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MissioCare Collective, Richmond, TX (2026)

10/12/2026

When the Answer Is “Wait,” “No,” or “Not Yet”

“The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.” Proverbs 16:9

How do you handle life when it throws you a curveball? Do you complain, or do you rejoice? Do you look for things to make you happy, or do you look for the joy God can provide in the circumstances?

Life has a way of taking an ordinary day and turning it upside down. Sometimes the answer to our prayers is “yes.” But sometimes it is “wait,” “no,” or “not yet.” Those answers can be difficult when we have already made our plans and believe we know how things should unfold.

The apostle Paul wanted to go to Rome. In Romans 1:10, he tells the believers there that he had been praying for an opportunity to visit them. God answered that prayer—but not in the way Paul probably expected.

In Acts 21–28, we see Paul’s journey to Rome unfold. He eventually arrived there, but his route included arrest, imprisonment, trials, and being placed under guard. Prison certainly wasn't the route Paul would have chosen, but it was the route God used.

What is remarkable is how Paul responded to his circumstances. Rather than constantly complaining about his situation, Paul continued to serve. He prayed for those around him and shared the gospel. Even the guards who were chained to him had opportunities to hear about Christ.

Paul gives us a wonderful example of how to respond when life goes sideways. He prayed, and God answered. The answer simply looked different than Paul expected.

When you are a child of God, you can have confidence that even when your plans don't work out the way you hoped, God is still at work. His plans are not disrupted by our unexpected circumstances. Sometimes He uses the very situation we would have avoided to accomplish something greater than we could see at the time.

The challenge is to keep our eyes open.

Instead of asking only, “Why is this happening to me?” Perhaps we can also ask, “Lord, what are You doing through this?”

The unexpected may become an opportunity to trust God more deeply, encourage someone who needs hope, or share the gospel with someone we would never have encountered otherwise.

We may not understand the new route, but we can trust the One who establishes our steps.

When the answer is “wait,” “no,” or “not yet,” remember: God has not lost control of the plan. He may simply be taking you somewhere you never expected to go.

10/05/2026

The Divine Plot

“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God …. Woe to you who are rich, for you have received your comfort.” Luke 6:20, 24

“You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked.” Revelation 3:17

It is so easy to feel like we are failing when life gets heavy, our resources run thin, or we feel isolated in our faith. We live in a world that constantly tells us that safety, comfort, and a flawless reputation are the ultimate signs of a blessed life. But when we look closely at the whole of Scripture, we find a beautiful, comforting truth: God’s heart has always beaten for the broken, and His definition of success is radically different from our own.

In Luke 6, Jesus stands on a level place, looks into the eyes of His tired, struggling disciples, and whispers a word of profound hope: “Blessed are you.” He wasn’t praising their pain; He was promising that their lack made room for His fullness. On the flip side, He issued a gentle but sobering warning to those who had everything figured out, reminding them that worldly self-sufficiency is a fragile foundation.

Decades later, the ascended Jesus spoke to seven churches in Revelation. He was no longer walking the dusty roads of Galilee, but His pastoral heart remained exactly the same.

Think of the believers in Smyrna. They were exhausted, materially poor, and facing intense pressure from their community. By every worldly metric, they were losing. Yet Jesus looks at them with deep tenderness and says, “I know your poverty, yet you are rich!” Their external lack forced them to lean entirely on Him, making them spiritually vibrant.

Then look at Laodicea. On the outside, this church had it all – wealth, safety, and a booming economy. They felt secure enough to say, “I have need of nothing.” But Jesus, in His deep love, refused to leave them in self-deception. He pulled back the curtain to show that their physical comfort had numbed the spiritual hunger.

This beautiful continuity across Scripture is an invitation to rest. It reminds us that God is not impressed by our performance, our bank accounts, or how put together we look on Sunday morning. He is looking for a heart that simply says, “Lord, I need you.” If you are feeling empty, overwhelmed, or rejected for doing the right thing today, take heart. You are not failing. You are precisely where the Kingdom of God meets you.

Action Step – The Holy Pause: Sometime today, step away from your screen, your to-do lists, and the noise of your schedule for just five minutes. Sit in the quiet, open your hands, and pray a simple prayer of dependency: “Lord, I have nothing to prove and nothing to hide. I simply need you today.” Let go of the pressure to be self-sufficient and allow His peace to fill your lack.

