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What do you think of when you hear the word Missions?



For most of us it brings up visions of a person or group of people taking ten days off of work and heading to a region of the earth foreign to them. People from the United States heading to Africa or South America and lending a helping hand to a children's home or providing medical care that normally is not available.



But is that all there is to missions?



In Matthew 28 we get our commission to share the… Continue

Over the course of the next few weeks I hope to write some thoughts about the adventure I have been on since Friday, September 3, 2010. My hope is what I write will eventually become a book about my great, great grandfather and how his legacy can spark new hope in the lives of those who read about his life.

Installment 1

September 3, 2010 was going to be a Friday just like very other Friday until I realized one important factor. I poured coffee into my favorite coffee cup, one that I… Continue

A few years ago I received a copy of a book called, "The Secret" and I read it and as soon as I was done with it I dropped it into my trash can. Usually when I read a book and it does not appeal to me I put it in a garage sale or take it to the used book store but this one I placed it where it belongs.



You might be wondering why I am saying this and I hope to answer that for you in this post.



From the official website of The Secret:



One spring day towards the… Continue

A Home-Mission Enthusiast



The Rev. Seth Gold Clark, who died at his home in Appleton City, Mo., on Friday, April 22, 1898, was one of the most enthusiastic and indefatigable home mission pioneers in the central West. For over fifty years incessantly active in the work he loved, he was one of the best examples of a missionary type now fast disappearing.



He was born in Delaware county, N. Y., August 13, 1817, and, after a boyhood spent on farms in New York and Ohio,… Continue

Today my wife and I took a road trip. The reason for the trip was to check out part of the legacy of Seth Gold Clark.



We traveled the roads that my great, great grandfather, Seth Gold Clark, traveled when he visited the churches he was pastor of in Missouri. Our first stop was Hume, MO, then we traveled to Rockville, MO, then to Appleton City, MO which was his home town and we ended our trip at Butler, MO. Below are some photos I took today.



The Presbyterian Church in… Continue

I am ordained in the Association of Vineyard Churches and I am exploring beginning a new house church in Louisburg, KS.



First, let me share the problem in Louisburg and the Miami County area. Right now there are Baptist churches, a Lutheran church, Methodist churches, Assembly of God churches, Catholic and Presbyterian churches, a Cowboy Church and some non-denominational churches. Each serves the community in it's own way and does a good job of doing what it does.



For… Continue

Loser! Untalented! Dumb! Hot Head! Fearful.



These are words that describe some of the images people place on others. I believe each of those have been placed on me at some point in my life and the sad thing is I believed the people who placed them on me. I wore those images for most of my life and every now and then one of them pokes its ugly head out and tries to attach itself to me again.



Some of you see one of those images each time you look in the mirror or in given… Continue

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In my earlier writings I wrote about my mom leaving when I was about 3 years old, I wrote about the negative impact two teachers had on me and I wrote about being molested by a homosexual. Those were real events that left negative scars on my life. But I do not have to allow them to control my life and make me who I am.



With this post I want to begin to share the men and… Continue