In our experience as team leaders, the number one characteristic that we look for in goers and missions leaders is humility. Without humility towards God and towards fellow workers and national partners, we will never be able to persevere, succeed, or to find joy in our calling as team leaders. Main Resource: Humility: The Journey […]
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Posts that highlight various tools and resources helpful for missions leaders.
One of the prevailing messages many of us are taught growing up is that emotions are a bad thing. For those of us who grew up in the West, emotions are often seen as illogical or considered a weakness. However, the Bible is filled with emotional language because God himself feels emotions! He can be […]
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Cancer, more than anything, transformed our lives into “before” and “after.” At the end of 2021, while going through cancer treatment, I stumbled across this poem by Lucille Clifton. Its message reflected the bittersweet experiences Steven and I were facing as God used suffering to refine and transform us into who He wanted us to […]
Hello from Amazing Thailand! After 1.5 years in the States for Jenn’s medical treatment, we’ve finally been able to return to the country and people that we love. There’s been many lessons learned from God through costly and painful experiences in the last season that we hope to write about soon. For now, we’ll try […]
We started this blog to provide tools, insights, and resources for leaders in the missions world. And there are so many great resources that we have learned from that we want to point you towards! We’ll regularly have these “Quick Reads” posts to provide some of the best articles, books, quotes, videos, and miscellaneous things […]
In Part 1, we addressed some of the realities of spiritual warfare. In this post, we’ll get more practical – how do you prepare for spiritual warfare? What are the indicators that you’re encountering spiritual warfare? And what are some best practices and responses for those situations? How to Prepare When we first started learning […]
One of the biggest questions we had before launching to the field, and one of the biggest questions we still get from people preparing to go, is about spiritual warfare. Is it real? What does it look like? How should I respond to it? We are by no means experts on this topic, but this […]
For missionaries launching to the field, the checklist of tasks to accomplish can feel unending – visas, housing, schooling – the list goes on and on. Not only that, we have learned from experience that cross cultural stress and transition tends to bring out the worst in ourselves. Leaving behind every comfort, support, and relationship […]