The goal of “growing up” is to become fully actualized, fully integrated, fully balanced adults—adults who can enter society with confidence and provide meaningful skills and benefits to society as a whole. This growth happens most effectively in our relationships. COVID-19 has disrupted and stalled the growth of young adults and adolescents because it has…
Category: Ministry
Short-term Mission Trips Without Travel
COVID has forced churches and organizations to put a halt on sending more than 1.6 million participants from the U.S. on short-term mission trips. You and your church may be wondering what you will be doing this year to serve and learn with God’s people around the world. For some, you might not even be…
Are You Called to Vocational Ministry?
Since the church was born, people of faith have expressed their unique roles in God’s kingdom using language that conveys being chosen, appointed, or called by God. Paul said that he “was appointed a herald and an apostle and a teacher” (2 Tim. 1:11), and that he “had been entrusted with the task of…