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Have You Heard A Calling?

"I will go, I will go / I will go Lord send me / To the world, to the lost / To the poor and hungry / Take everything I am / I'm clay within your hands / I will go, I will go - send me" -Starfield "I Will Go" Saying th…
Hindu Blessings and The Law of Love

Several years back, at the church I attended during college, one of their sponsored missionaries asked if he could organize a brief little missions trip. Not a month-long, nor even a week-long, but only for a day: this…
Social Injustice is Faceless No More

When Stephen Christian went on a mission trip to Haiti with friends Sarah Freeman and Seth Cain, the Anberlin frontman got more than he bargained for. What the trio experienced in the city of Jacmel, seeing the impact …
Have You Ever Been Someone's "Christian" Project?

On one of my mission trips, I was helping the director of missions at a church for the summer. While I was there, I would stay at the houses of various church members in one week blocks. Every Sunday night, I would unp…
Worship Songs: What Will We Sing When We're Old?

When I went to church as a kid we always sang hymns. I know a lot of hymns for someone my age. One summer, just after graduating from high school, I served as a domestic missionary to South Carolina. Part of my work in…
Video: Missions in Honduras, 12-Year-Old Sings Hosanna

Over spring break this year I went on a missions trip to Roatan, Honduras. It was, to say the least, an amazing experience. I went with a big group of students from my Christian fellowship at school. On one particula…
Recognizing the Holy Spirit: Taking Showers in Haiti

by Dean Lusk When someone comes to Christ, he is to leave his old ways behind and take on the new nature -- the nature of Christ -- as he moves forward. (Let me clarify that the separation from the old happens after w…
The Book of Acts vs. Mission Style

I just finished the second week of my summer class entitled "World Missions and the Local Church." So far the class discussion has primarily been a big let's-bash-the-way-missions-is-currently-done fest. The big complai…
Loneliness: Part of the Christian Life?

Being/living in another country (especially alone) can sometimes be VERY hard. Even Jesus went through isolation and loneliness! I think that everyone who is in ministry has gone through/has to go through isolation and…
Have You Ever Gone on a Missions Trip?

As I've grown deeper in my relationship with Jesus Christ over the past couple years, I've investigated and delved into various venues to put my faith into action. Christian organizations on my college campus have fi…