If you’ve listened to pop radio recently, I hope you’ve heard the hit song “Pompeii” by Bastille. The band, never suspecting the song would become such a hit, revealed that the song is a quiet, conversational reflection on the destructive eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, which wreaked on an unsuspecting society as they went about their daily lives. Probably […]
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Research[1] credits “word of mouth” as being capable of generating double the sales of paid advertising. Virgin Mobile—a cellular service catering to the youth market—employs this “create the buzz” strategy, claiming, “This generation, more so than previous ones, gets lots and lots of their brand preferences through peers… We need our customers to be our […]
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When I first heard that the XXII Olympic Winter Games were going to be held in the city of Sochi, Russia, I was excited! We have made dear friends working alongside locals there distributing the Book of Hope since 1991. The more I thought about it, though, I found myself cringing in anticipation of how the […]
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Often in the non-profit ministry world, we are challenged on how we approach life transformation. Skeptics question whether God’s Word can really be enough to affect people’s destinies. Critics scoff and say we need to do more than proclaim God’s Word to impact young people. There are hundreds of organizations that believe social justice and […]
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NIV) Historically the Gospel started in the East and moved westward, creating incredible growth in Europe and the Americas. But in the past 100 years, it’s like we are watching a tennis […]
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We sent a team to the Catalyst conference in Atlanta, GA last week to help spread the word about the ministry of OneHope. We printed signage and handed out t-shirts with the question “Is God’s Word Enough?” boldly printed on them. This being our first conference, we had no idea how the audience would react […]
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