Project Southwest Europe

My brain hurt. I don’t mean a headache, I mean my brain just felt like it had been in a tiny car wreck inside my skull, and was now lying in a ditch upside down trying to remember if it had full coverage insurance. It’s a feeling experienced only by those who have tried to [...]

One of the hardest misconceptions to break in missions is that missionaries are somehow superhuman extraordinary people. I think I do my part in breaking that misconception pretty well: all I have to do is show up in a church and they no longer think missionaries are special… OK, maybe special ED. I enjoy going [...]

I recently read a great article by a missionary friend of mine entitled “Unthankfulness”. He put his finger right on the problem that has destroyed many missionaries: a sense of entitlement. It’s very easy to slip into the mindset of thinking you are a hero when you are treated like one, to think you are [...]

MADRID (AP) — Pushed for space, a Spanish cemetery has begun placing stickers on thousands of burial sites whose leases are up as a warning to relatives or caretakers to pay up or face possible eviction. Jose Abadia, deputy urban planning manager for northern Zaragoza city, said Monday the city’s Torrero municipal graveyard had removed [...]

If you are like me, you have two questions about Johannes Kepler: 1. Why is he holding chopsticks in that portrait? And more importantly… 2. What would 17th century  German scientists think about modern issues? One of the great tools that we have in communicating with people in missions is Facebook, and other social networking. [...]