Across the Street and Around the World Blog

Part Two of a survey trip to a district in India with 3 million Muslims and Hindus, looking for a Proverbs 31 woman.

Wish your Hindu friends Happy Holi with these beautiful graphic images with Bible verses on them. This is one of Hindus (and most everyone from India) most fun “festival of colors”.

Why are we not transported to heaven instantly when we choose to become part of God’s Kingdom through Jesus Christ? Why are we still here to live out our days on this earth? I’ve discovered (at least) seven reasons, as I read through the Bible, and the seventh one is a big one with many parts.

Why did God put us on this earth in the first place? Why are we here? Read how God intended for us to change, expand, and even rule the earth since the beginning—and what that means when we say, “You can change the world!”

A story of how reading the Bible with my Muslim friend Aiysha in between sips of chai and bites of carrot cake changed the course of my life because she taught me something new. Do you know what “here I am” really means?

I’ve got two ideas for us to be more INTENTIONAL during Diwali on behalf of—and with—Hindus. The short version: 1. Pray and 2. Party.

Wish your Muslim friends Eid Mubarak! with these beautiful graphic images with Bible verses on them. This is one of Muslims most dear celebrations.

Watch a video of me explaining the meaning of Christmas to a Muslim and a Hindu friends in a one minute answer — or a ten minutes answer. You can do this too!

Get your Christmas gifts from Kingdom companies located in spiritually strategic countries. These Kingdom workers that I know personally are creating jobs and building relationships, living with people in places with least access to opportunity—and the Good News.

If the draw to move to a spiritually strategic country — a majority Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, or formerly Community country—keeps you up at night dreaming of a way to get there, I’ve got a beautiful, integrated, available visa option for you in almost any country you can imagine. Student visas.

In our well-meaning mission-minded, take-the-gospel-to-the-ends-of-the-earth fervor, do we recognize that it’s OKAY (and even IMPERATIVE) that we also fulfill our original role as stewards of God’s earth, animals, and its resources? Let’s look alllll the way back to Genesis to see why God made humans in the first place.

Find out your Grow to Go Score and if you’re a Starter, Grower, or Goer based on the FIFTY most common practices and attributes of a fruitful cross-cultural GOER. Take the Grow to Go Test now.

To those of us who do not live in the second wave of India’s pandemic chaos, locking down for the second time, two billion of the most unreached people on earth doing a twice-dance with death—we live with privilege. What is the privilege, and how do we navigate what’s happening in India RIGHT NOW?