Posts Tagged ‘outreach’

Change her view of God

Thursday, November 19th, 2009

You don’t want to deny your kids opportunities, right?

That’s why it troubled me so much to have to tell my youngest daughter we couldn’t help her.

After a disastrous first year of college, she had to appeal to re-enroll this semester. Now she’s getting straight As. But Sunday she told us she needed $1,162 to pay college bills today, or she cannot return next semester.

Well, Julie and I have been working for years just to pay off bills from when our oldest daughter was seriously ill. Even with $24,000 in annual income, we’ve made progress on that for five years. But the last two months we went backwards, piling up more bills, mostly because our ministry costs have increased 400 percent in the last three years. We had to tell Brynna we couldn’t help.

But (more…)

How to die well

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Wikipai

Wikipai

Wikipai has died.

The Dao Bible teacher seemed for a time to be recovering from the illness that struck him as he taught in an unreached Dao village. However, the missionaries to the Dao people learned this week that he had unexpectedly died last week, leaving behind his wife, Moipi, and their two children.

At least Wikipai was prepared. Earlier he had said:

No man knows the day that I will die, but the Creator knows. Will I die while I am young? Will I die while my wife and I have only cut the cords of two children? Will I die when I am old and have lived a long life? (more…)

Let’s see, church or a bike ride?

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Isnei and his wife, Zitiila

Isnei and his wife, Zitiila

What would you do if your church leaders told you that they weren’t going to meet on Sundays anymore?

What if they said, “Yeah, we’re going on a bike ride on Sundays, so we’re moving our meetings to Saturdays.”

Do you think there would be an uproar? (more…)