We have ministered among Muslim peoples for twenty-five years. Upon arriving in Texas we set about to learn the context of Islam here. Make no mistake, the way we practice faith, whether Christianity or Islam, is affected by cultural context. So we set out to visit area mosques and visit places frequented by Muslims. For … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2011
SelahVie – A time to pause, reflect and refresh.
I’m in a Camp setting this week with colleagues and 180 college students. Yes, I’m a little old to be hanging around these students. But, thanks be to God, they have invited me in, embraced me, and shared glimpses of their lives. They’ve all been in ministry this summer. Some were congregational interns, some were … Continue reading
Someone for Kanazawa
Dale, Dana, and Nathan Huckabay were a typical family, living a typical life in Henrietta, Oklahoma. Dale served as a bi-vocational pastor, splitting his time between his local church and the Oklahoma Department of Human Resources. Dana worked as a consultant for Weight Watchers International. Nathan was finishing his senior year in high school. All in all, … Continue reading
What’s Love Got To Do?
This is the fourth in a series of posts from Student.Go interns who are “being the presence of Christ” alongside CBF field personnel and partners in communities across the globe over the summer months. This piece was written collaboratively by Hannah Stuart, Julie Dumbaugh, Claire Kermitz, Amanda Humbert, and Grace Hazelgrove – Student.Go interns serving at Touching Miami … Continue reading
A Good Word on the Offering for Global Missions
I’ ve been celebrating over the last couple of days with the good news that receipts for the CBF Offering for Global Missions doubled in the month of July over the same month last year. This is a significant development, especially as July was the second month in a row that we have seen a … Continue reading
Following a Long-Tenured Pastor
When a new pastor is called to a church, he or she is usually aware of the possible pitfalls if the preceding pastor was at the church for a long time. These include possible grief over the ending of longtime relationships or even perhaps relief that the preceding pastor’s tenure is finally over. Regardless, it … Continue reading
A Call to Conversion
I once took a group of students in a world religions class to visit a mosque in the Atlanta area. As we headed home afterward, one student seemed particularly shaken by the experience. He leaned in toward me and said, “We could learn something from those folks about how to humble ourselves before God. We … Continue reading
When silence isn’t golden…
This is the third in a series of posts from Student.Go interns who are “being the presence of Christ” alongside field personnel and partners in communities across the globe over the summer months. This post is from Shane McNary – CBF field personnel who is supervising a team of five students serving along the “Roma Road” … Continue reading
Rain
This is the second in a series of posts from Student.Go interns serving alongside field personnel and partners in being the presence of Christ to communities across the globe over the summer months. This post is from Elizabeth Stewart, a student at Virginia Tech, who is serving at Myungsung Christian Medical Center in Addis Ababa, … Continue reading