December 26, 2014
Nancy Marshall lives and works in Orange Walk Town Belize She shares a window into a typical day for her as she juggles pastoring the Jesus’ Deaf Church, parenting, and tutoring. 5:00 am I wish I were running, but I can’t seem to get up this early! (Please pray about this for me.) By 6:00, […]
moreDecember 23, 2014
Things here have been wonderful, terrible, emotional, lonely, but yet peaceful all at the same time. It is hard to explain all the emotions. Each day brings a new challenge. The handy man work or feeding the chickens isn’t the challenge. What’s challenging is to never get done what I set out to accomplish during […]
moreDecember 22, 2014
Work with the refugee project never ceases to be an enormously busy task with tough challenges in trying to stay on top of hundreds of complicated and difficult cases of families that continually arrive, mostly from Colombia. During the past year alone, I interviewed 333 refugee families and followed up on many of their cases […]
moreDecember 21, 2014
Lek’s* life has had no shortage of suffering. Prior to his believing in Jesus, ten of his fifteen children died. After he became a Christian, his children stopped dying. People in his village noticed! Lek shared the gospel in his village, where several other families became believers as well. But evangelism is illegal in his […]
moreDecember 20, 2014
God has been in control of the Mennonite Church of Trinidad and Tobago (MCTT) from its inception. The work that began in 1974 has led to a total of five congregations: Diego Martin, Charlieville, Chaguanas, Esperanza, and Sangre Grande. MCTT celebrated its 40th anniversary in a blessed and uplifting weekend, October 16-19, with the theme, […]
moreDecember 19, 2014
Christmas is a time to celebrate new birth: The birth of Jesus Christ, the firstborn of the new creation, new birth in our own lives through the Spirit’s transformation, and the birth of new expressions of God’s kingdom among us. Starting faith communities is a lot like giving birth. There is discomfort and pain, as […]
moreDecember 1, 2014
“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.” – Mark 8:35 (NIV) I recently read about a congregation in Texas that has routinely given away some of its best leaders, most committed members and significant financial resources in its […]
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