Don’t Let Missions Trips Do This to You
By MRP Missions trips can be amazing experiences. For us, we spent a great amount of time relying on the Holy Spirit to give us opportunities and, once those opportunities arose, to give us the [...]
Trinidad, Day Two: Leaders Conference and Being Carried by Your Prayers
By MRP I stayed up too late reading last night. I take that back, I stayed up until midnight Trinidad time (but still 9:00 pm Denver time) finishing Michael Shaara’s book Killer Angels, the [...]
Trinidad, Day One: Being with Extended Family
By MRP After a good night’s sleep and a nice breakfast, Ken, Dana, Roddie Taylor (the pastor of the church that heads up the missions work here), and I drove over to St. Mary’s to [...]
Valuing and Treasuring Guests Who Visit Your Church
By MRP I know, some will find this sad that we have to help churches filled with people who have been rescued by Jesus be more welcoming to guests. But like anything, we can fall into habits [...]
On-Mission to Trinidad Next Week
By MRP We’ve been quite here on the Lead With Joy front. Between Christmas activities and illnesses, it’s made it tough to get posts out. But we’re back. On Thursday, January [...]