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2025 Honduras Mission Trip Day 1
July 16, 2025 | Lee Stanton
The Honduras team—14 individuals strong—kicked off the journey bright and early at 2:00 AM to board a bus headed for O'Hare Airport. Our flight departed at 6:00 AM, with a layover in Miami, and we finally arrived in San Pedro Sula...
Honoring a Special Pray-er
July 8, 2025 | Joyce Moe
At some point, every follower of Jesus will receive advice to engage in prayer. This advice might cause us to secretly ask ourselves, “Why pray?” Here’s a simple answer: First, the Bible is very clear that God created...
Not the Life I Asked For
June 17, 2025 | Russ Moe
I’ve known disappointment. You have too. We pray. We plan. We walk forward by faith. And then — the unexpected. A diagnosis. A betrayal. A failure. A silence where there should’ve been a breakthrough. And in that...
We Do What Waiters Do
June 10, 2025 | Jenn Adams
Life seasons can be hard and life seasons can be carefree. They can be progressive and uphill, or downhill and detrimental. But "waiting" seasons - the seasons in between, on flat, neutral ground - are quite difficult. There doesn't seem to be...
2025 Oklahoma City Mission Trip Update 5
May 24, 2025 | Kathy Smarrella
I’m sitting here on the bus traveling north towards Indiana on Friday night. Our team is comfy in our Vineyard bus, settling in for our long 15-hour drive home. We are quiet, for now, but soon I’m guessing that card...