OVERSEAS MISSIONS (FIRST-PERSON): Mission trips — the best discipleship program imaginable
MISSOURI CITY, Texas (BP)–Why do mission trips? I spent ages 10 to 13 on the mission field as the child of International Mission Board missionaries. After my father died and I was grown, my mother returned overseas as an IMB missionary. By getting to experience the mission field firsthand, I learned to appreciate other people […]
OVERSEAS MISSIONS (FIRST-PERSON): How an adopted people group becomes family
DAKAR, Senegal (BP)–I am typing this from an International Mission Board guesthouse in Senegal as my group prepares to return home after our church’s sixth trip to Senegal in less than two years. Colony Baptist Church in Missouri City, Texas, where I pastor, along with a partnering church from another state — Bethel Baptist Church […]
