You’re back from the mission trip and after all the shared stories and pictures and some intentional debrief, you soon slide back into the busyness of life.

The liminal experience of being outside of your comfort zone and growing tremendously during your trip is all but forgotten and the rich soil of community that was cultivated among the team members on the trip has quickly dried up due to the scorching demands of the day once you return.

As the days turn into months, you talk less and less to the team members that had become like family. When you do run into each other, an exchange of memories and smiles occurs, but deep down you long that God was still doing amazing things through each of you, “like God did on that trip.” Over time, you resign yourself to the lie that only on mission trips do amazing things happen and you, like many others, start living mission trip to mission trip. It doesn’t have to be like this. There’s more than just living mission trip to mission trip.

You’ve made up your mind. You’re going to take the long-awaited digital leap and dive headlong into the epitome of youth ministry tech-coolness...blogging.

Ever since we entered the information age, all manner of experts, social commentators, and cultural pundits have been bemoaning the reality and supposed consequences of “information overload.”