Growth

August 31, 2016
By Lisa Espineli Chinn
Reentry Guide for Parents

Dear Parent, In three days our youth group will be off to Florida. This is a trip they have prayed, worked and prepared for, for many weeks. Their (and our) effort and attention have been on the “entry” side of the mission experience. I am writing to help us prepare them for their “reentry.

Tags: Growth
August 29, 2016
By Linda Edwards Olson
Towards Growthful Re-entry

When you spend significant time in another culture, your values and attitudes will often change, but when you come back to an environment that has not changed, the dissonance can be disorienting. The deeper these attitude and value changes are, the more likely the re-entry period will be unsettling.

Tags: Growth
July 08, 2016
By Jasmin Rouse
My Short Term Mission in Egypt During the Arab Spring

I felt God saying that the work was his before I got there and it will be his long after I’ve left. God’s kingdom coming to Mokkattam wasn’t contingent upon my presence there. Heartbroken, I committed the work back to him. In faith, I committed the work back to him. I am not the savior. Nor am I the solution. God alone is. And I can trust him.

Tags: Growth | Missions Stories | Prayer | Urbana Conference
July 01, 2016
By Kurt Bullis
ICYMI: Posts from Testify

Back at the end of March, we mailed out a print publication called Testify to all Urbana 15 participants. While we don’t have anymore Testify’s in print, we have been we publishing posts from Testify here on urbana.org. Here they are all gathered together for your reading pleasure.

Tags: Growth | Urbana Conference
June 08, 2016
By Scott Bessenecker
Consuming the World

Since so much of my life has been invested in travel, much of it international, I’ve observed something about those of us who possess the power, privilege, and money to travel overseas; sometimes we end up treating the world like a product to be consumed.

Tags: Growth | Missiology
May 18, 2016
By Glenn R. Paauw
How to Fall in Love with the Bible

What if we don’t really love the Bible because we don’t really know the Bible? Or rather, what if the Bible we know isn’t what the Bible was inspired to be?

Tags: Growth | The Bible
April 25, 2016
By Scott Bessenecker
Warning: Suffocation Hazard

We wrap everything we’re afraid of losing in layers and layers of bubble wrap and overlook the thing which we ought to be afraid of—namely, suffocating in all that bubble wrap! All of our risk-averse padding has immobilized us; we’re choking in our protective gear.

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April 19, 2016
By Andy Kim
Our Stories through Global Worship

You have been fearfully and wonderfully made (Psalm 139; Genesis 1:26). But you have not been made in a vacuum. Whether or not you’re aware of it, who you are is intricately and uniquely linked to the communities you’ve been a part of (your family, your church, etc.). The worship style that resonates with you most deeply—your worship story—comes out of these communities.

Tags: Growth | Urbana Conference | Missiology

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