Make friends. Disciple people. Reach the three billion with least access.
So, what if you wanted to get a globally-focused degree so you can BE BETTER at what you do? A degree with names like Social Justice & Global Development or International Business & Social Entrepreneurship or Spiritual Formation & Christian Ministry to use in the global space? I've got just the place. It's called Justice College.
Read MoreIf the draw to move to a spiritually strategic country — a majority Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or formerly Community country—keeps you up at night dreaming of a way to get there, I’ve got a beautiful, integrated, available visa option for you in almost any country you can imagine. Student visas.
Read MoreIn our well-meaning mission-minded, take-the-gospel-to-the-ends-of-the-earth fervor, do we recognize that it’s OKAY (and even IMPERATIVE) that we also fulfill our original role as stewards of God’s earth, animals, and its resources? Let’s look alllll the way back to Genesis to see why God made humans in the first place.
Read MoreFind out your Grow to Go Score and if you’re a Starter, Grower, or Goer based on the FIFTY most common practices and attributes of a fruitful cross-cultural GOER. Take the Grow to Go Test now.
Read Moregotta say, this is one of the most comfortable interviews I’ve experienced as a guest on a show. Bucky Elliott just launched The E&E Show on his YouTube Channel and asked me to be a guest telling stories and equipping you with practical to-do’s on WHY and HOW to get out there and make your own international friends right where you live.
Read MoreWant a jam-packed with insight five-minute video interview on how I found purpose across the street when I couldn’t go around the world? You’ll also get a peek into the church where our family worships in the round. Listen to my interview with our pastor Palmer Chinchen at The Grove—and then keep listening to his message too.
Read MoreI sat on a Mexico beach and watched a disciple making story play out. I learned eight lessons from a teenage fisherman who taught his little sister to catch her first rock bass on the Sea of Cortez.
Read MoreA journal of what I felt living with the lights off for one day during The Global Challenge: Discover by Doing.
Read MoreTo those of us who do not live in the second wave of India’s pandemic chaos, locking down for the second time, two billion of the most unreached people on earth doing a twice-dance with death—we live with privilege. What is the privilege, and how do we navigate what’s happening in India RIGHT NOW?
Read MoreThe Global Challenge: Prayer PathWays gives you freedom to try five different ways to pray, as a Contemplative, an Intellectual, a Traditionalist, a Sensate and a Naturalist. You’ll experience new ways to pray in solitude, through podcasts, with a seashell, lighting incense, holding a rubberband, and taking a walk in the park.
Read MoreWe are Hagar sometimes. Refugees are always Hagar, sitting in the wilderness of a new country, placing the things important to them one hundred yards from their heart so they don’t have to watch them die.
Read MoreGet connected with these faith-based nonprofits that have experience in specialized fields of practice. My top picks.
Read MoreOne of my 18-year old son’s best friends just died in a tragic motorcycle accident. We are grieving with our hearts split open, bleeding out our tears with no words, a constant, heavy pain in our chest. It’s also Good Friday this week. It feels like Dark Friday.
Read More“But I don’t know if I’m called to get involved with global work…go overseas…get involved in anything cross-cultural…” is a common objection I hear about crossing cultures with the good news of Jesus. After all, God called the apostle Paul to the Gentiles with a light from heaven on his way to Damascus, striking him blind in his path. Are you waiting for something as significant as a lightning bolt before you say yes to reaching the nations with the good news of the Kingdom of God?
Read MoreSometimes we believe that if we’re not ready to move to a jungle somewhere in Papua New Guinea, there’s not much else we can do to be involved around the world.
I spend eight years after university just living life. I had absolved myself from any responsibility or privilege to be a light to the nations—and even our own community—because my husband and I didn’t see ourselves living in a tribe somewhere.
Read MoreSometimes, we notice people involved in missions or global causes and we think of it as a hobby. We say, “Good for them. But that’s not my hobby.”. Could it be, though, that crossing cultures, being a light to the nations, isn’t a hobby or a cause relegated to a few, but a purpose in which everyone can play a role because God planned it that way from the beginning?
Read MoreI asked my father, who’s lived 76 years, traveled to dozens of countries, and lived overseas over half of his life this question: What are major news stories you can remember living through? We turned his fascinating answers and reassuring reflection into a guest post.
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