Shelter

Shelter

We began the last session of the first day of “The Care of Souls” class and I noticed my students picking up their phones. A slow mutter moved throughout the room. After a few moments, one of my students looked at me and said, “We need to move to...
Glad

Glad

After two flights, three car rides, and three commuting trains, we arrived to Khust, Ukraine. Gary and I spoke with a local church from the story of David and Goliath (1 Samuel 17). I shared spiritual practices to cultivate one’s spiritual journey and connection with...
Invitation

Invitation

I feel excited. This week Gary and I embark on at 19-day journey. We will travel over 12,000 miles (19,000 km) by air, train, bus, and car, through five countries, with focused ministry in Czech Republic and Ukraine. I wonder if this matches how the apostle Paul felt...
Incline

Incline

The last two weeks overflowed with sweet fellowship, delicious coffee, homemade cuisine, peaceful walks, entertaining car rides, bumpy flights, sandy toes, and a variety of unfamiliar vocabulary and conversational phrases. Here are a few new words I encountered while...
Humility

Humility

(Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth) Numbers 12:3. In a parenthetical statement immediately following the opposition of Moses’ siblings, Scripture tells us that Moses was very humble and even more humble than...