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For all of us who attempt to minister (to our next-door neighbor, overseas, or somewhere in between) increased self-awareness and soul-searching as to 1) what drives/motivates our ministry endeavors 2) how we actually view the recipients of our ministry 3) the experiencial impact of our endeavors o...

I mean no disrespect but while we are playing quarterback from our easy chairs Haitians are going hungry. The situation is dire because of the political unrest. While our bellies are stuffed with Christmas food our brothers and sisters are in great need. Meanwhile we pontificate about what how miss...

Josh and RZ, I am not sure how your ideas would've changed the outcome if Faith/Shining Light would've been in charge of sending or not sending JM or Charity/Grandpa Herr. They knew and allowed them to be sent. In plain Anabaptist settings, I doubt anybody is more than 3 phone calls away from leade...

Wow my formatting when nuts for a bit, and with every attempt to fix it, I made it worse!

Am I mistaken, but wasn't grandpa Herr sent to Charity's own mission program in Haiti at one point? As for thinking JM’S own church should be held even more accountable than even CAM: I absolutely think they should be. I have been really surprised there hasn't been more chatter about this over the ...

Amen and amen, RZehr. If you want missions bigger than what your church can do… then set up cooperative work with other churches in your conference. If your church is independent, then your missions should be too. The idea of just donating enough to CAM to reduce your taxes at the end of the year n...

Josh and RZ, I am not sure how your ideas would've changed the outcome if Faith/Shining Light would've been in charge of sending or not sending JM or Charity/Grandpa Herr. They knew and allowed them to be sent. In plain Anabaptist settings, I doubt anybody is more than 3 phone calls away from leade...

Policies and procedures are favourite tools of the sociopath, who learn them well and use them to evade accountability. Likewise, “training” will not prevent a problem like this. As I’ve said over and over, this was a basic church discipline problem of ignoring what the Bible teaches about false te...

Accountability and self awareness mean that we see these human tendencies in ourselves and deliberately “repent,” to put it into biblical terms. That means we see failure as an opportunity to change. I hope this case, and this book, can serve as a catalyst for that kind of repentance. I hope we can...

Clearly I haven’t figured out the quoting protocols yet.