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…

Field Notes (Week 1)

It’s cold and snowy here in Fargo, North Dakota, and the green, mossy raininess of the Pacific Northwest feels far away. But the conversations, prayers, and meetings with God’s people are still rumbling deep, low, and powerfully in our hearts. They’ve changed us, and helped us see what we already believe to be true— that…

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”?…

Restorers of Trust

The phone was ringing that over-familiar old school ring of an iPhone. My house phone had the same ring when I was growing up and, back then, it was exciting, it was someone reaching out to you. These days, this classic ringtone has become a nagging annoyance, a sign that someone wants something, except in…