by Marvin Slaton | Sep 27, 2017 | Uncategorized, Missions Articles
Recently I had the opportunity to teach two bible classes at a local Christian school. There is quite the age and maturity difference between sixth graders and tenth graders, but the bible has a wonderful way of relating to both. Acts chapter three was the...
by Marvin Slaton | Aug 16, 2017 | Uncategorized, Missions Articles
It’s so easy to slide into the routine of wishing we could be more like someone else. We get tired of the same ol’ us and we wish we were more like this person or that person. It can happen to the best of us. I’m not faulting you. The problems is...
by Modern Day Missions | Mar 20, 2017 | Missions Articles, Uncategorized
*This is the first in a two-part series on Brazil. I didn’t plan on being in Brazil during the world famous “Carnival” season. As a typical American, I thought that Carnival was synonymous with Rio, but I soon learned that Carnival happens all over Brazil. Here I was...
by Modern Day Missions | Jul 15, 2016 | Missions Articles, Uncategorized
Recently I got a call from Gateway Jewish Ministries to visit a Jewish man in Frisco hospital who had terminal cancer. Many had shared with him and been praying but no one had been able to lead him to his Messiah. They told me he had possibly only hours to live and...
by Modern Day Missions | Jun 27, 2016 | Missions Articles, Uncategorized
For many years now, the Middle East has been on my heart. Newer to my line of sight is the current refugee movement. I say refugee movement, rather than refugee crisis, because as a community, we feel strongly to refer to this as such. We have been inspired to use...
by Modern Day Missions | Jun 27, 2016 | Missions Articles, Uncategorized
¨I wish you were my daddy!¨ She nonchalantly said as she hugged Ronald goodbye. It was a day like any other. We had known Jasmine and her family since she was little older than a toddler, and spent many hours with her an the children and youth in her neighborhood in...