From the monthly archives:

July 2009

With missionaries ready to go, will the church provide a way?

by Kate Taylor on July 16, 2009

“It is not acceptable in my heart that we can have missionaries in the pipeline and need to tell them we can’t send them.” – Johnny Hunt, President of the Southern Baptist Convention
Since March 2008, Jasper and Linda Nile and their twelve-year-old son, Blake*, have been going through the application process for long-term international [...]

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Your Last Letter: have you written it?

by Mark Morris on July 15, 2009

Something new is coming in October.  We need your help – write your last letter in 400 words or less.
It’s actually an ancient tradition of soldiers and missionaries who as they board a ship, write their family and friends a letter that they think might be their final communication!  The resurrection of this ancient [...]

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The ones left behind

by Kate Taylor on July 12, 2009

Most of us realize the enormous sacrifices which long-term international missionaries make when they go overseas.  They are willing to walk away from their country, their home, their families and their comforts for the sake of Christ.  It takes an incredible leap of faith to love a people enough to step outside everything you have [...]

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What the IMB is doing for Chinatown

by Kate Taylor on July 6, 2009

Chinatown, San Francisco.  July 4, 2009.  9:30 p.m.
Fireworks were going off everywhere as I considered the irony of this holiday in this place.  Thousands of years ago, the Chinese invented the first fireworks.  Now, here, they were being used to celebrate the birthday of America.  It was, I suppose, the perfect place to celebrate the [...]

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