In Togo, a small West African country, lives a 10-year-old girl named Mawuena. She has dark skin, short hair and large, inquisitive eyes. She wears a floral T-shirt and a yellow skirt that skims just below her knees. She lives under the same roof as her four siblings, but her life is nothing like theirs. […]

When urban Milwaukee’s Epikos Church was suggested as one of Converge’s churches succeeding in evangelism, Pastor Mark Deering’s response was initially skeptical, even a bit self-deprecating. “I thought, ‘Oh man, they’ve got the wrong church.’” Epikos isn’t heavy on replicable evangelistic programs. But as Deering more thoughtfully considered his congregation, “Our church is actually great […]

Yuri first came to my ESL tutoring class 20 years ago, when she was starting fifth grade. Four years later, her father was transferred to Toronto, and Yuri moved there with her family. Eventually, she found me on Facebook, and we began messaging. She wanted to talk about her future. In one message, she wrote:“I […]