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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 10 views • unknown
Here's a message that will bring you chills. Have you ever felt the urge to pray for someone and then just put it on a list and said, "I'll pray for them later?" Or has anyone ever called you and said, "I need you to pray for me, I have this need?" A missionary on furlough told this true story while…
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Bobby Earls • Illustration • • 27 views
I will never forget Ted Stone
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
In Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen, Donald Miller writes, “A true mission isn’t a statement; it’s a way of living and being. A mission is more than token rituals that make momentary reference to the things your employees should care about. A mission is a story you…
Children's Talks
Jim Patterson • Kircubbin Community Church • Illustration • • 5 views
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When the SpaceX capsule returned safely to earth in September 2021, returning four amateurs after a three-day journey in space, the group made history as the first space tourists. The four crew members included a billionaire who paid for the trip and his three guests who hoped to show that ordinary people…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In March, 2019 two doctors from a hospital in Papua New Guinea spoke at a church in the United States telling the congregation about a critical need for teachers in their school for missionary children. Though neither had ever been on a mission trip, except for a brief trip to Mexico or Canada, Kathy…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
When the pandemic began in March 2020, Aaron Reichert, owner of Krank’s Cycle had some tough decisions to make. His business made money renting bicycles to tourists staying in local hotels. When the hotels were empty, Reichert decided to begin going door to door to repair bicycles. His crew also began…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Hubert Davis accepted the Head Coaching position as the North Carolina basketball coach just four days after Roy Williams retired. But he isn’t just returning to the school where he played from 1988-92 to win basketball games—he is on a mission. In 2014, he explained why he accepted the assistant coaching…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 13 views
In his book, Leading Major Change in your Ministry, Jeff Iorg writes, “Over time, mission drift occurs in almost every organization. Followers and leaders alike can lose focus of their ministry’s true purpose and allow their efforts to become more about meeting their needs than fulfilling the organization’s…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Rodney Smith Jr. set out on a personal mission several years ago. He owns half of lawn care business in Alabama and often helps people who are unable to mow their own lawn because of age, disability, or being a busy single mom. He wanted to travel America and mow the lawns of military veterans in all…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
During the height of pandemic, Zohaib Begg undertook a mission to gather personal protective equipment for frontline workers. Then, the self-proclaimed “Chief Kindness Officer” decided he needed to do more to help his community so he contacted area business asking for help putting together boxes containing…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
Officials at a British cathedral said a book that recently arrived in the mail may have been checked out from the facility’s library more than 300 years ago. Reverend Canon Keith Farrow, vice dean and canon missioner at Sheffield Cathedral said the book arrived in the mail along with a note explaining…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
12-year-old Zechariah Cartledge was inspired by first responders who were injured in the line of duty. He felt he needed to do something to help those who risked their lives for his. He and his family started an organization called Running 4 Heroes to raise money to those injured or killed in the line…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
Perhaps the most iconic scene in all the Star Wars movies is from the very first one at the end of the movie. Remember when Luke is traveling down the Death Star trench, with only one shot to take, he fires the torpedoes into the impossibly small hole in order to destroy the planet-destroying weapon.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
Marjorie Saint was a young widow. Despite the pain of the loss of her husband, she took her son, Steve Saint, and moved to the mission field in South American in order to reach the secluded Waodani tribe. According to cultural anthropologists, the Waodani tribe was the most violent group of people ever…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
When Paul Mitchell saw how hard parts of Texas were hit by a strong winter storm, he knew God wanted him to go and help people who did not have water to drink shower or even flush their toilets. The retired plumber and his family went to Austin area along with others, and soon realized that the plumbers…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A rare earthquake in North Carolina brought Scripture to life for frightened churchgoers. A lector at the outdoor Sunday mass at St. Gabriel’s Catholic Church had just reached a Bible passage in which the prophet Elijah intoned, “After the wind there was an earthquake—but the Lord was not in the earthquake,”…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When Lexi Longstreet of Junction City. Oregon heard that families with children fleeing wildfires had come to a high school in their area in search of necessities, she invited some friends to bring comfort and companionship to the children. Longstreet owns a party shop and took the role of Belle from…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
The Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter discovered an FM radio signal radiating from the moon Ganymede. This marked the first time such a signal, known as a decametric radio emission, has been detected from that moon. The mission of the Juno spacecraft is to study the origins of Jupiter and how the planet…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 7 views
Napoleon is a struggling teenager in the now classic namesake film, “Napoleon Dynamite.” In an interaction which has since become the source of many internet memes, when he finds out his new friend Pedro is asking a girl out on a date, Napoleon laments his own lack of the “skills” that a girlfriend might…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 3 views
NASA has announced that the launch of successor to the Hubble Space telescope has delayed again due to technical issues and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Officials said the James ebb Space Telescope is now scheduled to launch at the end of October 2021. The new telescope is designed to look…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
A mission in Mississippi helps people who have seen better days by teaching them to work on motorcycles owned by people who have also fallen on hard times. The Mission at the Cross houses 25 men at a time. Daily activities include mentoring and other programs to build character and develop new skills.…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
When computer modeling determines wind conditions are favorable, Pastor Eric Foley of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, travels with his team to the border to release helium-filled balloons carrying copies of the New Testament as well as digital and audio Bibles loaded onto SD memory card. The balloons disappear…