My Story: The Armor, Your Battle and His War

October 15, 2019Leave a comment

On Go. Serve. Love, we talk a lot about strategies to reach the 4.13 billion unreached.

This month, we’re geared up to share stories from Avant Ministries, which since 1892 has focused on planting and developing the church in unreached areas of the world.

Through church planting, church support ministries, media, education, camp and business, Avant hopes to establish churches among the unreached: mature, nationally-led churches that desire to plant more churches, first in their own city, and then all over the world. read more

Meet an Agency: Avant

October 8, 2019Leave a comment

We heart this new, ongoing series–a virtual trip to the coffee shop with organizations to help you go there, serve Him, and love them even better. (For more thoughts about why you might join an agency–and a handful of reasons you might not–make sure to check out He Said/She Said/You Say? “Should I go overseas with an organization?”, both the pros and the cons.)

Today, we’re grabbing a pumpkin spice latte (of course) with Avant Ministries. read more

Do I have what it takes to be an entrepreneur in BAM?

September 27, 2019Leave a comment

Go. Serve. Love is pretty hyped about t his month’s focus organization: MDE–a Business as Mission org helping individuals around the world employ their skill sets in nations that need them most.

MDE describes themselves like this: read more

Meet an Agency: MDE

September 2, 2019August 30, 20192 Comments

We heart this new, ongoing series–a virtual trip to the coffee shop with organizations to help you go there, serve Him, and love them even better.

(For more thoughts about why you might join an agency–and a handful of reasons you might not–make sure to check out He Said/She Said/You Say? “Should I go overseas with an organization?”, both the pros and the cons.) read more

Why to Learn Their Heart-Language, Even if They Speak Yours: Part II

August 16, 2019August 14, 2019Leave a comment

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Missed Part I? Grab it here.

My husband and I sat with a friend who’d spent years in Japan as a businessman. (He helped me with Go. Serve. Love’s post, Unreached People Group Focus: Japanese.)

We spoke of the culture of conformity of the Japanese. And my friend related a proverb–loosely translated, “The nail that sticks up gets pounded down.” read more

I Wish I Could Explain. Or Understand: Videos for Your Missions Questions

July 31, 2019Leave a comment

You’re at coffee with that potential donor of yours. You even ironed your shirt.

And then, right over a matcha latte, they launch the one question you didn’t prepare for.

Like, “So–why are you going with an agency and not on your own?” read more

Bonus! 6 Side Benefits to Fundraising

July 25, 2019Leave a comment

1. Continued maintenance of relationships.

Let’s be honest. Support-raising propels you to still cultivate relationships with that friend from high school; that relative you usually only see once a year; that couple you’ve talked with only a few times at church, but you know they love the country you’re going to.

At times, this may feel false to you: I wouldn’t be pursuing this if there wasn’t money involved.

But you realize this is about more than money–and that the mission is greater than your discomfort. You also realize you’ve gotta persist in asking until the goal is reached. read more

#BestoftheBestFridays: What I Wish I’d Known; Africa’s Evangelism Challenges

July 19, 2019July 18, 20192 Comments

We’re back with current need-to-know missions thoughts from around the web.

What I Wish Missions Had Told Me

Remember our posts, What do you wish you’d known before you went? Parts I and II? Some great minds over at A Life Overseas have collaborated for Dear Missions, I Wish You Had Told Me…as well as 7 Questions to Ask during Your First 7 Days on the Field. read more

Embracing Limitations: When Moving Overseas Kicks Your Tail

July 11, 20191 Comment

Our family’s support raising journey chaos adventure fell around the birth of our first child. By the time he was 13 months old, we’d hauled him to 13 states. We’d lift him into his carseat again, and he’d start wailing. Poor kid.

I know that for a lot of us, the path is long and uphill. read more

10 Ways to Make Sure Conflict Pulls You off the Field

July 2, 2019Leave a comment

Personal conflict is a notorious bad actor splintering great work being done overseas. Too often, it lands once-starry-eyed global workers back in their home countries…wounded, bewildered, and even angry.

No one sets out on the field anticipating that broken relationships will take us under. But for a lot of global workers? read more

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