The Healing in Mission Network of New Wineskins has a new name!  We are now calling ourselves the Renewal and Healing Network. This demonstrates our sense that the work of our network is meant to be broader than healing as it relates to mission, to also encompass matters related to the renewal of individuals and communities.

What is Church renewal? It’s what happens when the love of the Holy Spirit comes alive so that Jesus becomes Lord over our whole lives; our relationships become centered on God’s love; and His mission is central to our mission. Divine healing is certainly a part of that, and we do not desire to lose that emphasis. Rather, we see it as one essential expression in the renewing work that God is doing today in His Church.

Thirty years ago today, on April 27, 1994, New Wineskins Missionary Network (formerly ECMC, Episcopal Church Missionary Community) held its first Global Mission Conference.…

As I hopelessly sat at the conference that night feeling like everything in my life was continuing to fall apart, I exasperatingly asked God, Why did You even bring me here?

Having arrived at the Tel Aviv airport eight hours before my flight, I was the only one at the gate, the last gate in the international terminal, of course!

In 2005, Humanitarian Aid Relief Trust (HART) received a desperate request by a young Ugandan from the Acholi Tribe for help as his community had suffered frequent attacks by the Lord’s Resistant Army (LRA).