David Joannes
169SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The beggars have really been bothering me lately. They always put me in a public spectacle, testing my generosity and Christian concern. They make me think long and hard…
read more64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List In the alternate universes that I wish I believed in, life might be so different for my other me’s. The television show Fringe makes me thoughtful. I think about…
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165SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Yesterday I saw a photo of my wife just after she had undergone surgery. She was leaning on my shoulder as I helped her walk back from the bathroom…
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290SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List “Have we really started fundraising, or have we just sent a few emails?” That’s the question I’m considering right now, for myself and for our team at Within Reach…
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199SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List I am in the middle of a handful of DIY projects, woodworking for our new, small condo in Manila. I’m building bookshelves, stand-alone shelving, tables, cabinets and a bed.…
read more128SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List God never desired sacrifices. He never desired burnt offerings and holidays and feasts. All he ever wanted was a broken and contrite heart. All he ever wanted was obedience.…
read more224SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Okay I admit it, I am confused. Maybe a little more than that. I am stupefied and astounded at the strange conversations of American churches and Christians. I read…
read more173SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from Letters To Lorna From Liberia by David Joannes Hour:93 “Go get yourself some coffee, babe,” Ray Joe tells me this morning at breakfast. That’s not the first time…
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193SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Excerpt from The Memories I Made Up by David Joannes The Beggar I have to describe my memories with words, inadequate as I know they are. I’m sure you know…
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225SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List As the early morning sunlight splinters through closed roller blinds, at the groggy cusp of awakening—eyelids blinking and squinting away the bright—I often awake, wondering where I am. A…
read more64SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List We need your help to raise $5,000 by March 31, 2012 for Within Reach Global’s growing ministry to unreached college students in China! Within Reach Global is in a…
read more150SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List It has always been our heart to reach out to the poor and forgotten, and five year old Wa girl Li Yan is a perfect example. In June, we…
read more171SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List The Ako Ay Pilipino Movement is inspiring thousands of people to realize their identity and fulfill their God-given destiny to make the Philippines a missionary-sending nation in Southeast Asia.…
read more150SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Within Reach Global has been growing and expanding into unreached people groups and villages, and we are so amazed how God is using this ministry to help transform peoples’…
read more150SHARESShareTweetJoin Our List Sometimes the phrase unreached people groups can be very abstract. Afterall, it’s the 21st century. How could there really be people who have never heard of Jesus before? As you’re driving…
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