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Leading or taking short-term mission trip?
Check out this guide to leading or successfully going on a short-term mission trip. One of the items comes from Angie Fann’s and my book, How to get ready for short-term missions. The article discusses four keys to your trip. Short-term missions leader guide
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Source of Life
From Bobby Garner . . . here is the new web site of the Source Cafe and Resource Center. The Source Cafe The Taylor family plans to be there May 25-June 14 to reunite and see good things “flowing out” of the Source of Life Resource Center. It’s named “source” because it’s within a mile…
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Are you ready for your mission trip this summer?
You’re thinking about a mission trip in 2010 . . . and you have questions, perhaps for you, a friend or relative, students or a whole group . . . Can I drink the water? But I don’t speak the language! You want me to sleep where? They eat what? How am I going to…
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Soldier devoted to family, Pawnee Nation, and our nation
SPC Tike Danson Alford Chapman, father of sons 4 and 6, died April 23 and the obituary is in the Tulsa World today. This is a notable obituary for several emphases and worth a read. Note his devotion to serving his country, his Pawnee Nation, family, and attention to extended family and ancestry. The Tulsa World’s…
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Taylors to Uganda
Click to download PDF about trip to Uganda My family lived in Jinja, Uganda seven years and worked with a church planting team and local Ugandans to establish village and town churches. Jill, Ashley, Anna, Jacob, and I plan to return for a short-term mission trip this summer. We are very excited about going back to our…
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Barefoot
I thought a lot about my friend Daniel Mwaza today. Daniel is 6’4″ and has size 14 feet and for the 16 years I’ve known him, he’s walked around and worked barefooted. He’s about my age and chooses not to wear shoes. Today, I chose to go barefooted to remember him, to remember the children…
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Spiritual Gifts: Mercy
These here are two of my good friends Rich and Lee Smith. No relation, these two Smiths. They are only related by Christ and their boots. Rich liked Lee’s boots, some vintage boots from the 60s that look like they were shined right out of the factory yesterday, only they are beautifully broken in and…
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Spiritual Gifts: Teaching
I believe my wife Jill has a Spiritual Gift of Teaching. She has used that gift throughout her life to build up the body of Christ, teaching and mentoring young and old alike. Jill teaches children at Garnett and also teaches college age and high school age math courses at two Tulsa area schools. The…
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My son Jacob baptized
My son Jacob Taylor was baptized Sunday, March 28, 2010. I told Jacob, “God said he is pleased with his Son Jesus–I am also pleased with you, very proud of you.” Jacob has such a great heart. I told him I already consider him a Christian, that this baptism is a marker on his journey.…