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Zoom screen shot | Grateful for you!

It is a humbling experience for us to send you our final ministry update as “standard appointment” global servants through International Ministries.

Live screen window showing Sharon, Madeline, Bruce and Ann | A Virtual Mission Conference – New Eyes

God is doing new things! Assumptions and traditions that we took for granted in our faith lives — maybe considered essential and even sacred — don’t work anymore. New ways of thinking about and being Jesus followers are taking their place.

| Hopevale – from death to new life

If we are to glean any hope from the Hopevale story, perhaps it is this: we who aspire to be disciples of Jesus are “wounded healers” in the words of Henri Nouwen.

| What is “Church”?

Have you ever wondered what it means to be “the church”? While it’s common to say we “go to church” on Sundays, theologians remind us we “go to be with the church” since “church” is the fellowship of God’s people – the community of faith – and not a building. We recently explored different dimensions of “being church” with the Union of Indonesian Baptist Churches.

| Not in the News

Here are some of the stories we heard during a recent ministry trip to three countries in Southeast Asia. God is working in and through partners who live in countries where Christians are only barely tolerated.

My sisters and brothers in Christ welcomed me so warmly | Jesus, Women and the Church

“Men and women are equal … but women are a little bit lower,” remarked the young man in a class I (Ann) recently taught.