Diana Trautwein

Voices: Repetition and the Heart

Lingawe Sarah Singa, a 19-year-old junior at Lycee Vanette, the girls’ high school at Karawa, had died […]

A Beautiful, Robust Gospel Message

In This Invitational Life, Steve Carter attempts to demystify and reframe our understanding of personal evangelism. Carter, who is a teaching pastor at Willow Creek Community Church in Barrington, Illinois, acknowledges two polar approaches that most evangelicals default to when seeking to share our faith with friends and family. […]

Voices: This Is My Home

In April of 1992 I was brought to the United States of America; I was six months old […]

Grand Rapids, Michigan: Praying with Purni

Purni was born and raised in Bhutan in a family of ethnic Nepali farmers called Lhotshampas or Southerners. She was married in her late teens. […]

Sacramento, California: Journey to Friendship

The first time we met Hassan he said to us, “In Sha’ Allah (God willing) some day we can go back to Syria.” It was November 10, 2016, and my husband, Alex, and I had entered the address into our GPS and followed the instructions to Hassan’s family’s home in Sacramento. […]

Strathmore, Alberta: Preparing Room

In the summer of 2015 I heard a CBC radio story about Canadians who formed small groups to sponsor Vietnamese refugees in the 1970s. […]

Sacramento, California: Safe Arrival

Two volunteers, one a college student, the other a small business owner, accompany me on one of the church’s twenty-five-passenger buses to make a late-night trek to Sacramento International Airport. […]

Mission Musings: How I Got Here

In my role as executive minister of Serve Globally, people often ask me how I got into missions. I answer this question differently depending on

Cruel Companion

When doctors couldn’t heal my searing headaches, I learned to accept my pain as an integral part of my identity—and then it left. […]