One of the counter-cultural messages of the Apprentice Series is: bigger isn’t always better.  I have found this to be a difficult message to hear—even in the church program environment. In the back of my mind there has always been a narrative that says, “to be successful a ministry experience should start big...

Houston, We Have a Problem

We flew out of Belize City on Sunday morning. It is about a 2 hour drive from Jaguar Creek (the camp where we stayed) to the airport in Belize City. All along the way I soaked in the sight of tiny dilpaidated homes with their residents...

Poison Trees and Remedies

As a person from the mid-west of North America, the rainforest of Belize can be a rather frightening and intimidating place. For example, while in Belize I learned that in the rainforest there is a poisonous tree that leaves a person...

Seeing Like a Little Child

This morning in the gospel of Luke, I was reading about people bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed. The disciples try to stop this process but Jesus...

Transformation through Tension

Belize is a small country in Central America. It is just south of Mexico and east of Guatemala. Most people who know of Belize, know it for the white sand beaches, the snorkeling and the adventure resorts.

Introducing PathLight...

My wife and I recently traveled to Belize, Central America...

Here I discuss the merits and limitations of Willow's study, but not without a critique of "The Man In The Mirror."