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Fear Builds Walls, Love Builds Bridges – Embracing the Nations
Imagine a New Home for Them “The foreigner residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself.” Leviticus 19:34 There is something deeply unsettling about being the outsider. Over the years, Peter and I have lived in three different countries. We moved from Canada to Thailand (10.5 years) , spent…
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Compassion Fatigue – Sustaining the Soul While Serving Others
Ministry is more than a career. For pastors, it involves walking closely with people through the most intimate and vulnerable moments of their lives, grief, illness, conflict, doubt, and crisis. Pastoring is a privilege and deeply meaningful, it also carries a hidden cost: compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue is the emotional and spiritual exhaustion that…