Blessed by the Global Church
Team Verbo has just finished their third and final week in Brazil, which was incredible. The majority of our final week was spent at Agua Viva, a beautiful retreat center and farm owned by our very own John and Trudy White. Each January, Agua Viva hosts “overnight,” a camp run by our LifeShape Brazil partners….
Rebuilding Begins
Myrtis Martin operates a small convenience store just 1.5 miles from the Mississippi River. Two weeks ago her business was 7 feet under water. While sitting in a plastic lawn chair in the center of her store she is confident that she will pass the inspection in 30 days thus allowing her to rebuild. Today…
The Deep Purpose of a College Education
In his book The Idea of a College (1959), educator and Harvard chaplain D. Elton Trueblood identified the American cultural assumption regarding the purpose of higher education: “Millions, when they think of college, think primarily of one thing—how can the student be prepared most perfectly or most quickly to do the work associated with his…