The world today is much different than it was 10 or 20 years ago. While global traveling is much easier, it is also more difficult. Preparing our teams for traveling and serving in strange places (whether in the US or abroad) is essential. For the protection of the team, missionaries and national partners, here are... Continue Reading →
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What is Disaster Relief?
Our world continues to experience devastation and destruction annually. Man-made events as well as natural disasters continue to challenge our minds with “why.” Why has this happened? Why me? Why my community? As Believers, we cannot answer the “why,” but we can respond with love and compassion as we help those affected know that they... Continue Reading →
Serve Others Everyday – Not Just at Christmas
I love Christmas, the lights, family gatherings, decorations, music and gift giving. It’s a time of year when people show compassion to the hurts and needs of others. We see it displayed in the days leading up to Christmas by children taking gifts to the elderly in the nursing home, groups singing carols and delivering... Continue Reading →
Chaplain Provides Hope for Inmates & Children
On April 17, 2009 Tom Grugel’s life changed forever. Having lived his entire life in a very dysfunctional lifestyle, and searching for something he couldn’t put into words, Tom found a church and began to attend. He was encouraged to go on an Emmaus Walk and during that weekend, at 10:00 AM on April... Continue Reading →
Short-term Mission Team Timeline
They say time is of the essence. No time like the present, others say. Planning your short-term mission takes preparation; it takes time. While there may be occasions when a mission effort can be pulled together quickly, most often the preparation requires many months. No rigid timeline exists for short-term missions, but there are some general... Continue Reading →
Iconic Branding
Churches, pastors, and ministries seek to be heard in the massive expanse of one of the most competitive cultural influences in history... the influence and power of global media. We daily compete to share the most important message of life in a culture that is bombarded with 24-hour, non-stop media clutter. Marketers today constantly talk... Continue Reading →
Steps to Engaging Your Community with the Gospel
Ministry in and to the community is the most critically important, but often overlooked activity of the local church. The church gets busy doing the “inward focused” activities that serve and even appear to strengthen the church. But somewhere along the way, they fail to turn outward and engage the local community by meeting it’s... Continue Reading →
Owsley County Food Place Celebrates 20-Year Anniversary
On the beautiful Fall Friday afternoon of October 12th, the Owsley County Food Place celebrated 20 years of ministry to families in and around Booneville. The celebration took place outside at the Owsley County Senior Citizens shelter. There was bluegrass gospel music, Bible reading, sharing about the ministry, prayer of thanksgiving for the ministry and... Continue Reading →
Short-term missions and team devotions
Short-term missions is strategic for making disciples not only globally, but locally within of our own congregations. Using short-term mission efforts for disciple-making among our own church members is one slice of the disciple-making pie. No need to reinvent the wheel here. Ample resources are available for mission teams to use for team devotions. Teams... Continue Reading →
Why Cultural Awareness is Important in Ministry?
Jesus commanded us in Matthew 28:18-20 to “go and make disciples of all nations.” To do this effectively requires us to have some understanding of the community and the culture that God has called us to minister within. Race, age, religious belief, economic status, language, educational background, unique community marks of identification, major social issues... Continue Reading →