You’ve Got to Be Kidding!
The Cru mission trip to Poland had gone well. Our Faculty Commons group had joined...
The Best Investment of My Time
In 2019, sitting in the audience among thousands at a Chinese Mission convention, I felt...
Help Me See Them Like You See Them
Let me start by admitting that I was once that lost student, pursuing all the...
Using My Platform as a Professor Internationally
For several years, God has burdened my heart to use my platform as a professor...
Would I Invite Them In?
I had been wanting to step out of my comfort zone and serve a population...
Perhaps Theology
The mottled light filtered through a large canopy of trees as we stepped off the...
My Mission Field
I joined the Animal Science Department at the University of Missouri on June 1, 1980,...
The Shared Life
In 2018, a dear colleague and I accompanied a group of nine students on a...
Filter of Hope
When Bilbo Baggins asked if Gandalf guaranteed his safe return from the adventure Gandalf was...
Why Travel Overseas?
In the fall of 2022, I had the good fortune of traveling to Poland and...