Category: ATB

It’s Christmas time, which means if you are fortunate enough to have a missions assignment that has semester breaks (like ours did) you get to go home for the holidays, see friends and family, and catch up on life back in the old stomping grounds. Continue reading “About Seeing People Who Used To Support You.”

I just read some great perspective on giving over at Maurilio Amorim’s blog and I thought I’d pass it along. I normally don’t post more than once per day, but I thought this was a refreshing little article. Go check it out!

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This post is being written from the in-laws house, so it is chock-full of insight into what is easily one of the most difficult games of a support-raisers life: visiting home for the holidays.

The thing that’s unique to us on the support-raising trail is that we met with nearly everybody at our church, on an individual basis, and many of them still support us financially long after we mentally detach name from face. Continue reading “About Remembering People’s Names for the Holidays.”

I’m going to give the blog some room to breathe for a few days in celebration of the incarnation. (Mark Driscoll points out that “incarnation” and “chili con carne” share the same root. As if I weren’t already a big enough fan of God becoming human.)

In the meantime, while you are waiting for the finest support-raising humor content in the world to resume, take a look at some of my favorite posts: (I’ll give you a few more posts tomorrow)

• The two-part tips for how to effectively crash a Christmas party.
  (click here for part 2)
• The very first post on this blog (still among my favorites)
• The post about using the wrong excuse not to give.

Have a great day, and swing back by for some more classics from the vault tomorrow!

Regularly scheduled hilarity resumes tomorrow. In the meantime, why not go read and comment on some posts from the past few weeks! Or pick a favorite from the list to the left. See you tomorrow!