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Guns and City Streets

For us at Harrisburg (PA) Brethren in Christ (HBIC), this is bigger than an academic discussion or political agenda. It is about stopping carnage. In the past five years, our congregation has lost eight sons, brothers, a nephew, and a young man just beginning to attend HBIC—all murdered in cold blood…

Profiles

Meet Mike and Lori Cassel

Mike and Lori Cassel first sensed the Lord calling them to missions work after Mike went on a short-term missions trip to Honduras in 1999. For the past 10 years, Mike and Lori served in Mexico, helping plant churches and ministering to the lost and hurting in their community…

Profiles

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

As a believer with a traditional view of marriage, what led you to LGBTQ ministry? About five years ago, one of our student leaders was hosting an event and two presidents of LGBTQ clubs happened upon it. This student was chatting with them and suddenly felt the need to ask forgiveness…

Culture & Perspectives

Imagining a Church Full of Grace and Truth

Is it really possible to be a Church modeled after Jesus, who came to us from the Father “full of grace and truth” (John 1:14)? Throughout 2015, BIC U.S. National Director Alan Robinson and I have been imagining this high calling for the Church as we’ve facilitated the Impact Seminar…

Impact

Moving Toward the Vision

In Acts 1:8, Jesus told his disciples that they were to be “witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth." For Christ’s disciples today, “Jerusalem” refers to our local area—our people group. “The ends of the earth” refers to all the nations of the world…

Impact

Rooted and Thriving

I grew up in the beautiful Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania, and now I live in urban Philadelphia. As the daughter of a park ranger, my childhood playground was a 2,000-acre landscape of lakes, streams, forest, and fields that inspired me to discover a relationship with the Creator…

Impact

Documenting the Undocumented

My mother put me in piano lessons when I was five years old. And though I learned sonatas and waltzes, Beethoven and Mozart, I was learning to play piano to serve the Lord. My mother has always been involved in every facet of church life…

Impact

Making Room for More

Last week I received a call from our foster care agency: There’s another child in need of care. He’s two years old, and his mom was arrested. It’s only for three days. Can we take him? I think about my hectic schedule…

Impact

Privilege to Poverty

For active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared to love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and with everyone looking on. Whereas active love is labor and perseverance, and for some people, perhaps, a whole science…

Impact

The Beauty in the Mess

I was born in Santa Barbara, California — gorgeous, clean, sunny Santa Barbara. Eight years ago, I bought a home in Kensington, a notoriously poor and drug-ridden section of Philadelphia. For the first few years I lived here, trash would rain into my backyard from neighboring rooftops (cereal boxes…

Culture & Perspectives

Thou Shalt Not Be Bored

Finding out what we’re enslaved to can be hard. Recently, I’ve been reflecting on how entertainment has held me in bondage. I doubt that I’m alone in this. I think many of us find ourselves just wanting to zone out, heat up some leftovers…