Articles
Blog Entries - 2012

Impacting a Child’s Life
By Jean Ohlerking Follow, we will follow Thee our Lord… Words that were sung at our wedding continue to ring in my ears even now, two years since my husband of nearly 52 years went to be with the Lord.
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The Heart of a Missionary: The Heart of Every Believer
By John Lambert The Metric of the Heart When we talk about church growth, as Westerners we tend to many times think in terms of metrics; nickels and noses. How many people are coming to our services? How much

Three Components to a Thriving Student Ministry
By Josh Joines In the fall of 2000, with my new bride of one month and a little U-Haul trailer, Kara and I struck out to a dusty little West Texas town with a dream in our heart to change a generation for

Green Pastures
By Luke Walters Psalm 23:1-2 "(1) The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. (2) He maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters." Have you ever heard the cliché "the grass is

Does Your Ministry Keep Minutes?
By Raul Rivera I recently had a conversation with an administrator who had just joined the staff of his church. He mentioned that in the three months he had been there, he had found no trace of any board meeting

The Life of a Single Mom
By Jennifer Maggio She walks in the church and cautiously looks around with her four-year-old daughter in tow. She hesitantly makes her way to the back of the church and sits quietly, thumbing through her Bible,