Missional Monday is something I started mainly to help those who are part of our Frederick family to find additional ways to engage and serve the world. As we talked last week about loving all life, I decided I wanted to ways to help our church connect with people personally. I am specifically trying to help leverage technology to help
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Today I want to start a new series. I don't know how long I'll feature this, but for the time being I thought it might be helpful. Due to the advent of technology, we can now serve others around the world in tremendous new ways. Although mission trips and living missionaly in your own context are still incredibly important, through
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It almost seems impossible to me that next month will mark our 6th anniversary of returning from West Africa suddenly due to health reasons. Our one year in Burkina Faso was by far the most impactful, lifechanging year of our lives. I love anything and everything I can get my hands on that is about West Africa or from West
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posted by Micah Fries filed under Africa,
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Most of you are aware that Tracy and I lived in West Africa for a year. During my time there I became deathly ill from Malaria. In fact, at one point the doctor told me I was "about 3 hours away from death". It was one of the most frightening experiences of my life.
Beyond what Malaria meant to me personally,
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For those who haven't read the comment thread from my last post, Tracy's grandfather passed away early Wednesday morning. Please continue to pray for our family. It's hard for me to really explain how important he was to us. It's also hard to explain how important he was to me personally. Sorting through this loss has been, and will continue
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posted by Micah Fries filed under Africa,
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Tracy is leading a prayer group this Saturday for our local Baptist Association and she is tasked with leading the prayer for West Africa. She is very excited about the opportunity. I was helping her do a little research tonight and was on the West Africa region website, which is incredibly full of amazing information. While researching, however, I ran
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I continue to do research for my current sermon series, The Bible & The Bush, and as I do I come across amazing content that I really love to share. The video below is actually a combination of interviews and pictures some of my sister's former co-workers from when she worked with the IMB and their "One Story" partnership. She
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The following article is based on a sermon by missionary Del Tarr who served fourteen years in West Africa with a mission agency. His story points out the price some people pay to sow the seed of the gospel in hard soil. This story caused me to stop and consider my own commitment to commuicating the gospel. I hope it
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