through our country’s history of slavery, segregation, and racism with the hope of healing. The aim is that—through the prayers, reflections, and responses—to not only be grieved into repenting but that we would all leave this experience bearing fruit in keeping with repentance and be agents of healing across divisions and pain.
And I Tell You, You Are Peter, and on this Rock I will Build my Church
After spending a couple of weeks in Thailand this January, I had the opportunity to stopover in Laos for a few days on my back to Pittsburgh.
Kingdom Kids Create "Jewelry With A Purpose Project"
Isn’t it fun when God shows us His creative solutions to situations in our lives? That is exactly what happened with the ‘Jewelry With A Purpose’ project.
From Mission Minded to Missionary
As Christians, we are all called to be mission-minded, seeing ourselves as everyday missionaries wherever we happen to live and at whatever life stage we happen to be.
God in the Bible, Allah in the Qur’an, and Teaching your ex-Muslim Christian
In October of 2018 we founded al kanisa al masihiya fi Madrid—the Christian Church of Madrid—an Arabic-language weekly fellowship. We were meeting in a borrowed space from a Latino Assemblies of God congregation in Tetuan, a neighborhood with a large Muslim population north of downtown.
Give Your Church a Vision for the World
Most of us recognise that we live in a very big, very complex world where there’s a lot going on in the global church that we’re not aware of or that we don’t quite understand. Most of us also recognise that God desires his people to pray for his will to be done, and his kingdom to come, on earth as it is in heaven.
Make Plans Now for World Mission Sunday 2019
February 10, 2019, is one of the most potent days in our coming year: “Anglican World Mission Sunday.”
Urbana 2018: Faithful Witness
This was my third Urbana, but my first Urbana where I wasn’t a student anymore, now I was an exhibitor.
Part 2: Baptism for the ex-Muslim Christian: Some Pastoral Observations
When considering the safety of converts from Islam, a recommended practice, if possible, is preparing converts for baptism in groups.
Part 1: Baptism for the ex-Muslim Christian: Some Pastoral Observations
The number of people converting from Islam to Christianity has never been higher than what we’re seeing today.
Every Parish a Missional Parish
It was the fall of 1994 and a church plant group in the western suburbs of Fairfax County, Virginia, was excited to finally be calling its first official rector.
The First Christian Refugees: A Christmas Story
With the birth of the Son of God came the birth of persecution for His name. And 2,000 years later, there are more Christian refugees who are suffering for Christ than ever before.…
Forming a Family in India
Five years ago in a country far away, God began a work in my life and in the life of our church family that can only be described as life-changing.