Articles for tag: Serving The Poor

September 12, 2017

Michael C. Mack

Don’t Let the Sheep Lead the Flock

By Michael C. Mack God often leads us as his leaders, and thus those we lead, on roads we never planned on traveling. Several months ago, I was leading a training event at a church in Central Illinois. As I left my home near Louisville, Kentucky, I set the route in the maps app on my phone and headed out. About two hours in, the app told me to exit the highway at least 30 miles before my next designated turn. I took the exit and then looked at my phone to see where it was taking me. It looked

New Year, New Theme, New Writers

By Mark A. Taylor We owe thanks to the National Missionary Convention and its 2008 president Doug Priest for the theme of this week”s issue. In fact, we”re so taken with the “Get Your Hands Dirty” idea, we”ll emphasize it throughout 2009. When Doug spoke to our annual contributing editors retreat about a year ago, he shared some of the material we”re publishing this week. We were so compelled then by his challenge we decided we had to share it more widely. As we considered the multitude of pressing needs around the world””and the creative ways so many churches are

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