DEMAND THE BEST OF YOURSELF

DEMAND THE BEST OF YOURSELF

Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.  – Jesus In my 60 years unfortunately, I’ve met many a person who has never achieved their goals. Often these are goals they once said, God told me to do this.  I’ve seen many workers move overseas with...
JOB DESCRIPTIONS NOT NEEDED

JOB DESCRIPTIONS NOT NEEDED

More and more Christian leaders are discovering what was missing from the past decades of mission strategies and methodologies and they are restructuring missions in ways that overturns a 100 years of missiological thinking. The new paradigm gets every member to think...
CHALLENGES WITH MISSIONS AGENCIES

CHALLENGES WITH MISSIONS AGENCIES

(The following is an email sent to me last month by a young man who was working in an OPEN business in Asia the past two years.  With his permission I am sharing what he experienced in seeking help from various mission agencies.) I recently returned to America.  I was...
PLAYING IT SAFE

PLAYING IT SAFE

The large team was reviewing its efforts in sharing the Good News the past quarter.  Each B4T worker listed the names of their local friends who they had spent more than 24 hours with that quarter on the huge white board and then they each listed what they had shared...
ANOTHER HERO

ANOTHER HERO

He’s dead.  Lover of Jesus. Husband.  Father.  Teacher.  Leader.  OPEN worker. My friend. And now a martyr. Shot by a sniper while out running, getting some exercise. Whether riding motorcycles, running, he was a fast paced – frontlines type of guy. We had talked on...
EVANGELISM BEGINS WITH A JOB NOT A HANDOUT

EVANGELISM BEGINS WITH A JOB NOT A HANDOUT

Maya was born in the Sindhupalchok region of Nepal, one of the poorest stretches of land on the planet, with an annual per capital income of 180 rupees, or fifty cents per day.  Desperate to make ends meet, her parents sold her to a local agent for $55 on the promise...