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Slow Is Good

It’s easy to become frustrated with the slow process of growth, both in others and in ourselves. Here we look at the opposite perspective, that the slowness can actually be a good thing.

Meeting Darkness

For nearly all Thai men’s entertainment workers, their job isn’t a career choice, but one from necessity and/or hurt. We started meeting and getting to know our first Thai bargirls on a visit in 2003, then more in 2004, and are still working to help them today. Getting started took some adjustment, to say the least.

How We Got Started

Jim grew up on a farm in Illinois; Judy was the child of missionaries in Argentina. We met at Wheaton College and were both challenged away from middle-class comfort and safety. We got together as a couple while reaching out to the chronically mentally ill and others in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Here we discuss our introduction as young adults past the usual hurdles of fear and discomfort, into the joy of caring for folks at the so-called bottom.

The Choice

A nineteenth-century poem, attributed to George MacDonald, depicts the dilemma of the call to follow Jesus to hard places, or remain safe and comfortable.

Loving People at the Bottom

Bpop and Dao have a ministry to those at the bottom, the ones Jesus says his sheep normally care for. Jim sat down to interview them about their heart for the people of Thailand.

Practicing “The Most Excellent Way”

We all want to love well, but what happens when love gets complicated? Judy explores how to love even when faced with difficult choices. Drawing inspiration from the Bible, she shares what she has learned about loving others in God’s way.