What are these barriers these families face, and how can the church accommodate?
All tagged hospitality
All of You is Welcome Here
To love is to invite each other to bring our full selves and all of our experiences to the relationship.
Consider the Birds
The kingdom of God isn’t just something small that grows large. It’s a tree where birds come to build their nests.
Do This in Remembrance of Me
Sharing communion each week calls us back to the path we chose when we committed our lives to Jesus.
Communication Lab with Professor Jesus
Try these two communication experiments and see how Jesus is revealed through you.
Mormons, Refugees, and Addicts
We believe every person has come to the assembly of God’s people for a reason. Yet I am always surprised at who God brings our way.
From “Who Is My Neighbor?” to “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
What does an ordained minister with a bunch of puppets and low-production quality have to offer to a hurting world?
The Nations Are Coming Here
As churches become more missional, our churches will attract more ethnicities, and we will start to see the nations around us that God has brought to our doorstep.
Are You Still a Christian?
We like to create distance, even distance that is generated by falsity, to protect ourselves from being impacted by those we fear.
Tension at the Threshold: Hospitality and Immigration (Part 3)
Every conversation about hospitality must include boundaries, and every conversation about boundaries must include hospitality.
Church on the Pond
If you’ve never stopped long enough to eavesdrop on nature, you’re missing out. That pond was a sanctuary, and the birds and the bullfrogs were the choir.
Tension at the Threshold: Hospitality and Immigration (Part 2)
Fair concerns remain about risk and logistics when it comes to relearning the virtue of Christian hospitality toward immigrants and refugees.
Healthy Small Church Looks Inward and Outward for Purpose
This small congregation’s outward reaching focus remains a central pillar of why they exist
Tension at the Threshold: Hospitality and Immigration (Part 1)
Some in our pews have political, theological, and experiential bricks stacked so high around the borders of their souls that they are unable to hear the cries of the immigrant.
Are the Doors of Your Church Open?
We need to be very honest with ourselves. There are so many people who consider coming through the doors of our churches but choose to keep on walking.
Rage against the Machine
There is a machine that exists today that threatens all of humanity. It is a machine that we created, but now it spins wildly out of control and for the most part, we remain unaware or apathetic.
Missional Hospitality: A Beautiful Emptying
Contrary to how it’s regarded in some circles, missional hospitality is not an outreach strategy.
Listen, Read, Act on Contemporary Issues Like Immigration
I started listening to immigrants, my views changed to a more collective understanding of what’s happening to us—humans all made in the image of God.
Hospitality Ministry: As Old as Pentecost
There are many reasons for church attendance most are there because the language the world is speaking is not making sense to them.
Baptizing an Iranian
During a time when controversy swirled on immigration, travel bans, and border control, I was able to stand before the church and declare, “Joseph, we are glad that you are here.”