Diana Trautwein

From Sand Dams to Sorghum

Self-help groups and sustainable development make a difference in Kenya. [divider type=”dotted”]Traveling the Kenyan roads of West Pokot can be venturesome – not an exercise

Bearing the Wait

Lessons learned in the interlude “The waiting is the hardest part.” – Tom Petty Over the last decade, I have had many great experiences in

A Net For Catching Days

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Net for Catching Days [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Making space for God in the busyness of our routines [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] By Heather Monkmeyer October 2014 [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text] Two

When the best-laid plans…

Lessons in parenting, prayer, and patience Kristi Ivanoff lives in Anchorage, Alaska, where she is editor of the ECCAK Sinew and serves on the preaching

An Unlikely Journey to an Unexpected Place

How two young people – one from suburban Minnesota, the other from rural Colombia – left their comfort zones and together followed God’s call. Katie

Scooped Up In the Arms of God

How, as a hen gathers her chicks, a church becomes the body of Christ Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent

Let’s Talk About What God Is Doing

Despite grim pronouncements about the church’s future, the opportunities for Christian mission are greater than ever before. A conversation with Leith Anderson and Gary Walter.

When Villagers Become Plumbers

Bringing water to the mountains of Honduras Dave Husby is director of Covenant World Relief. [divider type=”dotted”]Each day in the village of San Bartolo, Honduras,

Some Brokenness Required

Church planting maxim #10: “You will be broken.” I had heard this maxim often in my work with the Department of Church Growth and Evangelism

Gauging Our Emotional Correctness

Josh Danielson is director of mobilization and contemporary worship at Arvada (Colorado) Covenant Church. [divider type=”dotted”]Now a reading from the book of James, chapter 3,