“…who, for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame” I think I got a very small, but unforgettable taste of what it must have been like for the Messiah to “empty himself” from our just completed mission trip to India. Here’s what I mean, …
Here are two questions God asked in the Old Testament that ripple down through the ages with hurricane force to you and I today: Where are you? Who will go for us? The first was asked of Adam and Eve while hiding from God in the Garden of Eden. They …
Dear JMI Friends, On behalf of our staff; our orphan friends in frozen Moldova; our impoverished children in Red Hill, South Africa; our tribal friends in the jungles of Brazil; hundreds of Christian leaders from all over Ecuador; and our newest and youngest friends from the orphanage in Jacmel, …
What is it like to celebrate Christmas in Moldova? It’s being with orphans who want nothing more than to be loved and to love back. It’s giving gifts to kids who wouldn’t have received a single present. It’s cold snowball fights and warm hugs. It’s private fireworks displays. It’s decorating …
In the Celtic tradition, there is a notion called “thin places.” Thin places are the places and moments where the curtain between heaven and earth seems almost transparent. Though I can’t prove it, I suspect my father-in-law was in one of those places days before he died. There were moments …
On Sunday afternoon, August 29th, JMI On-Call was officially launched as a new ministry for Justice and Mercy International. JMI On-Call will organize medical/dental mission trips to any place on the globe that is currently being served by JMI, but is not limited to those countries. Requests to consider new …
A reporter friend of mine in North Carolina wrote today to set up a phone interview. She wants to hear about what stirred JMI’s interest to open Grace House in Moldova. I think the following testimony by one of our girls says it all much better than I can. (I’ve …
I love getting messages from kids I know in Moldova. Not only is the content of what they say important to me, there is something quaint and endearing about the familiar misplacement in translation of subject and predicate or the omission of articles or intransitive verbs in their sentences. Here’s …
Isaiah 58 is a butcher knife that cuts through the heart of everything we regard as holy. It begins with a whine and ends with a wallop! God’s people are perplexed at why He isn’t moved by their worship, zeal, fasting and humility. They imagine they are doing all the …
This May I was able to fulfill a dream from my childhood of traveling down the Amazon River…well, a piece of the Amazon just out of Manaus, Brazil. Although it was a mission trip through our partner, Ray of Hope, my heart was as set on seeing enormous snakes hanging …
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