Each year, as we begin the Green Bean Project, we set our primary focus on the needs of the three overseas ministries, which the project assists. We do this because we want our primary focus to be on blessing those ministries. But, the Green Bean Project, and your part in it, has an amazing effect …
In Blessing I will Bless Thee: Green Bean Project 2019
In Blessing I will Bless Thee – Green Bean Project 2019 It’s that time of year again! As we set out on this year’s Green Bean Project, I have prayed much about where to focus. In the past we’ve focused on the Great Commission. We’ve focused on Giving a Gift to Christ. I had a …
Impossible to Done
Post Theme: Backpacks for Kids “There are three stages to every great work of God…impossible…difficult…done.” Hudson Taylor I sat down to write this over two weeks ago, but was interrupted before I got very far. I think God let it get delayed because He simply wasn’t done yet! If you follow us on Facebook, then …
Why Christmas in July?
Post Theme: Christmas in July It’s shortly after mid-night. My alarm will go off in four hours and fifty-five minutes. I should be asleep. Instead, I’ve been lying awake, staring at the ceiling with weeping heart and racing mind. Things have been busy the past few weeks. But tonight the chaos dissolved into background noise. …
Room To Grow
In 2015, God miraculously provided a home for FTN. We are so grateful for this amazing little space in which and through which so much has happened. It has housed Bible studies, backpacks and school supplies, prayer meetings, and has been the planning grounds for multiple Green Bean Projects. It has seen happy tears, sad …
May Update
Sing aloud unto God our strength
When Cancer and Ministry Collide
This is a post I don’t know how to write. Imagine that. I’ve published six books and edited multiple books for others, and yet I don’t know how to verbalize what needs to go in a simple blog post. My mind has been running a hundred miles an hour for days on end, so give …
GBP and Year in Review
As 2018, grows smaller in the rearview mirror and 2019 rushes on, we rejoice at God’s amazing works! We never really know where a year might take us, but God does! A Year of Growing Last year, was a year of growing in ways we weren’t expecting. We started the year with many unexpected, time-consuming …