Articles published in the monthly Together in Prayer newsletter.
The angel said, “Don’t be afraid. I’m here to announce a great and joyful event that is meant for everybody, worldwide: A Savior has just been born in David’s town, a Savior who is Messiah and Master. This is what … (read more)
Over the past few months, we have marked a series of important historical milestones… • the 80th anniversary of those heady days in which we created the South American Mission Prayer League; • the 150th anniversary of the famous “Ebenezer … (read more)
In Business School we are taught about “financial leverage.” A lever, of course, is a tool designed to produce output force greater than input force. In the area of finance, a very common “lever” is debt. Investors will use OPM … (read more)
The Prayer League Handbook uses an interesting term: “Intentional Dependence.” The Handbook portrays this as the core principle of something we call “The Prayer League Way.” Jan Tollefson, one of our seasoned missionaries with many years of experience within our … (read more)
Organizations like ours don’t simply descend from the sky. We are immersed in a story larger than ourselves. We are threads in a larger fabric. We have “taken root downward,” to borrow an image from Isaiah, that we might “bear … (read more)
While driving through the farmland of North Dakota, my father would sometimes comment on how the soil seemed less black than when he was farming. He attributed this unfortunate fact to erosion and the depletion of nutrients over years of … (read more)
We all stand somewhere. Everything must rest on something. This is true for people, projects, churches, nations – mission organizations, too. We stand upon foundations. Our milepost this month takes us to the very foundation of the World Mission Prayer … (read more)
I was thinking about cows the other day. You may wonder what brings a city slicker to think about cows, out in the suburbs in the middle of the afternoon. It wasn’t anything spiritual, at first. I was daydreaming about … (read more)
Over the past few months, we have described a series of historical “mileposts” marking our journey as a missionary community through the years. This month takes us to Bible camp along the shores of Lake Independence, just west of the … (read more)
Years ago, when I began preparing for the mission field, I overheard a member of a potential donor body say, “I don’t want to support an accountant.” “Real” missionaries, he must have thought, are evangelists, church planters, teachers, doctors, and … (read more)