Laura Parker

Community

Take it from someone who doesn’t have much of it right now, Community is more important than you think. Whether you call it family or sorority sisters or a small group, community is a tightly-knit team, maybe without the matching jerseys.  Community means friends who know your Story and can hand it back to you [...]

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Five Ways for the Local Church to Support Its Missionaries (a.k.a. “Their Peeps Living Overseas”)

Since Matt is not here with a specific missions organization {rather, he is working for a Christian NGO}, our church in Woodland Park, Colorado {where he has worked for the past four years}, has become the group that has sent us out into the wide world.  And, as it turns out, they are doing a [...]

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We Were Wrong

A Church in Texas  ran a full-page ad in the Dallas Morning News.  Big black letters, boldly declaring an apology.  No excuses, no requests for money.  Just an admission and a plea for forgiveness.  In the last two years, this particular church has started to mean what they say by radically impacting their community and [...]

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