Text by Tiffany Smith, North American Mission Board “By becoming good neighbors, we become who we’re supposed to be. As a result, our communities become the places that God intended them to be.”  – Jay Pathak, The Art of Neighboring The art of neighboring is a skill that has been lost in our culture. Americans…

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Text by Neil Cole, founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates & CMAResources. It used to be so easy to determine who was successful and who was not. Bigger was assumed to be better. I suggest that those days are quickly evaporating, and that standard never was an accurate metric of true success in the Kingdom…

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In the next few months, thousands of people will come to the New Hope Center in search of food and clothing. Loyal gardeners will battle the summer sun in our Urban Farm. And volunteer teams from local churches will continue with the most important, least publicized, most impactful work of all: follow-up. Our services are…

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In 2007, I went on my first of several trips to Costa Rica.  We were going on mission to connect with a church with which we had previously.  The project – to build a bathroom facility adjacent to their church building.  Apparently the government was cracking down on churches that didn’t have these types of…

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One of the first stories I ever captured for 6 Stones involved Foundation Baptist Church. In the dead heat of Texas summer, only a few weeks into my career here, I joined the resilient little church body in an empty field behind their new (old) building. At the time, the congregation was small. Fledgeling, even.…

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