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Thursday Prayer Focus: Elder-led Communities
Many communities where Pioneer Bible missionaries serve are led by elders. These leaders, respected for their age and experience, oversee their communities’ social and spiritual lives. People listen to them, accept their decisions, and follow the examples they set....
The Signal and the Strength: A Poem Inspired by Acts 1-2
Before the ends of the earth, there was an end. Before the Spirit came, the Savior left. And they waited — not looking at the sky for the return of what was past, but devoting themselves to prayer for the revealing of what was promised. Do not look for times and...
Why Can’t I Tell?
I clicked the “End Call” button on my Zoom screen. I had just spent the past hour meeting with someone working in the Disciple Making Movement arena in a place where secrecy is vital. Nour had related some amazing stories of how God is moving among Nour’s people. I...
Dancing in the Dust
Research notebook? Check. Fully charged phone doubling as a recorder? Check. Diapers for the baby? Check. I headed out to the refugee camp to meet some well-known Naas musicians with my 5-month-old baby in tow. As we ducked down to enter the low door of the first...
I Am a Foreign Weirdo
Being an alien and stranger is no fun. Ask me about it. Everywhere we go, people stare at us. They grab at us to touch our skin and hair. They unashamedly point and stare at us in public. They sometimes treat us like royalty, bestowing on us white privilege...