This Father’s Day weekend, Eric Liddell’s heroic life and death remind us of papas on loan. The story of
Liddell’s impressive Olympic victory while honoring God’s Sabbath in the movie Chariots of Fire never gets
old. Nevertheless …
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Badges and Bites
While we dealt with badges and bites in Tennessee this week, Ivoirian Community Health Evangelism (CHE) partners continued to plan, train, and engage in greater than 70 communities within Cote d’Ivoire! . . . Ivoirian CHE partners with whom we coordinate plant churches and impact communities. They foster personal and group transformation by following God’s lead to obediently help shift participants to live by Biblical beliefs. We strengthen Discovery Bible Studies, pig and goat production, Farming God’s Way, forestry projects, moringa plantations, bee-keeping, family garden, literacy, well-digging, health & hygiene lessons, building churches and schools, AIDS intervention programs, and training nurses – OF WHICH WE KNOW!
The Persevering
C.S. Lewis wrote that God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them. … Let us pray for each other that we will be prepared to persevere and faithfully share the hope of Christ despite the increasing hardness of hearts and persecution.
Decision Valley
…this sober reality urges us to plead with everyone within our realm of influence. “Make peace with God while you can,” before the final valley of decision arrives when no choice remains.
Time Crunch
When confronted with a time crunch of deadlines and responsibilities, we humans can quickly lose focus of people around us and their problems….
The Great Story
Our world needs a great story today! As believers, we know the single great story that gives hope to
every person. Yet, sometimes it daunts believers to understand how to share the big picture with others.
Practical video tools exist for equipping believers to quickly, simply, and effectively share the scope of hope
in Christ. Some excellent examples are prepared by Christian brothers and sisters in France . . .
Story Power 2
Anyone who has lived in Africa a while knows the impact of story power in these cultures. Sometimes the entire history of an ethnic group gets told orally in song. For people of other faiths or in unreached tribes, even simple Bible storing . . .
Early Exit
This week, Verlin and our Ivorian brother M. visited the proposed site for our Bondoukou regional agricultural endeavor. They decided to start with corn production using Farming God’s Way training integrated with CHE. They walked the land. For the first time, Verlin inspected . . .
Top Priority
I am feeling more and more that it is, after all, just the prayers of God’s people that call down blessing upon the work, whether they are directly engaged in it or not.
