I had heard a story a number of times since attending a Christian & Missionary Alliance church; the missionary who couldn’t raise any money to buy a property, but when one child sent in a buck, the seller sold it for that one dollar.  The details changed a bit each time I heard it (one time it was China, another Hong Kong; one time it was a building, another it was a property; the circumstances around the final sale changed a bit, etc.), which is a hallmark of an urban legend, and so I was a little skeptical.

But sometimes the story is true; it’s just that gets the old "Telephone Game" treatment.  But at our Missions Conference this week, they played a video of the missionary to whom this happened.  So straight from the horse’s mouth, here’s the story of a child’s ice cream money that opened up an avenue of ministry to reach over 1 million young people with the gospel message.

Good morning.

1. An ode to snow.
2. Interesting hermeneutic. Heh.
3. An economics test case.
4. A book on St. Paul.
5. For the kids, a much abused theme.
6. Lent and the American south.
7. St. John Cassian in East and West.
8. A complicated Jew.
9. Fast boot.
10. On the Lenten fast … and not “getting it.”
11. Entitlements.
12. Solar power.
13. Facebook.