Stories

Jesus’ approach to money is not so much as a steward as it is a kind of radical, daring investor—almost an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist. Jesus presumes stewardship, which accords...

When a YoungLife leader shared at Jane Barnett’s church about the need for more volunteers to work with middle schoolers in nearby Chattanooga, Jane thought to herself, “Well, my life...

The first person to make a nativity scene was Francis of Assisi, in 1223 AD. Francis’ imagination was so captured by the “lowness” of Jesus’ birth that he dramatized it,...

In 2011, Rami and Shirley Rivas attended a training for the Person of Jesus study -- and there was no looking back. After that training, Rami preached through all 46...

A college internship landed Stefani Sequeira, a psychology major from Nicaragua, in a therapy center in Mexico that served young adults with disabilities. As she got to know them, she...

I was sitting on my back patio reading A Praying Life when my six-year-old son came up and he asked me what I was reading. I told him, “I’m reading this book...

All around me, I see the saints doing this work of ministry, building up the body of Christ and participating in God’s work of making things new. When church buildings...

I was 11 years old when I got my first lesson in nonprofit management. An ad in a Boy’s Life Magazine caught my eye. Here are a few principles God has...

It’s an unlikely story, the kind of thing that would never make it into a strategic plan, but it has God’s fingerprints all over it. Our West Coast and East...

Studying Jesus’ suffering on the way to the cross can feel heavy and dark, like one bad thing after another. But in this time of incredible pressure, his compassion, his...

When Pastor John Caprine asked Colin Millar, seeJesus’ European Coordinator, if he’d come to Las Vegas to lead a seminar at Summit Ridge, Colin recalls, “I really had to stop...

Our Bethesda team traveled to Santiago, Chile to lead a training for disability ministry leaders with Semejantes, a Chilean Joni & Friends ministry partner. The Semejantes Coordinator quickly caught Bethesda’s...