It’s hard to believe it’s 2016! Seems just like last week I was telling you how excited I was for our Fellows year to start.
Hope for the Inner City: A Fellow Reflects on a Mission Trip
Every year the Charlotte Fellows take a mission trip to Chattanooga to work with an organization called Hope for Chattanooga, an inner-city, cross-cultural ministry. In the weeks leading up to our trip, we read through different quotes, Scripture verses, and thinkers on the topic of cross-cultural missions and the significance of racial diversity.
As we engaged with the material, my mind kept returning to a thought put forth by Richard Stearns, the president of World Vision. In his book The Hole In Our Gospel, he shares how his friend went through the entire Bible, cutting out pages that had any reference to social or racial justice. By the time he was finished cutting, there was barely any Bible remaining.
More Than a Fun Run: A Fellow Reflects on Her Internship
In the fall of 2014 I moved to Charlotte, NC to join the Charlotte Fellows program. Before that I had been living in Los Angeles and pursuing a career in sketch and improv comedy. While this may sound exciting and glamorous, I assure you it was not. The two years I spent in L.A. were extremely dark. When I finally moved away I was looking for something to fix me, to give me purpose, and to make me feel like I was a part of something really amazing. I could NEVER have predicted what the year had in store for me.
3 Practical Ways to Integrate Your Faith & Work
Studies have shown that the average person will spend over a third of his/her waking life at work. Since most Christians are not engaged in full-time vocational ministry, how do we integrate our faith into one of the biggest portions of our lives–our work?
Jesus Loves the Little Children: Lessons from Serving at Brookstone Schools
I grew up singing “Jesus Loves the Little Children”, and those words will always be deeply ingrained in my mind and heart. It wasn’t until recently that I realized the lyrics of that song are rooted in much deeper, profound truths. In Mark 10:14, Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.” Recently my church in Charlotte focused on this passage, and I was humbled as I examined my own faith in relation to my personal relationship with Jesus.