A while back I was writing a few posts about the characteristics necessary to be the leader that God wants us to be, and since I haven’t been able to write for a while I wanted to go back and share a few more of those characteristics that I think can help all of us become better leaders. If you didn’t see the first posts, just click on the name and you can read them here. First … [Read more...]
Using What God has Given You
When you speak of missions or ministry, many people automatically tune you out because they think that they are not equipped or that it isn’t for them. Often the idea is that if you are not a “missionary”, or “preacher” per se, that you can’t really do much for missions except give and pray. Now, don’t get me wrong. While I believe that those two things are vital to missions … [Read more...]
Training to Train
I heard it said once, that you don't really learn something until you teach it to someone else. This can be seen clearly in the ministry, and specifically in missions. Our ministry verse is 2 Timothy 2:2, which shows us that our goal has to be to train up leaders with the goal that they will in turn train up more leaders. Especially at this stage in our ministry, I can see the … [Read more...]
Pedestrian Day
Here in Bolivia, four times a year, we have what is called Pedestrian Day. It is a day when no cars are allowed on the streets from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm in the whole city. Usually we cancel the morning service and just have an evening service but this past Sunday we decided to have a special activity at our new church. Since there were no cars allowed, we had to walk 45 min to … [Read more...]
You Can Help Build the Church
We praise the Lord for how the construction is coming along at our first church here in Bolivia. They still have a long ways to go, but praise the Lord, they are moving closer each day to the goal. While you might think that there is not much that you could do to help, being so far away, I would like to say that there is an opportunity coming soon where you could have a … [Read more...]