A blog designed to develop missional leaders
By: Rev. David Mills When I was growing up as a boy, my family didn't have a lot of money. My dad was a pastor in rural Eastern Kentucky in one of the most impoverished areas in the USA. However, my parents taught me a very important lesson about hospitality and serving in our local community. ... Continue Reading →
By: Dr. Eddie Estep February 17, 2021, was Ash Wednesday, the first day of the season called Lent. Ash Wednesday gets its name from the custom, in some Christian denominations, of placing ashes on the forehead as a sign of penitence. The ashes are obtained by burning the palm branches from the previous year’s Palm... Continue Reading →
By: Eunice Zaragoza Leal When we joined the short-term missions trip, Missions Without Limits, we could not have imagined how we would engage in missions in the midst of this pandemic. As the date approached, our entire team in Cadereyta, Mexico began to experience trials of different kinds. We lost family members to illnesses, and... Continue Reading →
By: Brett Clemmer The following article was taken from the website https://maninthemirror.org/2020/09/08/the-bridge-between-generations/ In the 1980s, elephants overcrowded South Africa’s Kruger National Park. In response, the government authorized killing adult elephants and relocating their offspring to other parks. As the orphaned male elephants became teenagers, they were clueless about what “normal” male behavior looked like.When their testosterone levels... Continue Reading →
Surprising Leadership Lessons from the Life of Christ By: Dr. Stan Toler Much of the advice you’ll hear on leadership has to do with technique. We spend lots of time figuring out how to do leadership. Leadership, however, is more art than science. It’s mostly about who you are. For lessons on how to be a leader, there’s no better... Continue Reading →
By: Dr. Stan Toler (1950-2017) “The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” Luke 19:10 Have you noticed it? The subtle inversion that’s taken place in our thinking about our mission? Where once we focused our energies on the word GO, we have now applied our thinking to strategies for getting... Continue Reading →
Mission without Limits is a "glocal" missionary opportunity that took place in the Mesoamerica Region of the Church of the Nazarene during the 2020 and 2021 pandemic. These are the testimonies of many of the 200+ participants from 7 nations working in 24 sites. For more information about the event or the concept of "glocal,"... Continue Reading →
By: Mitzi Villegas “Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor” (Pr. 21:21). One thing is asked of us: to act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God (Mc. 6:8). Christ is our reason for living! We have been justified through faith, and we have peace with God... Continue Reading →
By: Marta Encarnación “Then I heard the voice of the Lord, saying: Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then I answered: Here I am, send me” (Isaiah 6:8). In the past days we have been sharing stories of people transformed during the regional project: Mission Without Limits. And not only were... Continue Reading →
By: Marta Encarnación “He answered, ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and ‘Love your neighbor as yourself’” (Luke 10:27). On January 4, 2021, on the North District of Guatemala, “Mission Without Limits” took place in the neighborhood of... Continue Reading →
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