by krista | Mar 5, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Complaining is SO easy. I mean, seriously, there is just so much to complain about – the jerk who cut me off while I was driving, the guy at church who wears so much cologne my eyes water when I get within ten feet of him, the ridiculously low lighting at my...
by krista | Mar 1, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
No matter what the self-help gurus say, we can’t do anything we want. We’re not all winners all the time. Some dreams will never come true. And we need to learn to deal with that. We need to know how to be losers. Some of us will play softball for a whole...
by krista | Feb 28, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
What does it mean to be a long-term missionary overseas? I used to think it meant living in the jungle eating bugs. Ewww and eww. But that isn’t it. Well, except for some. Being a missionary overseas means doing what God has called you to do in another country....
by krista | Feb 24, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Just in case you were wondering…we don’t have to go anywhere to be part of missions. There is plenty that needs to be done in our own back yards. People in my church, for example, have adopted an inner city school, making sure every student has clothes,...
by krista | Feb 21, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Today I want to talk about Short-Term Mission Trips. Many churches take short-term mission trips – to a variety of places for a variety of reasons, serving a variety of people. I have a friend who spent a whole summer in Uganda serving orphans. My dad recently...
by krista | Feb 17, 2013 | Stuff about Me, Uncategorized
Today at church, we started our Global Impact Conference. I am so excited about it, I want to continue that theme here in my blog. I am a big fan of missions – all kinds of missions in all kinds of places. I believe we are called to meet the spiritual and...