Renewing the Vows with a Miracle Ring
At the end of last year I was at a Love After Marriage seminar/workshop to work on my marriage. While that doesn’t sound like great news, the truth is that from time to time in marriages we all run into problems—whether expected ones, unexpected ones, or ongoing...
Taking Homeless Drug Addicts to Dinner
One of the things I love about going on mission trips with Overseas Missions is that we just don’t do what is expected of us. Most short term mission trips seem to involve preaching at churches, building something for people, and/or feeding the poor. All of these...
Living out the “As We Go” Mission
My checked bag had gotten misplaced on the trip home from Peru, somewhere in-between Iquitos and Los Angeles—so when I arrived in Austin I filed a claim for lost luggage, then went home. The next evening I got a message telling me that not only had it arrived in...
Finding Gold in the Dust
One of the things we did in Peru 2023 was to hold medical clinics. In fact, one of the things Overseas Missions has done on many of their trips is to hold medical clinics as an outreach method. We give people actual medical treatment to the extent we can, then we...
