What an amazing year 2013 has been for our international mission work! God blessed us with a $1,000,000 community center and a large hammock boat in the Amazon; a fantastic new Executive Director of Operations for JMI (Mary Katharine Hunt); an immensely gifted National Director (Sarah Rodriguez) and logistics coordinator …

I wonder if there’s anything on your calendar that would be worth 21 days of travel to get there? 21 days!  That’s how long it took a pastor in the Amazon to pilot his motorized canoe from his home to our John Paculabo Centre at Terra da Paz on the …

If you were at the JMI Benefit Gala this year you saw a video that included the girl I sponsor in Grace House expressing her excitement over the big window in her new room.  I believe her exact words were summed up by “Wow”! A window.  Thrilled!? I’ve been thinking …

I just returned from a visit to Disneyworld – the so-called “happiest place on earth.”  In three more months I’ll visit Moldova, which, according to one author who was ranking countries on a misery scale, “the most depressing place on earth.” Disney was fun, though I couldn’t help laughing every …

“Whoever tells the best story creates the future” (Erwin McManus) I heard Erwin make this statement in 2011 and thought it was profoundly true. On the evening of October 8th, Justice and Mercy International is hosting its annual Benefit Gala, and the story we have to tell this year is …

  Did you ever say or even think those words when you were growing up and playing sports?  Do you remember the unmitigated feeling of urgency and even desperation you felt to get in the game?    I remember one baseball game in particular when I must have been about …

Among children who have grown up in Moldova’s orphanages, there is a grim reality behind every beautiful face, as Jeff Pittman discovered on his mission trip this summer with Rolling Hills Community Church. With orphanages being shut down across the country, many kids are being placed back in homes where …