September 17, 2025 Flooding

September 17, 2025 Wednesday (actually Tuesday night) our church was flooded again similar to about 10 years ago. The water was only about 3 inches in the deepest part, but nonetheless, it was a mess to clean up. But we bailed all the water out and mopped up everything in about 5 hours Wednesday afternoon. We are praying that God would provide the funds and the place to buy a building for us somewhere else.

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Flawed Modern Missionary Methods

Flawed Modern Missionary Methods Summary: This article is my view of why some of the way we do things in missions today is just wrong.

Topics are:
1) Missionaries are distanced from church people.
2) We expect missionaries to put on a song and dance show for the church people, but the churches never let them actually do what is their ministry.
3) We are locked into a Madison Avenue mentality that says, only with spending a lot of money can you do anything serious.
4) We have distorted and destroyed biblical spirituality.
5) We are experts at missions, all the while never “producing” or “reproducing” ourselves.

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