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  • Pitter Patter, Plop Drop

    Pitter Patter, Plop Drop Hear the voice of the water Catch it now, ‘fore it will stop And leave us a desert again It rained hard last night at my house in North Texas. A region that normally sees 36.14 inches of rain each year has seen about 17 inches this one. By this time

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  • Back at Home

    Thanks to everyone who prayed for myself and the Haiti mission team from Crossroads. We got back last night, landing at DFW on the seventh flight of our 8-day trip to the tip of the Haitian peninsula, where our sister church in Chambellan lives out the gospel in the midst of difficult circumstances. I was

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  • I just wanted to drop everyone a quick note to let you know that tomorrow morning I and the CBC team will be flying off to Miami and, the next day, to Haiti. I’m not sure how much blogging I’ll do on Growing Young during the trip but I’ll definitely be posting on our church

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  • Today I wrote out my sermon for this weekend’s church service in Chambellan, Haiti. Preparing remarks to be read (by yours truly) in another culture, in another language, is a real test of verbal skill. I think I threw out about 60 percent if my English vocabulary because I wasn’t sure if my words would

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