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In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller writes, “A true mission isn’t a statement; it’s a way of living and being. A mission is more than token rituals that make momentary reference to the things your employees should care about. A mission is a story you…

When the pandemic began in March 2020, Aaron Reichert, owner of Krank’s Cycle had some tough decisions to make. His business made money renting bicycles to tourists staying in local hotels. When the hotels were empty, Reichert decided to begin going door to door to repair bicycles. His crew also began…

In March, 2019 two doctors from a hospital in Papua New Guinea spoke at a church in the United States telling the congregation about a critical need for teachers in their school for missionary children. Though neither had ever been on a mission trip, except for a brief trip to Mexico or Canada, Kathy…

Hubert Davis accepted the Head Coaching position as the North Carolina basketball coach just four days after Roy Williams retired. But he isn’t just returning to the school where he played from 1988-92 to win basketball games—he is on a mission. In 2014, he explained why he accepted the assistant coaching…

Rodney Smith Jr. set out on a personal mission several years ago. He owns half of lawn care business in Alabama and often helps people who are unable to mow their own lawn because of age, disability, or being a busy single mom. He wanted to travel America and mow the lawns of military veterans in all…

In his book, Leading Major Change in your Ministry, Jeff Iorg writes, “Over time, mission drift occurs in almost every organization. Followers and leaders alike can lose focus of their ministry’s true purpose and allow their efforts to become more about meeting their needs than fulfilling the organization’s…

Perhaps the most iconic scene in all the Star Wars movies is from the very first one at the end of the movie. Remember when Luke is traveling down the Death Star trench, with only one shot to take, he fires the torpedoes into the impossibly small hole in order to destroy the planet-destroying weapon.…

A mission in Mississippi helps people who have seen better days by teaching them to work on motorcycles owned by people who have also fallen on hard times. The Mission at the Cross houses 25 men at a time. Daily activities include mentoring and other programs to build character and develop new skills.…

Immigration is a big topic in US and world politics. It also impacts mission work. How? During the last century, Latin American Protestants rose from 50,000 in 1900 to 64 million in 2000, according to Evangelical scholar William Taylor, with Pentecostal and charismatic churches making up three-quarters…

Mikel McLaughlin has an impressive 560 friends on Facebook. While looking over that list, McLaughlin realized that he did not actually know most of those people so he set out to change that. The Minnesota native messaged a few friends and asked them if they wanted to meet for some quality time. Then,…

In the movie The Mission, Robert DeNiro's character, Mendoza, a kidnapper and slave trader of the indigenous people of South America, repents from his ways and turns to God. Mendoza repeatedly carries a load of armor tied to his body while climbing up a cliff as a form of penance for killing his brother…

Ward Brehm went to Africa with his pastor nearly twenty years ago. That trip changed his life forever. While there, Brehm saw people who were chronically malnourished, children going blind for lack of inexpensive medicine, and other people dying of AIDS. He came back from the trip feeling a call to speak…

In August of 2012 NASA landed a rover on the surface of our neighboring planet Mars. It should provide some good research and fantastic pictures for some time to come. It is not without some persistence and patience that it is there. Of the 41 missions sent to Mars by various space agencies, 26 have…

EVANGELISM "Bruce" walks through the church door out into the warm Columbian evening and begins panning the horizon to see if he can see the missing person from his party. Bruce doesn't get shook easily. Back home, he's a tough negotiator, a leader in his church and community. But the guerillas in the…

ENCOURAGEMENT Jake Bronstein is on a mission to let people know that someone loves them. Bronstein plans to send 1,000 hand-written love letters to people around the world. Bronstein says the idea started as one of many ideas he posted on his web site designed to help people have fun. He offered to send…

Endurance "Now some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and turned the crowds into a murderous mob. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of the city, apparently dead. [20] But as the believers stood around him, he got up and went back into the city. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe." (Acts…