Tag: Faith

• Calling, Commitment, and Cambodia

  

  LOOKING AT THE FIELDS Working alongside her father in the Kansas wheatfields was a daily chore for my wife, Carmen, during her childhood. When she was 13, riding in the family work truck and gazing at the crops, it seemed like another summer’s day as her mind shifted toward the upcoming months and the necessary…

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  September 7, 2022

  2022, Neighbors, September 2022

  Asia, Asian Food, Assemblies of God, At-risk Children, Attention on the next generation of missionaries, Bangkok, Becoming a missionary, Calling, Cambodia, Cambodia Bible Institute, Carmen Lovelace, College, Crops, Discouragement as a missionary, Divine Plan, Encounter, Evangel University, Faith, Geography Class, Harvest, Intercultural Studies program, Jesus, Josh Lovelace, Kansas, Leaning on the Lord through grief, Lord, Lord provides, Miscarriage, Missionaries, Next steps after graduation, Philippines, Phnom Penh, Plans, Reading about the lost, Send someone else, Serve according to the calling, Short-term trip, Siem Reap, Southwest Missouri, Springfield, Stories, Students, Taking the Gospel to unreached people groups, Thailand, Unreached People Groups, What does faith in Christ look like, What to talk about on first date, Wheatfields

• My Life, Used

  

  Years of putting my faith into money, men, alcohol, drugs, the occult. My life was a disaster. But I can testify that’s when God can show up, and shine His light. words + photographs JODEE DORROUGH After many years, everything I learned, desired, strived for, everything I had sown in the darkness, the life I…

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  August 4, 2022

  2022, August 2022, Storytellers

  2018, Believer, Christ, command, disaster, drug, drug addiction help, drug dependency, Encourage, Faith, Faithful, feeding, freedom, Freeway Ministries, God, God's word, Gospel, Isaiah 6:8, jail, jeopardy, Jesus, lifestyle, light, Lord, Mark 8:36, Missouri, My Life, opportunity, path, Save Our City Revival, Scripture, seek the Lord, signs, soul, Springfield, symptoms, The word, truth, urgency, Victory Mission + Ministry

• The Author of My Story

  

  And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you,O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you, (Psalm 9:10). Cancer. Chemo. Covid. Words I’ve come to hate. Words that are all tough on their own, but collectively are extremely difficult to navigate. Because chemotherapy caused me to be immune compromised, I…

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  July 6, 2022

  2022, July 2022, Storytellers

  Becky Black, Cancer, Chemotherapy, COVID-19, Faith, Fear, God's Will, Goldendoodle, John Black, Kate Black, Luke 22:42, Missouri, Morgan Black, Online Church, Philippians 1:21, Psalm 9:10, Springfield, Stage IV Colon Cancer, Wes Black