All I’m Offering Is the Truth … Nothing More

Those moments when we must choose to accept truth and how those moments change our lives

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I am so sorry!!  We have many exciting things coming up in BlogBuzz and some fun opportunities to team with Tom Davis and actually have us, BlogBuzzers, help him write his next book!  Are you excited?  Do you forgive me for not posting a new question in so long?  thanks! 
 
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How to Help Victims of Hurricane Ike

We just got this in from one of our AIM staff in Galveston, Texas:
The damage is very similar to Katrina and the New Orleans Gulf coast area. We went through houses and neighborhoods today that had 4 to 5 feet of water in them.
There will be hundreds, if not thousands, of homes that need gutting, [...]

Why Should the Church Care for the Poor?

I’ve been asking Christian leaders one simple question: “Why should the church care for the poor?”
I got to talk with Bart Campolo on the phone the other day. I asked Bart a series of interview questions about his work in the inner-city, his involvement with Mission Year (an inner-city mission program he started), and his [...]

A Day of Invitation in Nicaragua

Here’s a story of divine “coincidence” in Nicaragua from a World Race team. The World Race is an eleven-month mission trip around the world. This month, they’re spending their time of ministry in Nicaragua. The following blog is from Kystle Longmire:

She jokingly said to two of us today, “God brought you here only for me,” [...]

Caring for Abby and The Riggs Family!

Join the RLC community in caring for one of our adoption bloggers who’s family has been recently impacted by Leukemia.

Finding the Forgotten in India

The following is from Caroline Crawford, a “World Racer” who’s spending the last month of her trip around the world in India, meeting the least of these and discovering what God is doing in the midst of the poorest of the poor:
They are the ones that Jesus came for. The outcasts… the voiceless… the untouchables [...]

Believing in the Power of Compassion

Here’s a post from Jillian Gray, a missionary, as she prepares to spend her next year of life, living and serving in South Africa with the ministry of Adventures in Missions:
I sometimes wonder about the times in my life where I ignored a person in need of compassion. Where I didn’t embrace a crying stranger, [...]

The Gift of Dance: Celebrating life in a leper colony

Here’s one of our top-read stories from Wrecked for the Ordinary. This piece about life in a leper colony by Jimmy McCarty really expresses a practical illustration of being the hands and feet of Jesus to hurting world:

There is a story from Kerala, India that I must share. While we were there we were blessed [...]

Love from Street Kids

Here’s a featured story from one of our short-term missions partners Adventures in Missions (AIM), from a team of college-aged young people who served in India for two months this summer:

Before I left for India, during our last day at training camp, I prayed that God would break my heart and show me what it [...]