I have a young friend in Moldova who is in trouble. She was raised at the Internat 2 orphanage, is about 19 years old and lives with her mother and grandfather in a bare bones apartment. She works, her mom works as a custodian and her grandfather receives a meager …
If you’ve been wanting to go on a mission trip but don’t feel ready to take the giant international step, consider joining us for our Mission to New Orleans over spring break this year! Our team will leave from Rolling Hills Community Church in Franklin, Tennessee and travel by vans to The Big Easy. We’ll be staying in Oak Park Baptist Church, which has retrofitted a wing of their facility for the use of post-Katrina teams.
We’ll spend several days interviewing children being serviced through the Ray of Hope soup kitchen as well as worshipping and leading out in children’s ministries along the river. You’ll see monkeys, parrots, cayman crocodiles, and yes, a snake or two, and you’ll fish for and eat piranha (mmmm, tasty!).
Last year, I joined the team going to South Africa late in the game. At the time, I did not even live in Nashville and was not a part of the Rolling Hills community. After learning about what the group would be doing while in Cape Town, it …
No matter how wondrous and joyful we would wish our Christmas to be, there is, for many of us, an indisputable dark side to the season. Most of us who sense it will vainly attempt to shove the feeling aside. We will try to drown its morbidity in purchases, decorate …
One of the things I hear a lot from people of faith is the statement, ”I’m trying to figure out if God is calling me to go to _______.” It’s a struggle I can appreciate, particularly in light of how frustrated I myself become by hearing the testimony of people …
JMI’s annual Christmas trip to Moldova has become one of the most meaningful weeks in my life. To catch that flight to Chisinau is to leave much of the madness that Christmas has become here in the States and rediscover the essence of the original event, without all the self-serving …
Race for the Cape is a 5K run/walk hosted by JMI and RHCC. The event will take place Saturday, November 14, at the WareHouse beginning at 7:30am. Proceeds from this event will benefit Living Hope Community Centre in Cape Town, South Africa. Click here to register online.
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 …
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