Holidays without Regrets

It’s that time of year…we love when it comes, then we are glad to see it go.  What if we could go into the season making better choices?  That way we come out of the season with a better experience. 1. Be a wiseman when it comes to eating… Did you know that the Calorie Control Council has calculated that the average American will consume 4,500 calories on Thanksgiving alone!1...

A call to prayer…

I was awakened this morning again to the Islamic call to prayer.   I have traveled to enough countries in the 10/40 window that it doesn’t alarm or frighten me like it did at first.   It is a daily reminder to the mission we live.  It simply is a statement of awareness that I am not in “Kansas anymore.”  While on this vision and prayer adventure trip, we have been exposed to...

Open door, cluttered minds

He sat at the next table, but I could tell he was trying to listen in on our conversation.  He was leaning back in his chair with his Turkish chia in one hand and a cigarette in the other.   At that moment, I was at the adjacent table carrying on a cultural exchange with six college students from the local university.   The five Turkish men at my table, and one female from Bulgaria,  had...

Oh, No to Status Quo

Pressing on, moving ahead, dreaming big, and making the next move is something I have never had a hard time with.  Sure you have to be calculated and educated on your moves and not run blindly into the future.   I don’t want to be presumptuous.  I want to meet the world in the morning.  I don’t want the world to come to me and find me sleeping.  I do some of my best work between...

Serving up Jesus Sandwiches in Joplin

They are more than numbers…they are people.  Though the number of deaths continue to climb to over 130, and the number of missing falls below 200, each number is a person.  That’s what we have to remind ourselves again and again.  They are a body, soul and spirit, each one.  GPC and the teams that our going up to Joplin daily are doing more than moving heaps of trash, they are...