Research into Resources
So yesterday the World Health Organization upgraded the swine flu epidemic from a 4 to a 5 (with 6 being the maximum). All countries are encouraged to implement their pandemic protocols immediately.
I’m glad that as of the time I…
My church is (slowly) learning more about partnering in missions. One of the things I have appreciated over the past few years is learning from the example of our adopted sister-church in Ensenada, Mexico. The husband-wife pastor team is often…
Guest blogger April Diaz is an FYI Advisory Council member and serves as the Next Gen Pastor at Newsong Church in Irvine, CA.
Love can’t love from a distance. I’ve already been asked a few times “why are you adopting…
A curriculum excerpt from Deep Justice Journeys designed to help you engage your whole church before, during, and after you mission trips with students.
Last week I spoke about Deep Justice Journeys at the Willow Creek Shift Conference. During my seminar, we talked about how we could tangibly help folks who are homeless in our communities.
One youth…
Last month we invited Jesse to share about his church’s journey in leading students into acting justly. This month Jesse gives some hands-on advice for using technology to tell stories through the medium of video.
This video was created by students at Lake Avenue Church in Pasadena to create awareness about human trafficking and spur response to this great need.
Guest blogging at YS today about students taking 3 steps forward and 2.93 steps back in our attempts at short-term missions. Check it out and join the conversation!
You can now watch Kara’s general session talk from this morning at Shift, called “Sticky Faith”.
What do you think? What does it take to make faith stick?
Adam has a great post about Deep Justice Journeys today. We’re excited about the leverage around the book release…and even more excited about the important conversations and Kingdom re-visioning that’s happening around short-term missions!
