Leading by Serving

June 24, 2016

Photo Friday: The Little Things

I’m traveling again on business. At the TSA check today, I pulled out my toiletries out of my bag and spotted a little note card that my wife put in my bag about five years ago. I was leaving for a men’s retreat and she snuck the note in my bag along with some other…
June 17, 2016

Photo Friday: Overwelmed

Here is a picture of a gentleman who is convinced that one trip is much better than four! Do you feel a little like this guy? Carrying the weight of the world on your back? Trying to be supermom, superdad, superfriend, superemployee… The fact is: This never really works! There are consequences. You will suffer…
June 3, 2016

Photo Friday: Invisible

This is a picture of Gerardo and Margarite, a couple that we met while ministering in downtown San Jose, Costa Rica. Gerardo’s father abandoned him on the streets when he was nine tears old and he has lived on the streets of San Jose his entire life. This picture was taken at their “home” in…
May 31, 2016

Question Mark

Years ago when I was training new tradesmen on the construction site, I would tell the new recruits to do as I do- exactly– for a month or so until they could come to me with new ideas or better ways of doing things. After the waiting period, they generally would respond with comments like,…
May 28, 2016

The Power Of Your Story

Yesterday, we visited a women drug and alcohol rehab center in Alajualita to minister to the women at the center. Kathy had been there many times, but this was my first visit. During our time at the center, our group shared some of our own personal stories of addiction, rejection and shame. As we…
May 27, 2016

Photo Friday: Wonder

I love the stars. I remember some special moments in Northern Michigan away from the city lights just sitting and marveling at the amazing number of stars and contemplating the vastness of the universe. So many stars you couldn’t begin to count them. The milky way was a vivid strip running from one end of…
May 26, 2016

Searching for Home

Kathy and I had the privilege to serve in a refugee camp on the Panamanian border. The camp has several hundred Africans and some Pakistanis who are stuck in the camp due to issues with the Nicaraguan government letting them pass through their country. We spent time hearing the stories of their journey through the…
May 21, 2016

Photo Friday: Walking in the Clouds

This is a picture I took about 8 years ago in Costa Rica while on a mission trip. I shot this picture while walking on a mountain above the central valley above San Jose on a magical and verdant ridge that connected two mountain tops. Have you ever walked in the clouds? Most folks will…
May 13, 2016

Photo Friday: Beautiful World

We are surrounded by beauty. The Creator’s hand is evident everywhere you look. What could possibly create this kind of beauty and diversity? If it was “survival of the fittest” we would have one aggressive flower, right? He’s given us amazing beauty everywhere we look in abundance. Are you looking? I am a noticer. I…
May 9, 2016

You Can’t Look Back!

Kathy and I were having breakfast with a man after Street Corner Saturday morning who was recovering from a brutal beating which almost cost him his life. He was in a coma for several weeks and the doctors were not optimistic about his recovery. While he was in the coma, the Lord spoke to him…