“Um, maybe just be careful, okay?” The voice came from one of the passengers seated near the back of our white 15 passenger van. The warning didn’t seem completely out of place, as we had been waiting to cross the Mexico/US border for nearly two hours in a line of cars surrounded by a swarm of merchants and needy individuals asking for money. Last week we had squeaked into Mexico twenty-five...
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“Is it over?” I asked the question as quietly as I could and did my best not to move my lips as I held my smile in place. “I’m not sure…” It was 5 AM in Nashville, Tennessee, and several of us were crowded onto a small stage smiling hopefully into a laptop screen. An iPad on a stand nearby showed a grainy video feed of a crowd of people sitting on low benches in a small cement building in...
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Pakistan… For the last several months this beautiful, beleaguered country has been on and off of our calendar – in response to an impassioned request from local Christian leaders, On the Go Ministries had been planning several training events and small outreaches in the cities of Karachi and Hyderabad, and our entire team was thrilled at the prospect of reaching the people of...
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“Well?” I glanced up, “Any word on the ticket?” My daughter Sierra shrugged and shook her head as she flopped down onto the cracked plastic chair beside me. “I think they’re still working on it – I don’t know” “Geez,” I glanced down at my watch, “We’re supposed to take off in like 45 minutes…” We had just finished our first week-long overseas festival – a week-long event in rural...
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“God, please help this to work…” It didn’t feel like a faith-filled prayer, it felt like what it was: a frantic last-ditch effort prayer – a desperate, “I don’t know what to do if this doesn’t work” prayer muttered under my breath as my tensed fingers moved from the IPad screen to the brightly illuminated “main power” switch of our sound system. The system had frozen five minutes before...
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