A few weeks ago we rode with the minister and his wife up to Belfast, which is about an hour and a half away. We really liked it. It seemed to be a little more like America in that it had similar stores, so it felt a bit like home.

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One of my favorite sayings is, “You don’t know what you don’t know.” Well, there’s one thing I DO know, and that is that everywhere I go is so different from other places I’ve been. I’ve visited a lot of countries now, and I look for similarities between them and occasionally find some, but they pale in comparison to the differences. Each country and each location in it is so different, and each people so incredibly different from the last. This is especially surprising in Europe, where the…

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It shouldn’t surprise me after all this time, but it still does: most American Christians still don’t realize the need for missionary work in Europe. The urgent need is certainly very real there (meaning there aren’t many Christians or Bible-believing churches), and the door is open. And of course the command of the Lord to go and make disciples of all nations hasn’t changed, and that certainly applies to Europe.



Maybe the part that has us confused is the idea that the door is… Continue

Since we're launching our GoConnect trips to Europe in a big way right now, I've been thinking a lot lately about how mission trips have played an enormous role in my life. To be fair, I guess I'd have to say I was always theoretically, maybe theologically interested in missions. It's hard to read the Bible without that happening, you know? But my ministry path led me first to youth ministry in a new church in Arizona. (Some time I'll have to write about how working in a new, dynamic church… Continue