Perspective
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Sometimes we don’t have the information we need to fully appreciate the depth of what’s before us.
Is the glass half full or half empty?
Sometimes we don’t have the information we need to fully appreciate the depth of what’s before us.
At some point in my daily walk, I realized the only birds I heard were crows.
The person to whom the story belongs should always have a voice in the process.
In non-profit storytelling, there are several factors to consider as you tell a story. The organization is telling someone’s story, and that person is often in a vulnerable position. “I often wondered, if our clients read these stories would they be happy with the way we portrayed them?”
Permission to Screw Up: How I Learned to Lead by Doing (Almost) Everything Wrong Kristen Hadeed started her business, the cleaning service now called Student Maid, by accident. She stumbled through mistakes that should have cost her everything, but didn’t. …
Allison Mayer is a photojournalist, using images to tell true stories and to help us understand the world. She describes herself as witness, storyteller and artist. She reminds us not to get so caught up in the story we want to tell that we miss the story unfolding before us.
There is something beautiful about the way we are all knit together. Melissa Fay Greene’s “There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Rescue Africa’s Children” weaves a tapestry of love, hope, and decency in the midst of …
These books have shaped my thoughts and work. If you want to come to Africa and help the children, these are the books I recommend. Read them all. Read the Bible along with them. Soak it all with prayer. Be …
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The LORD was with Joseph and he prospered, and he lived in the house of his Egyptian master. When his master saw that the LORD was with him and that the LORD gave him success in everything he did, Joseph …
We are in the process of changing the software we use to control images on the big screens in our sanctuary. The new software comes to us highly recommended. Thousands of churches use it. The feature list had all the …