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Simple Summer Joys)

Today’s post was originally published in June 2016. We hope you enjoy it! Ready for summer?  It’s here – with an invitation to things we often neglect. I’ve got 2 “assignments” for you today. One. If you’ve …

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Compassion Fatigue: Life in the Trench

This is the third of a three part series Brenda wrote in the fall of 2017. Some of us are living life “in over our heads” meeting critical needs of others morning, noon, and night. Boundaries blur. …

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After the Hurricane – The Messy Middle

This is the second of a three part series Brenda wrote in the fall of 2017. The evening news is strangely quiet about the monumental hurricane relief effort underway in the south, as well as the Caribbean …

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After the Hurricane Hits

This is the first of a three part series Brenda wrote in the fall of 2017. Some of us watched images of TRAGEDY flicker on a screen before us this September as destructive hurricanes tore through the islands of …

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May Retreats

“Run Hard. Rest Well.” is the new war cry of those on the cutting edge of Kingdom advance. Run Hard. Rest Well. makes rest simple and strategic because it is sacred and fuels God’s best work in …

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Making Personal Retreats “Mine!”

This is the final post of a 7-part series on Personal Retreats that Brenda wrote for Everyone a Missionary in 2007. We also ran this series in 2016.Click here if you would like to start at the beginning of …

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