“We live in a world where bad stories are told, stories that teach us life doesn’t mean anything and that humanity has no great purpose.”  We wake up, we shower, we leave the house. We spend our days at work or school doing the same things over and over again, with slight variation. We dream of the life we wanted and lament that the dream hasn’t come true.  We itch with the understanding that we were made for something more — something deeper, something grander — the story we were meant to live.  What story are you meant to...

Raychel Manko and the rest of the World Race September 2012 I Squad spent last month in Swaziland. Leaving home for 11 months to travel the world means missing holidays back home. Christmas in Swaziland doesn’t look much like Christmas in America, but Raychel and her teammates found out that sometimes the best gifts are found where they least expect them. What’s the best Christmas present you’ve ever received? I’m sure we could all answer that question in a lot of different ways, but I can almost guarantee that none of us would ever answer that question...

Stories are the threads that weave through our days. They connect seemingly random flashes of life. They’re the way we derive meaning from moments. They’re how we share our lives – our stories bumping and colliding with the stories of others. And when we share them, stories are the most powerful tool we have to create change.  Stories are active, stirring something true inside all of us, allowing our hearts to be connected deeply to people we have never met.  Stories pull at our hearts in ways nothing else can.  Stories are the tools that change the...

This week, the 100,000th Adventures in Missions blog post was written! Here at Adventures, we highly value stories. Because we want people to write good stories with their lives, we have programs such as the World Race. The World Race began in 2006 when a group of twenty-somethings circled the globe simply asking the Lord for direction. As we enter 2013, we look forward to launching almost 700 Racers onto the field. All of these Racers have told their stories publicly — for the world to read. Why do we tell stories? Our goal is to create a culture of storytelling here at...