B4T STORY: HURRY-FREE B4T

B4T STORY: HURRY-FREE B4T

This is a guest post by a B4Ter in E Europe. When we moved to a new town in 1995 to start a factory, we met a little girl named Sara. We lived on her street, and she was 11 years old—the middle child of 9 children. Sara’s family was in poverty during the country’s...
THOUGHTS ON FAITHFULNESS

THOUGHTS ON FAITHFULNESS

Faithfulness is a sort of loyalty that exists only because of your faith. When you have faith that God will provide, you don’t waver in following Him while watching your bank balance decline. When you have faith that God will heal (whether in this life or the next),...
NO LASTS WITH GOD

NO LASTS WITH GOD

The following is a guest post, contributed by one of the OPEN Services team members in USA. One thing I’ve been thinking about a lot lately, especially since becoming a mother in 2021, is that there will be a “last” for everything. There will be a...
JETLAG FAITH

JETLAG FAITH

What Jesus calls us to do by faith sort of feels like experiencing jetlag. Jetlag occurs when you travel by plane to a time zone far away from your own and your experience of what time it is no longer matches what your mind and body expect it to be. Now Similarly,...
B4T STORY: HUMBLED BY HELP

B4T STORY: HUMBLED BY HELP

This is a guest post by a B4Ter’s wife in East Asia. It was a cold, dusty day as my husband sat in the change room of his factory with a handful of his workers. It had been about two years since the opening of our factory, and in that time, my husband had built...
ECCLESIASTES: MARANATHA

ECCLESIASTES: MARANATHA

This is part 16 of a many-part blog series on the book of Ecclesiastes. If Jesus has come to make ALL things new (Revelation 21:5), by extension that means ALL things, right? We often treat “ALL things” as only the human soul. When we launch people overseas just for...