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Write Email Updates that People Actually Read

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Technology is a tremendous gift, if we steward it well.Email is a powerful tool, but it’s only effective if you wield it well. Here are some tips for sending email updates that don’t get trashed immediately.

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My Five Worst Fundraising Fails

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Fear, inexperience, and laziness have contributed to some classic blunders. And I don’t think I’m alone. See if you can relate to the worst mistakes I’ve made.

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Ruined For the Ordinary

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My life was ruined in DTS. Ruined to the point that sometimes I have a hard time remembering what it was like to live the way I used to. How freeing it has been to be ruined for the ordinary.

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The 4 Greatest Tools For Every Missionary

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What does it take to be a missionary? This is one of the many questions we run into when thinking or talking about missions work and what it takes. Here are a couple of the key tools every missionary needs when it comes to preparing for an outreach! 1. Relationship With God The most important…

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Do Mission Trips Actually Make a Difference?

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Some people believe that they don’t do any good, that there really isn’t any lasting fruit from them. You go, and then a week or two weeks later, you leave the people you’ve encountered and their lives are essentially still the same. But that’s not we think.

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The Power of Relationship

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One night, our team was going out on ministry to connect with and share at a local youth group in Germany, which was about thirty minutes from the town where we were staying.  Up to this point in our trip, I had connected with people in the youth groups and the ministry times we had,…

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I Died in East Asia

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There are no “maybes” with God. He’s an all or nothing. There would be no negotiation. He wanted everything from me. He wanted my hopes, my dreams, my family, my friends. My life.

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