Articles from March 2017

Beach Reach is one of the most powerful, exhausting and challenging mission trips that college students can experience during their spring break. 

Last week, I participated in a mission trip in my own city of Houston. Although I have missionary in my intern title, I hadn’t been a part of a short-term mission experience since the beginning of college. 

It has been 10 years since the formulation of the Texas Baptists Church Starting Process. The process was planned with 15-20 subject matter experts gathered from around the state that included DOMs, church planters, educators, consultants and Texas Baptists staff in a room at the Convention. 

As Pastor and Church Planter Jordan Wilson stands back and reflects on all God has done in the three-and-a-half years since  Tyler County Country Church (TC3) began, he is truly in awe. 

Can one week really change the course of your life? That’s the question Daniel Ortiz was asking when he heard about a short-term missions opportunity through Go Now Missions.

What breaks your heart? When you see a people group, a community or a neighborhood that is not being reached with the Gospel, are you compelled to action?

Having taught at Hardin-Simmons University for almost two decades, I am more invested in Hardin-Simmons than in any other school of which I have been a part. 

Monica was like a lot of women who come to the growing network of house churches Paul Gonzales leads on the west side of San Antonio. She was struggling in her relationship with her live-in boyfriend of 10 years and didn’t know where to turn.

Five dollars will buy a venti coffee at Starbucks. Five dollars also is the average daily living wage of the Lenca, the poorest people group in Honduras.

Linda, a ministry volunteer, gently challenged Tamara with two poignant questions. Why do you always come with your hand out? Why don’t you come and serve?