In the coming weeks, short-term mission teams will head out to partner with missionaries across the globe. If your son, daughter, grandchild, cousin or friend will be serving on a team, consider how you can walk alongside him or her in the coming weeks. As a short-term missionary, they will experience new cultures, close relationships…
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Time Management for the Rest of Us
I have consumed many books on time and management for work and for family life. Learning how others maximize their 24-hours fascinates me. The One-Minute Manager taught me to start with one-minute goals then review and clarify regularly. Steve Covey’s successful habits taught me to distinguish tasks by importance and urgency. David Allen’s Getting Things…
Four Steps to Planning Student Ministry Events
Student Ministries have the privilege of creating events where teens can experience God in new ways. Retreats, mission projects, lock-ins, day trips, and conferences offer opportunities that are out of our ordinary, daily existence. By their nature, they uniquely expand the space for the Holy Spirit to move. As youth leaders, we need to responsibly…
A Few Apps For the Journey
Smart phones, internet and the vast array of orbiting satellites provide a wide assortment of technology for the journey. With the car-payment offering we give Verizon every month, I try to maximize it’s use! Here are few sites you may find helpful as well. Evernote. Their elephant icon symbolizes their mission to “Remember Everything.” It has…
