I was going through some photos from our Watermark launch team days.  It was fun to look back and see how far we've come.One thing struck me, though.  As I looked at one of the earliest launch team photos we have on the web I noticed that of the 10 people in the...

No matter what you're going through, I have good news for you... there is always hope!  As long as God is alive, there is hope! I came across something interesting recently during my quiet time.  I was reading a very familiar passage out of the Book of...

I remember moving to Germany almost 9 years ago…. We were so excited! We knew that God had big plans for us and we ready to get going.We left a great job with people we loved and trusted in order to follow God’s plan for our lives. We KNEW this was the right thing...

Why? What a good question. It is a question that my wife and I are quite tired of. We have a intelligent and inquisitive (quite a challenging combination!) four-year-old who incessantly asks us, "Why?" Then, no matter how good our answer, the follow up question is,...

Like that title? I thought it might pique your interest. I want to take a few moments and consider how growing in your relationship with Jesus can make you a better lover. I guess maybe I should give you some background. A while ago I taught a series called...

As I said in the first part of this article, I was itinerating in the United States recently and was invited to speak at the RHEMA Bible Training Center School of World Missions. I thought that was a bit comical...although I'd been in ministry for over 15 years,...

Asking for Support Don't feel bad about asking people to support you. It takes money to reach the lost, especially in the foreign field. I was praying about this and God spike to my heart. He said, "They will either sow into your ministry or into Starbuck's and...

While on an itinerating trip in the United States, I was invited to speak at the RHEMA Bible Training Center School of World Missions. I thought that was a bit comical...although I'd been in ministry for over 15 years, I'd only been a missionary for one year....

Find a Mentor The transition into missions work will be easier if you hook up with an established missionary to be mentored. No matter how much you prepare, nothing is as effective as firsthand experience. And since you won't have any when you go into a new place,...

• How you leave one phase of life determines how successful you'll be in the next. The way you leave is the way you enter. Robin and I were praying one night in February of 2001. We had accepted an invitation to teach a one-week class on youth ministry at RHEMA...

I recently had a conversation with the teenage daughter of a soon-to-be missionary family. She had some pretty wild ideas about what it would be like. She was excited, but a bit leery, to say the least. In an email I wrote to her, I included the following thoughts....

Note: I wrote a letter to a former student in my youth group that was graduating from high school. He had been with me for a number of years. It was exciting for me to see him reach this step in his life. In this letter, I listed a few things that I have learned...