Principles of Conflict Mediation
How can you help friends, co-workers or family resolve their conflicts and disagreements? The stress and pain involved can become so strong that people cannot bring resolution on their own. They may have tried to go to the person directly themselves, (as Matthew 18:15 exhorts us in cases of one person sinning or doing wrong […]
Loving the Stranger – A Stranger Love
How can you love someone that you don’t even know? In many ways I find the idea of “loving the stranger” a rather bizarre concept. In other words, love precedes knowledge. Of course, love at first sight does happen, however normally knowledge and understanding precedes. The stranger must first be known, and cease being a stranger, […]
Reaching your neighbors and strangers on your doorstep in Europe
As soon as the conversation turns about the refugees, the tension increases. We Christians are not spared from such tensions. In the following article, I would like to give first a brief analysis and categorization of current developments (mostly out of Germany, the country I work currently). In a second part, I will then try […]
How to Make a Success of 2024
Back when I was a teenager in high school, I had a teacher who used to say, “If you aim at nothing you will probably get nothing.” He happened to be a believer and so he applied this philosophy to his spiritual growth, as well as to other areas of his life and work. That simple statement […]
Three Steps to Becoming Leaders of Integrity
Leadership has many pitfalls. One of the most common is disillusion and cynicism fed by a lack of integrity in leaders. As humans, we are attracted to follow leaders who exude confidence and charisma, are great communicators with clear vision, and appear to have resources, connections, and power. If I feel seen and known by […]
Leadership with Humor
I was getting on an airplane with Loren and Floyd McClung. Loren went through the door way first. He stepped inside and said to the hostess, “Hi, I’m medium.” Then he let Floyd (6’6) in and said to the hostess, “and this is large.” And then he let me in and said, “and this is […]
Lessons from Loren’s Life on Finishing Well
“Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us. We do this by keeping our […]
Memories of working as Loren’s Scheduling Assistant
‘Roy, could you come over to my place please?’ It was a Friday evening, and Loren was just back from a tour; I assumed that he had new trips to plan. I had been working in Lausanne as his scheduling assistant for a couple of years by this time. Each time I’d drive him to Geneva Airport […]
Are YWAM Workers Bible Translators?
In one word – yes! YWAM workers are Bible translators. YWAM workers are also facilitators for translation projects, and we are training facilitators in our Oral Bible Translation (OBT) schools. What does this mean? Perhaps it’s easier to share some of the history of YWAM’s involvement with Bible translation over the years to help explain not only where we are now, but how […]
Engage! (New) Ways to End Bible Poverty in Ourselves and Others
If we want to end Bible poverty, we will have to begin with ourselves. But how? Here is good news. The Word of God is like laundry detergent. If you give it time, it will work. This is the main thing: give it time. Trust the process. Whatever else we do, let’s make sure there is room […]