Semillas. Since the summer began, GI has launched 6 mission teams. Each team that returns is full of colorful stories and dramatic testimonies. With every incredible account we hear, I am reminded that each one started with a simple semilla, or “seed” in Spanish. The...
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The Real 1%
The Real 1% During our recent GI trip to the Middle East, we were once again confronted with the reality of our spiritual enemy. Christianity is simply not welcome in our world. Jesus was killed because of His Gospel message. Since then, millions have lost their...
School. Food. Jesus
School. Food. Jesus. Not every kid hates school. Shocking, I know. Quality education at any level is very often a luxury in most of the places where GI works and ministers. In Ghana, West Africa, as it is in several countries in Africa, many children do not attend...
Into the Fire.
Into the Fire. We got a van! (and a trailer) - and this van and trailer has had a very special mission: to transport food INTO the country of Ukraine to sustain innocent people who are under extreme duress as a result of an unprovoked attack on their nation. Our...
War.
War. Women and children murdered. Families running for their lives, waving white flags, killed. Trains and cars carrying non-combatant civilians shot to death. Babies being born in underground subway stations. Evacuees running out of their prescription medicine before...
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Silver Jubilee
Music Supplies for Silver Jubilee Longevity is a hard fought battle. In relationships, in work, in ministry. The longer I live, the more I realize the truth behind the adage that it is...
Thirteen
Jacobeam Four years ago we saw an unsung hero of the faith reach his eternal destination with Jesus. Pastor Eliub Gutierrez lived and ministered with his family in the mountainous area...
Ivory Beds.
Do you know where most orphaned or abandoned children end up in this world? Especially in second and third world areas? We dream of a world that would have a good home, raised by godly parents, and...
FOCUS
Feeding & the Gospel in Cambodia Musicians, athletes, soldiers. The list is longer, but these are the first three that came to my mind. People who train for almost a lifetime to generate a...
Moving On.
Have you every had a day when absolutely everything went perfectly? No? Neither have I. There comes a point when you are facing a challenge or obstacle, and you realize that the situation will not...
Lack vs. Need
GI Church Plant in South Asia It is an unprecedented time we live in. Or is it? For context, should these words be read in the distant future, the world is...
Lion-hearted.
Covid-19 Feeding in Mountains of Guatemala In one our Global Intern classes this month, (people training with GI for long-term missions), we were studying some of the missionaries who lived...
Backfire
GI Team in Thailand Jesus is Lord. Let me start with that. He is the same One that was there at the moment of Creation. He was the same One that raised Lazarus from the dead, stopped the...
Coronavirus & Volcanoes
GI Team in Philippines Fear is debilitating. I recently led one of our GI teams to the country of the Philippines. As we traveled through Asia and then spent time in this...