Across our nation today, churches and communities are calling special attention to what is always true: life is a valuable and sacred gift from God. While science can only speculate about life's origin, the Bible definitively declares that all life, spiritual and physical, is from God and of...
For two weeks this August, a team of 21 individuals will be going out from among us to minister to AIDS-affected children and their families in Kenya. While there, they will be serving with Christ's Hope International at six of their CarePoint mission outposts, including hosting a three day...
Prior to his departure, William Carey, missionary to India and the “father of modern missions,” told the leader of his newly founded missions organization, “Well, I will go down, if you will hold the rope.” The idea Carey was getting at was that a significant part of...
About three weeks has passed since the one year mark of being home from the World Race. In that time I have started, and quickly erased, blogs—desiring to commemorate the year of growth and change; but always with the lingering uncertainty of the right words to use. It was actually the...
The following is the update one of our missionaries shared at our last monthly women's gathering. Consider how you can help care for our missionaries that we might send them in a manner worthy of God (3 John 6). Names and places have been edited out for security reasons. People usually...
In 2014, we set up a fund for designated giving that would be used for helping bring relief to the theological famine of the Global South—approximately 85% of the 2.2 million evangelical churches in the world are led by pastors who lack sufficient training. Organizations like the...
Being born and raised in southern California, there were many significant "firsts" arriving here in Michigan almost 25 years ago. That first winter Surprised, the birth of my third child and coming here to Five Points 15 years ago. First friends here in Michigan hold a special place in my heart...
A team of thirteen people will be travelling to Kenya in April to minister to orphans and their communities. There are five care points we will be visiting—there are fifty orphans ministered to on a weekly basis at each one—and we will spend two days at each location. We will have an...
The Famine This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Cameroon again to teach at a seminary. I walked away with an increased burden to see pastors better equipped to faithfully teach and preach the Word. That’s the main reason I feel compelled to have an ongoing partnership with...
I'm often asked about the life of missions here, especially mission conferences. "Do we have them any more?" "When is our opportunity to meet our missionaries?" I'm happy to report that the answer is yes and no! Under the guidance of the elders...