What Are You Waiting For
By Bill MacLeod It seems like we’re all waiting for something…good health to return…a marriage to mend…a job…a prodigal to return…a baby to arrive…a biopsy report…love for life…or just for the microwave to ding!
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Simply…Thank You “The world is moved along not by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but by the aggregate, tiny pushes of each honest worker.” Helen Keller I’ve always loved that quote by Helen Keller, and especially what precedes it: “ “I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty…
DetailsVisiting Ukraine… Living a Useful Life
By Jill Hartzell The widow smiled. Her eyes were intense from a life of great pain. Yet, tender and warm as she shared her life story with me. It was filled with concentration camps, great hardship, and overwhelming concern for the situation in Ukraine. Her small village of Pullin was far from the Russian border,…
DetailsJudge Makes International ConneXions!
By Judge Tom Kohl I am a circuit court judge in the State of Oregon. God has given me a powerful story through the brutal murder of my daughter of how He can take a tragedy and turn it into a triumph. It is a story of forgiveness and hope that is only possible in…
DetailsOur Missionary Heritage
By Gilbert Gleason, Pastor of Grace Bible Fellowship At Mission ConneXion Northwest 2006, the ministry of Bert and Colleen Elliot was highlighted in conjunction with the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the martyrdom of the five missionaries in Ecuador which included Bert’s younger brother, Jim Elliot.
DetailsVisiting Iraq…in an ISIS Summer
Sami Hassan became an MBB (Muslim Background Believer) when he and his family came as Kurdish refugees from Northern Iraq to America over 15 years ago, heard the gospel, and committed their lives to Jesus Christ. They moved from Houston to Portland and have been enthusiastic promoters of Mission ConneXion from its inception up…
DetailsFrom Mongolia, South Korea to Student ConneXion
By Ryan Fast,Teen Missions As someone whose primary mission is to disciple teenagers, I’ve made the following observations:
DetailsWilling to Serve? Seriously?
By Bill MacLeod, Executive Director Years ago while working on a city-wide effort in a foreign city I had a colleague who was invited to join our team because others observed how faithfully he had carried out the most menial tasks without complaining when his supervisor had asked him to do so. He once told…
DetailsA 2015 Venue and Opportunities to Sparkle!
Messages From Bill Without a PA system, evangelist will have no one to respond to his invitation for no one will hear! And without a 2015 Venue to accommodate 125 workshops, 80 exhibitors and 1500 in an auditorium…there can be no Mission ConneXion Northwest…
DetailsPlease Don’t Send Me to Africa…
By David Irby Here I was attending Mission ConneXion (MC), the Northwest’s Premier Missions event, for the second time. I smiled to myself and gave an inwards chuckle, as I was one of the last people you would ever expect to be here, not only as an attendee but as the head of a mission…
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