By Bill MacLeod The familiar children’s song, “Jesus Loves Me” contains the refrain: “Red and yellow, black and white, they are precious in His sight, Jesus loves the little children of the world!” Leroy Barber, our plenary speaker at Mission ConneXion Northwest 2016 (MCNW 2016) uses this song to pose the question, “Who’s more precious…
Who is My Neighbor? By Bill MacLeod Who is my neighbor? Our neighbor is no longer the person who lives next door. “Proximity” today has become somewhat of a relative term. Due to the Internet we are all a lot closer than we think.
By Bill MacLeod The theme of our January conference this year is “Without Borders.” I’d like to introduce you to two of our plenary speakers who emulate that theme in the way they have chosen to live their lives.
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By Bill MacLeod Last night, I taught my first “Perspectives on the World Christian Movement” class of the year. As I drove to the class, I thought of the first time that I took the 15-week Perspectives course, twenty years ago. At that time, I was a newly-appointed missions pastor. I had studied and earned…
By Bill Macleod. Dear Friend, Summer in the beautiful Pacific Northwest is a time of joy and wonder for many. But, for Mission ConneXion, it is a difficult time. Our financial responsibilities continue throughout the summer but our support decreases as people go on vacation and focus on their summer activities. That’s why I’m writing…
By Bill MacLeod Last month I was privileged to participate in Luis Palau’s NY CityFest, a major effort to proclaim the gospel at a scale that has not occurred in the Big Apple for more than 25 years.
By Bill MacLeod Over the years, we have seen the Lord bring new volunteers into leadership roles in what we call the Mission Connexion “Steering Team”*, even as He has called others away who had been with us for a time, into other fields of service.
By Bill MacLeod Once a month for the past thirteen years, the people who help to organize our January Mission ConneXion Northwest event have met together the third Thursday morning of each month at City Bible Church in Portland.
By Bill MacLeod As we move forward with plans for our 2016 Mission ConneXion Northwest event, January 15-16, 2016, we are constantly reminded of just how much God is at work already in the planning process.
