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Thriving Chapter Planting & Partnerships in the Middle of a Pandemic
In the spring of 2018, Suburban Philadelphia Area Director Justin Tibbels agreed with regional leaders to expand his area鈥檚 reach to include northeastern Pennsylvania, largely in response to 果冻视频鈥檚 2030 Calling to reach every corner of every campus.
Book Review: Sheila Wise Rowe鈥檚 Healing Racial Trauma
By sharing real-life stories of racial trauma, including her own, and how people overcame it, Rowe gives guidance to readers on how they, too, can find healing.
Thriving in the Matrix: A Call to Social Media Breaks
Sometimes it feels like we live in the Matrix. These days, what鈥檚 real or simulated blurs into confusion. We鈥檙e Zoom Zombies submerged in social media, navigating the news as we confront new constrictions.
The Ministry of Physical Presence
God had a clear plan for making us physical beings鈥攖here鈥檚 something more to gathering together than just breathing the same oxygen.
The Frog Queen鈥擴sing Social Media to Serve Others
Six days. 200,000 Instagram followers. Meet Joie Parma, a sophomore in The University of Texas at Austin鈥檚 Asian American 果冻视频 chapter鈥攁lso known as the Internet鈥檚 Frog Queen.
The Narrative of the Gospel Versus the Narrative of the World
It feels like the world around us has been swept up in a narrative of life to death. But this is not the narrative of the gospel.
Looking Back, Around, and Forward this School Year in a Pandemic
School just started and it鈥檚 not what you鈥檝e ever imagined college to be like. Instead of moving into the dorms, you鈥檙e stuck at home. Instead of all the welcome events with free food at the beginning of the year, you鈥檙e attending one Zoom call after another. It鈥檚 easy to focus on all the things we鈥檙e missing out on this season.
If you鈥檙e like me, you may be struggling with FOMO, worry, and complaints.
While it's important to acknowledge what's hard and mourn what we've lost, it's equally if not more important to recognize the gift of the pandemic as the new school year begins. Perhaps there are unprecedented opportunities God has for us during this unique season.
Why Do Evangelism in a Time of Crisis?
We need to remind ourselves that we do evangelism in a time of crisis not to fill some 鈥済ood-Christian quota鈥 but because it鈥檚 good for our souls.
4 Tips for Navigating Conversations about Current Events
With sheltering in place and so many world-altering events happening right now, intense, loaded conversations are becoming increasingly common. Yet doing anything else may sound better than talking about something so potentially divisive (any Enneagram 7s or 9s here?). But how will these issues ever be resolved if they aren鈥檛 first acknowledged?
Coming Full-Circle鈥擶orld Changers Developing World Changers
Christine never could have guessed how God would reward her faithful years in ministry by blessing her daughter in the most unexpected way.