If you grew up in the church like me, chances are you know the poem commonly illustrated with our hands:

Formative Community:

Sometimes I’m confused by an aspect of the global worker heroes of, say, the nineteenth century. While I have no small degree of awe for what they accomplished—the Adoniram Judsons, the Amy Carmichaels—I wonder about what it would be like if I’d s...

After living overseas a few years, I was chatting after church with another expat who was adjusting to life abroad. She shared how the whole family believed their move for her husband’s work was the right thing to do. But then she mentioned how ch...