by Jess Luoma For over forty years, Dr. David Thompson was a missionary surgeon in the remote coastal forests of Gabon, Africa, and in Egypt. Death, disease and extreme poverty have been no stranger to him and in the same breath, neither have miraculous healings and abundant provision as he has witnessed medicine collide with the supernatural. Thompson grew up in the jungles of Cambodia with his missionary parents learning a lifestyle of radical love, church planting and serv

by Jess Luoma Our friends, Hope Street Choir is based in Redding, CA and brings the homeless into a community that reconnects them to their hope and purpose through music. Debi Bailey-Brown and Joe Lee started the choir after years of putting on Live, Love, Laugh, Laundry, a free laundry day for the homeless in our city, and Hope Recovery, a recovery group for those battling addiction. After spending time with people at Laundry Day and doing karaoke while clothes were being w

by Les Reading Zita Stanchekova was my friend from many years ago. She lived in the U.S. under political asylum from Czechoslovakia, then a communist country. She once said to me, “The most important thing my father did was to teach me how to make a decision.” She went on to say, “You Americans cannot make a decision about anything until you’ve seen it on television three times.” Her words struck a chord with me because I saw the truth in what she was saying. On the whole,