Excerpts of reflections sent by Pastor Marion E. Criddle & a couple of members from the short-term mission team from Rivers of Joy Church. They were serving in Kenya as the current pandemic was evolving.

During this unusual and unprecedented time, we are grateful for the many prayers that are being lifted up on behalf of those suffering in the D.R. and throughout the world.  …

“Purpose supersedes death” is a phrase the team from Berea College was given while they served on a short-term mission trip in Nassau during their spring break.

In the Psalms, Brueggemann gives us a framework of the life of faith that helps us describe and deal with what we are feeling in relationship to traumatic and disorienting events.

We wanted to share good news from Goma, in spite of the turmoil of the world.  We are thankful as we read of all the ways churches and individuals are …

May we be encouraged to notice “the neighbor” walking six feet away, living six thousands miles away or isolated six blocks from us.