When my sister read the article that I just published at Focus on the Family, she commented, “I personally never considered how I could help youth aging out of foster care.” That’s coming from my own sister, who hears me talk about foster care all the time, who has been a dedicated aunt to 13 …
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World poverty is not OK with God, and it shouldn’t be OK with us. 18,000 children die every day of preventable causes, but many of us wonder if we can make a difference in the face of such a grim number. Listen to this episode to learn how people like you can actually make an …
Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert’s new book, Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions, takes the ideas of When Helping Hurts and applies them to short-term missions. In this audio interview, co-author Steve Corbett discusses why short-term missions do not always have the positive impact that participants expect. He suggests ways to improve the short-term missions …
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Steve Corbett and Brian Fikkert’s new book, Helping Without Hurting in Short-Term Missions, takes the ideas of When Helping Hurts and applies them to short-term missions. In this audio interview, co-author Steve Corbett discusses why short-term missions do not always have the positive impact that participants expect. He suggests ways to improve the short-term missions …
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Orphan care goes hand in hand with understanding poverty. Why? Many–if not most–of the world’s orphans and vulnerable children have experienced devastating physical poverty. If we tackle poverty, it’s possible to actually prevent children from becoming orphans in the first place. Here’s an excerpt from a post I wrote for the Faith to Action Initiative, …
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Yes, they can! Here’s an excerpt from my latest post over at Food for the Hungry. Recently, I sat down with a pastor who wasn’t sure where to head with his church’s missions strategy. “I know God is calling my church into missions, but we don’t have a missions pastor on staff,” he said. “I don’t …
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My husband hit a milestone birthday this year. (I won’t tell you how old he is, but here’s a hint: it rhymes with “warty.”) A few months before his birthday, I had given a speech at my local Toastmasters club called “My Kids Are Like Duct Tape.” He said that his only birthday wish was …
My friends at Live58 asked me some great questions about church partnerships in global missions. Here are highlights from the interview.
I first discovered the beauty and vast scope of God’s world through short-term mission trips. For me, interacting with another culture on an overseas trip to the Philippines with my youth group was a critical moment not only in my own discipleship, but more specifically in shaping my life purpose toward holistic development. Of course, …
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Happy New Year! Over the holidays I wrote on the Food for the Hungry blog about two churches that I visited in December. Both churches were sharing child sponsorship with their congregations for the first time. One Church – Arizona One Church is a newly planted church in Chandler, Arizona. The reason I’m so impressed …
