Why We Get Scared To Rest

I sighed and buried my face in my arms. I was two days into our time off but work emails kept coming in, all needing something, all requesting attention, all of them worthy of my time and effort. After a long and hard four months of touring, my husband and I had decided to take…

We All Want Good News

“Good news!” Stephen came on our bus with a huge grin. “There’s a theme park across the street from the venue today, which means ROLLER COASTERS!” Everyone cheered. Everyone except me. I hate roller coasters. I hate feeling like I’m falling, I hate feeling suspended, I hate heights. This was not good news. But it…

Family, Not Competitors: An Interview with Matt Metzger

Our friend Matt Metzger shares his own story about how destructive it can be when Christian leaders live in competition with one another, and how healing and powerful it can be when we realise we’re all a part of the same family. Gabriella Llewellyn Gabby has been involved in missions and church planting most of…

“Pastor” Where You Are

Yesterday we had the immense privilege of chatting with church-planter Joe Woodruff. It’s probably not an over-exaggeration to say we all sat around leaning in like kids listening to an epic story as he shared from his wealth of experience as a pastor.   If you had to distill the message of As Family We Go…

Shoulder to Shoulder, Face to Face: Overcoming Competition in Ministry

“We were all sitting in a circle, and they asked us to go around and share how many people we had at our Easter Sunday Services,” he looked down at this hands as he shared. “There has to be a way church planters and pastors can celebrate the work God is doing without it feeling…

Why ‘As Family We Go’?

Family. A word that can conjure up both joy and anguish at the same time. A word that means unconditional acceptance at the best of times, and rejection at the worst. We realise not everyone has a purely positive association with the idea of the “family of God”. So then why “As FAMILY We Go”?…