Written by Jon SampsonFoster care can be a scary idea for people and families who are considering becoming foster parents. But it’s even scarier for the kids who make up the foster care system. 450,00...  Read More

Written by Kailynn NelsonI was reading my church history textbook from college a few weeks ago and I came across a description of church gatherings during the first two centuries written by Justin Mar...  Read More

Written by Ryan MillerChristianity doesn’t really cost me anything.Can you relate?Paul was persecuted.  Killed.  So were all the apostles except John, who miraculously survived being boiled alive.Jesu...  Read More

Written by Jon SampsonAs I’ve been thinking about how to share the message of foster care, I started to think about classic passages and stories from the Bible. It’s pretty easy to see that many popul...  Read More

Written by Jon SampsonThis song has been stuck in my head for the past month, and we’ve sung it a few times on Sunday mornings. Somewhere around the 25th time I listened to the song on Spotify, I had ...  Read More

Summer of 2016 I went to my second Leadership Project, an almost 8 week event put on by Campus Outreach with the purpose of growing closer to the Lord through work, evangelism, discipleship, and commu...  Read More

Written by Kailynn NelsonLast Sunday we talked about John 5 where Jesus healed a man at a pool in Jerusalem. This healing led to a discussion with the Jews about Jesus being the Son of God. Jesus told...  Read More

Written by Kailynn NelsonEveryone watched in awe as she knelt at Jesus’ feet. This woman, this sinful woman, began to cry. Her tears hit Jesus’ feet and she wiped those tears away with her hair. She k...  Read More

History has always been a neutral subject for me. I’ve never hated it, but I’ve never been overjoyed by it either. Names and especially dates tend to get jumbled together in my head. If I’m honest, I ...  Read More

Written by Kailynn NelsonI’ve written a lot lately about being honest with God about ours sins and weaknesses. This has been a theme for my life for the past few years. God has been calling me daily t...  Read More

Written by Kailynn Nelson"Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth?” (Job 38:4)This is the first in a series of rhetorical questions that God poses to the suffering Job. Job has had ever...  Read More

Written by Kailynn NelsonWe often refer to the church as a hospital for broken people. We build this idea from Jesus telling the Pharisees that “those who are well have no need of a physician, but tho...  Read More