If anything, this past year has taught me how bad I am at waiting on the Lord. Lament has given me a language to express my frustrations while waiting and turning back to the Lord to give Him praise and glory.

Through the unknown, God has revealed Himself as Jehovah Jireh – the God who provides. It has shown the Holmes that no matter where they are, God is the primary provider in their lives.

"I like to say when I’m talking to people, it really was just a God idea."

Like many others coming out of the lockdowns and restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic at the beginning of the year, I felt like we were slowly digging out of the mire of two emotionally and physically draining years. Could our desperate times finally be over?

Andrew & Mary Marshall discuss some of the ideas and habits around being a missionary couple, and how they make it work. 

I think we often cheapen the true biblical meaning of calling and end up confusing ourselves.

As a missionary “fellowship” and “community” are lifeboats, gulps of fresh water, of life-or-death importance.

The thing is, I didn’t pull this perception of “missionaries as Super-Christians” out of thin air. It’s baked into western evangelical Christianity. We worship our pastors and our missionaries and forget that we are all called to exactly the same thing.

Our faith is not our own, we are merely walking a path, one that many others have already walked and will walk after us.

One of the purposes of Sabbath is so that we can draw near to God and learn to rest in Him.

What does a small Hungarian border town, an oil boom, and an old Peugeot 106 have in common?

There is something beautiful when a moment can transcend language and culture. That’s what I experienced on my latest journey.