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  Oregon: When God plans a sleepover

  Student Missions Blog: It was a beautiful sunny morning. I was walking through the Fountain Park apartment complex with another student missionary, Becca. We were praying for all the people living there.

  08/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Bedilu Yirga: Different languages, same declaration

  It was the day of Pentecost. God-fearing Jews and others converted to Judaism from afar came to stay in Jerusalem for the holiday. The disciples were together in one place for prayers, waiting for the fulfilment of the promise of the coming of the Holy Spirit on them.

  08/03/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Canada: Good questions from campers

  Student Missions Blog: We recently finished our first week with residential campers here at Frontier Lodge. Thanks be to God, because we had no hiccups or accidents.

  07/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Down Home: Woman? Nope. Of distinction? Doubt it.

  Look out, prominent and distinguished women. Here I come. According to an email that sailed through the ether and landed in my in box, this could be a very good year.

  07/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  2nd Opinion: Is your church fragile or agile?

  A church’s future-visioning process should focus on speed and nimbleness over rigid and inflexible models; on the “why” of a congregation and its broad direction, and then upon the specific “hows and whats.”

  07/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Right or Wrong? Civil discourse on race

  How do we engage in a civil discourse on race without being perceived as a race baiter?

  07/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Editorial: Pope Francis’ popularity & our faithfulness to Jesus

  Pope Francis has plummeted in opinion polls. But the Roman Catholic pontiff’s plunging popularity tells us far more about Americans’ values than it does about his vision.

  07/31/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Oregon: God put this place on my heart

  Student Missions Blog: It’s been almost two whole months here in Portland, Ore. Time seams to be flying by. But you can be certain God continues to do what he promises.

  07/30/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Mission Arlington: Ninja Turtles, robots and dignity

  Student Missons Blog: I looked up in the busy, chaotic room of waiting people. Some had been there nearly an hour, many with hyper children, waiting for someone like me to grab their clipboard and call their name.

  07/29/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Letters: ‘I’m with Franklin’

  “Thousands are being murdered by Islamic terrorists. I’m with Franklin.”

  07/28/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Oregon: Happiness not tied to a place

  Student Missions Blog: I’m going to be honest. I think the biggest lesson God has taught me this summer in Portland so far is not what I was expecting to learn at all.

  07/28/2015 - By John Rutledge

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  Rhode Island: A girl who never heard of God or the Bible

  Student Missions Blog: Growing up in the South, it seemed as if everyone had heard of God and Christianity. That was just the way life was. That all changed on July 13.

  07/27/2015 - By John Rutledge