Mission Nannys are volunteer helpers to missionary families overseas and sometimes in the USA, to give domestic help to families in stressful situations. Titus 2:3-5 states that, Older women should be models of goodness and … Read More
Roller Skate Remorse
by Cari Stone When our daughter, Hannah turned five my husband Phil and I opted out of a party and instead took her to a Build-A-Bear store. We figured one morning and one stuffed … Read More
True Poverty
by Kelly Soifer We drive for an hour or more in a beat up minivan called Old Blue. It drinks oil like mad, and its gears grind and grunt as it lurches over muddy … Read More
Jesus in Me
by Chase Koop On many Wednesday nights his weary hazel eyes would peer through his thick glasses. He always seemed to be carrying a heavy burden that weighed almost visibly on his Jansport backpack … Read More
A Life Network “Sheparding Home”
by Jill Baker One day last fall, my four year-old daughter, Ruth, found me assembling our guestroom into working order. As I shifted the linens and adjusted the quilt, Ruth quietly questioned why I … Read More
The Language of God: Another Perspective
by Vijay Jayaraman I don’t always read my copy of MIT’s bi-monthly Technology Review, but the January 2006 issue, featuring an article entitled The Internet is Broken, was an exception. This article detailed how … Read More
Book Review of Language of God
by Melanie Pearlman Okay, I admit it, I do problems in my college physics textbook for fun. Will you trust a book review by me? I’ve got one to recommend “for non-majors”, though, that … Read More
Birth of a Ministry: A Rocha Santa Barbara
by Marty Robertson A Rocha Santa Barbara (ARSB) is official. On April 11th Rich Dixon and I presented plans for our ARSB community group to the A Rocha US Board of Directors, A Rocha … Read More
It’s Not Easy Being Green
by Kelly Soifer My life changed dramatically in May 2003. What happened, you ask? As a church that year, we pursued a study on stewardship titled Keeping the House in Order: Studies in Biblical … Read More
Why Do We Retreat?
by Kristine Severson This year our family will again go to the church retreat. We first began going to church retreats ten years ago. Our first retreat as young newlyweds was a little disorienting as … Read More