How can we turn our work place into our mission field? This week we had the wonderful privilege of sitting down with Lidia Toader who works in Digital Marketing and Advertising in Bucharest, Romania. She shared with us how she felt God challenge her to begin to see...
When I was 15, I wanted to be a professional golfer. I was pretty good for a freshman in high school, but the jump from “pretty good teenage golfer” to “make a living on the course golfer” proved to be a substantially larger chasm than I anticipated. I've had the joy...
Why is Business as Mission such an important part of missiology today? This week we sat down with Pastor David Wigington from Cornerstone Christian Fellowship in Bloomington, IN to discuss why Business as Mission is so important today. Not only is David a wonderful...
Here at The Stone Table, we celebrate the sacredness of every day work. All kinds of it! Whether you’re a brain surgeon or sweep floors, redeemed by the Gospel your work matters. This is a message so many of us never grew up hearing, so when we see this being declared...
How has business as mission (BAM) excited the business leaders in your church? This week we sat down with Pastor Nathan Peternel of Life Church in Fishers, Noblesville, and Indianapolis, Indiana to talk about how BAM is exciting the business leaders of his church. At...
Recently I passed a life milestone, a major milestone – retiring from my “day job.” This wasn’t like hitting age 40, 50 or 60; those are just numbers. Retiring is a significant life change, one which – as my wife likes to point out – does not affect just me. A...
I worked in the mail room at Word Records when I was in college. I was a student at Belmont University, ground level for a lot of starry-eyed artists looking to break into the Nashville music scene. This mail room gig gave me a chance to rub shoulders with some of the...
The day of my accident began normally, with the early morning sun poking holes through the makeshift shade my husband rigged up the night before. Daylight came early in Honduras so no alarm clock was needed to get us up and going. Our missions team had come to...
How can Christians in the marketplace engage the kingdom everyday? This week when talking with Pastor Rob Ketterling (River Valley Church) we asked him how he encourages those in his church who are working in the marketplace. Like always, he had some wonderful insight...
It’s August in Indiana and that means corn around every corner. Where the modern world has not yet stomped in to plop down a strip mall or housing addition, there grows corn taller than most men. The farmers rejoice because 2018 has been a bumper year for the farmer...
For those of you who may not know, I’m a huge Indianapolis Colts football fan. In fact, my family gets a little concerned about me during the games, during the autumn football season, because I can get pretty intense. Weather I’m physically at Lucas Oil Stadium, you know yelling and screaming, or if I’m in my own living room screaming, the dogs underneath the table in fear or making my neighbors wonder if they should call the police for a domestic disturbance.
You know every Monday morning at our housing company, CRF Affordable Housing, we have a conference call where all of our staff across the state of Indiana can call in and kind of give updates on things that are happening at each of the properties, share stories, and we’re able to share things with them as well. But, the way we have committed to start this call every Monday morning is that everyone shares a win; everyone shares something good that’s happened. Maybe at their property, within the context of their work, or even within their own family or something personal that’s happened.
You know one of the things we talk about here at The Stone Table is how our stories, the story of our life, the story of our careers, really the story of everything as a follower of Jesus, is really part of a much greater story. We talk about our work and the great story and I’ve had some folks ask me, you know, “What does it look like to engage my work and my career and my vocation through that great story? Is it ok if I like my work? Is it ok if I pursue a career that excites me? Is it okay if I make money and profit from my work? Or, does embedding my story in a greater story mean that I can’t enjoy any of those things?”