The road seemed to be extremely dusty for that time of year. I was traveling through the Rufiji River Basin near the East Coast of Tanzania. It was the rainy season and naturally one would expect the roads to be muddy and the landscape to be green and lush. The...
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...
I just returned from 8 days in China with a group of pastors and businessmen. (I’m still recovering from the 12-hour time change and gluttonous platters of Kung Pow Shrimp, so please take that into account as you read this). We spent a week exploring some powerful new...
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...
A Message From China: How we're leveraging business to reach the unreached and how you can help. This week's video comes from a slightly different location than normal. Erik shares with us how The Stone Table is leveraging business to reach the unreached and how you...
This is an interview with one of our Business as Mission (BAM) practitioners using business as a mechanism for planting the church in areas of the world where you can’t do that with traditional missionary methods. In order to protect the work being done we will not be...
How do you keep Gospel centered missions at the forefront of your church? This week we talked with Adam Detamore who is the Lead Pastor at Realife Church in Greenfield, IN. We asked him why it's so important for him to keep Gospel centered missions at the forefront of...
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...
We talk a lot about business as mission (BAM) and how powerful we believe it is in taking the Gospel to the hard to reach places around the world, but we often aren't allowed to share the amazing stories that are happening. This week we got the chance to sit down with...
The easy to reach places in the world have access to the Gospel, so today we have to go to the tough and hard to reach places. We have to go into all the world to share the good news to all people. This is what we are passionate about. This week we sat down with...
"Your kingdom come, your will be done" is a very powerful, even dangerous, prayer that can change everything. When we begin to pray this simple prayer God begins to not just change our circumstances, he changes the things that we want. The Gospel is not an outward in,...