People are taking a risk when they are brave enough to venture into an unknown room at church or in a home for a group meeting with people they don't know. As we start a new year of group ministry,...

Small Group Summer Break provides our group leaders with a much-deserved break and helps groups return strong when the new year begins in August. Our break begins July 1, and groups resume the week of...

How's Your Lead? ...

The Christmas holiday offers a wonderful time to celebrate the birth of our Lord, but the celebration can be awkward with extended or even immediate family members who don't recognize Jesus as Lord....

Students, could you give one of your summers to making Jesus Christ known around the world?

Every leader has go-to resources when preparing to teach or when tackling tough questions, but there are always a few hidden gems you might not have discovered yet. With that in mind, we're sharing...

Have you ever thought about going on a mission trip but the cost of the trip turned you away? Maybe you heard about a wonderful opportunity to make Jesus known amongst a people that God had placed on...

Great Small Group Leaders invest time and energy into their own personal, spiritual growth. ...

Seeing people grow in Christ as they serve Him is really exciting, but sometimes leaders feel that they need to do it all...

Work Your Way to "Listed" ...

Each year the Global Offering helps sustain Brook Hills missionaries and support various projects and initiatives around the world. This past October, a Brook Hills short-term team had the...

In the "All In For All Nations" magazine, we were able to hear from Laurelyn regarding her short-term trip last summer. Laurelyn recently graduated from college, so she was able to benefit from the...

What would you do if all those around you were actively suppressing the gospel? What if the only thing you ever heard about the gospel was an anti-gospel designed to discourage you from ever...

"All in: reverberated through our life as a church this year. I love the phrase. Not only is it a call to jump into membership, but it's also a call to jump all the way in with both feet into the...

The Mandate for Missions (Matthew 28:19-20, Psalm 67:1-2) ...

The definition of home varies for many people. For some home is a place, for some it is people, for all believers home is our heavenly calling with Christ Jesus. Yet, something truly does happen in...

Launch Your Year Well ...

When you leave our parking lot, a sign on the backsides of the stone pillars reads: "You are entering the Great Commission." As a faith family, we conclude nearly every gathering with the final...

"Live simply so others may simply live"

Six months into our new life in Cambodia, my husband and I found out we were pregnant with our first child! We were thrilled and excited, but that joy in my heart was later coupled with fear and...

One of the challenges in sending people to serve overseas is distinguishing between those who are ready to be sent and those who are not ready to be sent by the church. Prayer, wisdom, and dependence...

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a difficult conversation - ...

"Readers are leaders and leaders are readers" - that was a statement that was drilled into us back in our college days by our campus ministry. I'm not sure who coined it, but it has proven to be...

How can the church best equip believers to live out the Christian life? To answer that question, consider a couple of Bible passages that have long intrigued me.