Ministry is my life or life is my ministry

This is just semantics right?  Basically the same thing?  A simple change in word order can dramatically alter the way we look at ministry among the poor.  In this culture of a “bottom line”, based on either success or failure, when ministry outreach doesn’t “work out” we begin to look at ourselves as failures, we [...]

Northerners in a foreign land

This week has been a wild whirlwind of ministry, fellowship, meeting lots of new people, and learning.
While we have been here in Jackson we have been working with WeWillGo Ministries, the Lancaster and Scone families who have given their lives to God’s work among the poor.  The Lancasters are here permanently, the Scones are interns, [...]

A.C.

My heart just cannot but thank my Jesus for saving this man’s life.  I had a chance to talk with A.C. for a while today and was totally captured by his jolly little self.
Just a few years ago he was sleeping in a dog house addicted to crack.  This took 20 years of his life, [...]

Isaiah 58: 6-12

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?
Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away [...]

Great Blessings

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they?  Matthew 6:26
As many of you know, we have not done much to solicit financial support.  Before we left we sent out our [...]

Florida

Before we got to Florida, Andy and I were feeling VERY depleted.  We felt exhausted from many breakdowns with Big Buster, many tiring hours of making contacts all over the States, and meeting new people over and over again, telling our story over and over again.  Personally, I didn’t know if I had anything else [...]

Food Not Bombs

We have had a chance to work with and get to know some of the folks at Food Not Bombs, an activist group that shares free vegetarian food with hungry people and protests war and poverty.  They had a food sharing time Wednesday night that we participated in.  They gather fresh vegetables from a food [...]

Rico

We usually take a day to tour the town when we get to a new city before we start diving into “ministry”.  During the day, the atmosphere is always different, but at least we are familiar with how to get around and such.  And mastering a bus system with 3 kiddos is almost always a [...]

Pray without ceasing, for this is the will of God.

If you don’t know what to do, PRAY.

Jubilee Diner

Serenity and  I have both felt led to do more ministry directly out of the RV.  It seems daunting sometimes to traverse city streets with a 38ft. motor home and three children wondering if we are “there yet,” but it seems more natural, and in a lot of ways much easier: everything we need is [...]