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Sending community empowers youth in Uganda through Teach Men to Fish
The saying goes that “no man is an island,” and this is especially true of missionaries. SAMS Missionary Bridger Patrick Lutalo has a team of people behind him, championing his mission. His community at Christ Church in Colorado has supported him since September 2016...
By the Numbers
A big, giant hello from Belize! It’s now the middle of February, and we have celebrated Christmas and the New Year, contracted the flu and probably passed it around, and have been taking time to go over 2019 and plan for 2020. I know Mary Beth’s updates are a lot…
Go deep to faith’s core with Agape Year
What you see in this picture just looks like a group of friends having a picnic in a park, yet there is something deeper happening. A closer knowledge of God is being kindled in international Christian relationships. Relationships of agape love are just one benefit of...
Nothing grows in a comfort zone
The Benton Family, SAMS Missionaries in New Zealand SAMS Missionaries Guy and Summer Benton are program directors for Better World, a gap year program of the New Zealand Church Mission Society (NZCMS). Better World has a vision to equip “a whole generation of young...
The Gifts of the Homeless
When God moves in our hearts, it can be with unexpected whispers of the Spirit through the actions of the least likely. Three times over the Advent/Christmas season we received gifts from homeless people. We do not know all the reasons that they are...
Kites of Teufelsberg
A few minutes walk from our apartment is the 120-meter high, man-made Teufelsberg (Devil’s Mountain). This hilltop plateau with views of the city and the surrounding Grunewald (Green Forest) was made from some 75 million cubic meters of rubble from the second world...
