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Meet Mike and Lori Cassel

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… Read On

Published March 24, 2016

Q&A: Kate Vosburg

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… Read On

Published November 11, 2015

Imagining a Church Full of Grace and Truth

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… Read On

Published November 9, 2015

Moving Toward the Vision

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… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

Rooted and Thriving

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… Read On

Published August 4, 2015

Documenting the Undocumented

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, and so she… Read On

Published February 25, 2015

Making Room for More

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, my other… Read On

Published February 25, 2015

Privilege to Poverty

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… Read On

Published February 25, 2015