Brent Kooi, Update
Covid vaccine rollout in Australia has been slow. 30% of Aussies don’t intend to get vaccinated and the other 70% are in no hurry because Australia’s shutdowns have been successful. Until the majority of Aussies are vaccinated, the country’s borders will not reopen. It could be mid-2022 before Brent Kooi is able to move. In…
Read MoreEquipping Leaders Int’l Update
Recently, a group from Equipping Leaders International (ELI) took a ten-day journey to Liberia. They taught classes to 42 trainers and 36 of their spouses, distributed Bibles and visited Hope and New Hope Academies. Dr. Lamar Hester, a ruling elder at Lakeland Presbyterian Church was part of the team. He responded to health concerns and…
Read MoreChris and Josephine Hatch, Update
Chris and Josephine Hatch are currently in Kenya, spending time with Josephine’s family and visiting the Serge mission teams there. They’ve gone through lots of transition in May. Chris completed his exam that moved him from a PhD student to a PhD candidate; he still has research to conduct and a dissertation to write, but…
Read MoreTrey and Kiki Adams, Thailand
On Monday, the Adams headed south to Bangkok after about three months of traveling and an extended stay in Chiang Mai. In Bangkok, the Adams will begin searching for a house in the midst of COVID restrictions. Pray that God would provide a home for them to live in and use as a hub for…
Read MoreRight Color, Wrong Culture by Bryan Loritts
We’re narrative creatures, and sometimes the best way to make a point is by telling a story. Bryan Loritts calls his book Right Color Wrong Culture a ‘Leadership Fable.’ It’s a fictional account of a Christian school wanting to move out of a ‘transitioning’ neighborhood to a better part of town. They would do a…
Read MoreDiane Johnston, Life for Little Lambs
In January 2021, Diane Johnston started Life for Little Lambs, a ministry to children in the Metro Jackson Area. Diane serves as the Executive Director and Lead Teacher of this exciting ministry. Life for Little Lambs strives to reach preschool-aged children and children in afterschool programs and teach them about the Bible and “that Jesus…
Read MoreFull Count Baseball, Fundraiser
Full Count Baseball Ministry exists to “encourage, teach and develop youth to model a Christ-like behavior utilizing the fundamentals of baseball.” The Full Count Warriors have been enjoying an exciting baseball season of practices, games, and team building. As the season winds down, the team has been given an opportunity to participate in a Summer…
Read MoreGrace Defined and Defended by Kevin DeYoung
The Canons of Dort were written in 1619 in response to the Remonstrance of 1610. Hey, wake up! Did I lose you? Sometimes we have a “present bias” where we give more weight to things in our particular period or time and discount things from another era. But Kevin DeYoung wants us to cherish this…
Read MoreBrent Kooi, Sydney Australia
Our missionary of the week is Brent Kooi, who is preparing to serve with the MTW team in Sydney, Australia. Over the past few months, Brent has been traveling between Jackson and Birmingham, working with The Birmingham Missions Cohort, a ministry of Mission to the World (MTW). The Birmingham Missions Cohort (B-MC) is “an intentional…
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