faithrunner

Legacy Church hosted our 5th annual World Cultural Fair this past Sunday. Lue Kraltchev , our English Language Program Director, brought a new look and a graduation program to the event. I love this event because we see how God has allowed us to truly impact the lives of people around the world simply by opening our doors to our neighborhood and meeting a need . When I was growing up I got the idea missionaries gave up everything and moved to some remote corner of the globe never to be seen again except every four years when they came home with their native dress, artifacts, and slide show of their work.  At Legacy Church, we challenge people on mission with us to be missionaries in his or her own mission field .  That means if we are planted as a church in a mission field of internationals, we will be God's missionaries to them. This means that wherever you live there is a people-need that can be met in the name of Jesus. This need is your bridge of influen...

Work as Worship This past Sunday at Legacy Church , I told the story of a running partner who told me how she had sent an email to her office inviting the women in it to a small group she led at her church. Her plan backfired when one of her peers scolded her for using company resources for religious use. She admitted that was a mistake, but invited her to the group anyway. She went on to tell me how the girl had come to the group, grown in her curiosity about God, and that she attended regularly now. As we continued to run she told me more stories about how she leveraged her consulting and traveling as a platform for sharing her faith . (She no longer used company email for invitations to her faith activities.) I complemented her for seeing all of her life as a mission field and her network of relationships as her responsibility in serving others in the name of Jesus. She smiled and said, "I guess I'm a missionary with a corporate sponsor." I agreed, and that...