How will your next ministry year be different than this past one? In fact, how will this year be different than any other ministry year in the past? Could it, perhaps, be an exceptional year? After a year of pandemic and coming to understand the
Naomi Osaka, the globally recognized tennis champion, started playing tennis at the age of three, with her sister, coached by her father. What a great start to her story, except for one thing: Her father neither played tennis nor ever coached anyone in it. Yes, you read that right. And,
The Church often sees levels of membership, attendance, participation, and giving (even) as measures of its vitality (like, checking your vitals). That’s good. Numbers are important. But, in a time of decline, such numbers are not measures of anything but the past. What could be measures that
As of Sunday evening, May 16, 2021, 80% of gas stations in Washington D.C. are out of gas. How surreal to be reading this headline, even in the midst of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic. I mean, we are making electric cars, for goodness sake. How could we ever
Life can seem like it’s kinda out of control these days. I am a parent. Being a parent, right now, is seriously tough. I am also someone’s child and that’s tough, too. My area of interest, education, and pursuit is ministry and it’s a field
Original Image Credit: Sid Suratia on Unsplash I used to think that everyone has a calling – not anymore. It seems to me, now, that everyone has two callings: one from the past and one from the future. The one we got at some point
Original Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech By now, we should all have heard about the landing on Mars of the NASA / JPL rover, “Perseverance.” Soon afterwards, video from the on-board camera was released of the landing itself. Al Chen, the person in charge of the landing
