Based in Managua, reaching out to Nicaragua: Christ for the City International.
I could probably come up with a list of 100, but here’s 10 off the top of my head:
1. Always be honest, transparent, and approachable.
2. Lead by example, don’t just supervise.
3. Another way of stating #2: serve in the trenches with your team.
4. “Lead with a Limp” - don’t just admit to your weaknesses as [...]
I had the perfect Saturday morning this weekend. I discovered my new favorite coffee shop and I finished a great book that’s really challenging my thinking on cross-cultural ministry and short-term missions. The book is Serving with Eyes Wide Open: Doing Short-Term Missions with Cultural Intelligence by David A. Livermore. I got so much out [...]
Read full post...I was reading Matt Chandler’s new blog today and a post he wrote titled “Inspirations.” (I’ve got to tell you, if there’s one guy I’d like to meet before I die, it’s Chandler…and his blog is as good as his sermons!) His basic question is, what inspires you?
Here are a few excerpts:
“…those moments where [...]
In no specific order, written while sleep-deprived and without any proof-reading (so consider yourself warned), here are the moments that jump out at me from the past week with the Seacoast medical mission team:
Seeing Juan, the little boy we’ve supported at God’s School for the last three years, during the first medical clinic day. [...]
Read full post...Amber and I love waking up in Nicaragua. Here are a few reasons why:
Amazing Nicaraguan coffee
A morning serenade from our friendly “neighbors” (a family of goats)
The Total Gym (just kidding, this is one thing we’re not too excited about in the morning!)
A breezy front porch, comfortable chairs, and a Bible
The assurance that we’re right where [...]
Yes, it’s true. I’m officially a blogaholic. But it’s not just that I love building sites from scratch, watching them grow in to pretty new stops on the Information Superhighway (does anyone even say that anymore?!). I have a lot to say! And I don’t want to veer off course from [...]
Read full post...I had a write a short bio for the CFCI home office in Omaha this afternoon. They just wanted a paragraph answering this question:
“How did God call you to Christ for the City?”
Here was my response:
“I distinctly remember the first time I felt that God was calling us to serve in Nicaragua with Christ for [...]
