A lifeline for sharing, sharpening
As you read these words, the 2021 year has just begun. Yet, I am writing in 2020—a year that will not soon be forgotten,...
Church Planting Council approved
Following up previous conversations about USMB church planting, the USMB National Strategy Team (NST) presented its plan for adopting a new national Church Planting...
Five minutes with Luke Haidle
On a Friday filled with sermon prep, a hospital ethics committee meeting and childcare duty while his wife taught school, Luke Haidle found time...
Loving in return
Last fall as we began planning the 2020 editorial calendar, associate editor Janae Rempel and I were excited to try something new—a year-long theme...
We survived COVID-19
Harold and Phyllis Schroeder attend Buhler (Kan.) MB Church. They live on a farm outside of Buhler, about a mile west of where Harold...
Give thanks in everything
Over the past several months as we’ve experienced the awful ramifications of the coronavirus, horrific wildfires in multiple places, major hurricanes, disturbing rioting and...
The gift of today
When my husband, Jeff, and I were first married, we received some memorable wedding gifts. Some gifts were part of a registry that we...
The challenge of choosing between achievements, life
“My greatest example of a leader is Ernest Shackleton,” I read one evening in a German Christian magazine. Intrigued by this name I had...