-The MissioCare Collective Team

10/01/2026

Two big trips are happening this October! The Schuessler family is heading to Thailand to help lead a retreat for missionary families from a partner church, while Gi Gi and Andi are partnering again with Azmera to serve at a retreat in Migdal, Israel.

Both of these upcoming trips are fully funded, but the work doesn't stop there! We constantly have opportunities like these to serve and walk alongside global workers across the globe.

Because of the generosity of our financial partners, we are able to provide these member care services at no cost to the global worker.

As we look toward future opportunities to serve, would you prayerfully consider partnering with us financially to make more of these trips possible?

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09/28/2026

The Mind of Christ: The Glory He Laid Aside

"Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped." - Philippians 2:5-6

Paul's words invite us into one of the deepest mysteries of the gospel: the eternal Son of God willingly laid aside the privileges of heaven to enter the brokenness of our world.

Before Bethlehem, before the manger, before the cross, Christ existed in eternal glory. He was not merely near God; He was God. He shared the worship of angels, the splendor of heaven, and the unbroken fellowship of the Father and the Spirit. The One who spoke galaxies into existence, who upholds all things by the word of His power, dwelt in perfect majesty and honor from all eternity.

Yet Philippians tells us that He did not cling to His rights and privileges. He did not insist on His position. He did not demand that His glory be recognized. Instead, He willingly emptied Himself, not by ceasing to be God, but by taking upon Himself everything that comes with being human.

Consider what Christ embraced:

The Creator entered His creation.

The King of heaven became dependent upon a young mother for His care.

The One who owned all things had nowhere to lay His head.

The One surrounded by the praise of angels was misunderstood, rejected, mocked, and betrayed by those He came to save.

The One who knew perfect fellowship entered a world fractured by sin.

The One who knew no sin bore the weight of sin.

The One who had never experienced death submitted Himself to death.

And perhaps most staggering of all, the beloved Son who had eternally enjoyed the Father's favor endured the agony of bearing divine judgment on behalf of sinners. On the cross He cried, "My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?" entering a depth of suffering we can scarcely comprehend.

Christ's humility was not simply that He became a servant. His humility is measured by the infinite distance He traveled. The descent was from heaven's throne to a criminal's cross. The wonder is not merely that He served, but who it was that served.

What makes Christ's humility even more profound is that every step of His earthly life was marked by surrender to the Father's will. Though fully God, He chose the path of obedience. He surrendered His rights, His comfort, His reputation, His safety, and ultimately His life.

Again and again Jesus demonstrated this posture:

"I seek not My own will but the will of Him who sent Me." (John 5:30)

In Gethsemane, facing the unimaginable horror of the cross, His prayer revealed the depth of His surrender:

"Not My will, but Yours, be done." (Luke 22:42)

The mind of Christ is, at its core, a surrendered mind. It is a heart that trusts the Father enough to yield completely to His purposes, even when the path leads through suffering.

This is where Philippians 2 becomes deeply personal. Paul is not merely asking us to admire Christ's humility; he is calling us to participate in it.

The reality is that none of us can manufacture the mind of Christ through willpower alone. Our natural tendency is to protect ourselves, defend our rights, seek recognition, and maintain control. The mind of Christ is not something we achieve, it is something the Holy Spirit forms within us as we surrender to Him.

Just as Christ surrendered Himself to the Father's will, we are called to surrender ourselves to the Holy Spirit's work. Every day the Spirit invites us to lay down our agendas, our pride, our need to be right, our desire to control outcomes, and even our cherished plans.

The surrendered life is not passive resignation; it is active trust.

It is waking each day and saying:

"Holy Spirit, my life belongs to You."

"My plans belong to You."

"My reputation belongs to You."

"My ministry belongs to You."

"My future belongs to You."

The more we surrender, the more room there is for the Spirit to shape us into the likeness of Christ. The Spirit produces in us what we could never produce on our own, a humility that serves, a love that sacrifices, a patience that endures, and an obedience that trusts God regardless of the cost.

The irony of the Christian life is that surrender is not loss, it is freedom. When we release our grip on ourselves, we discover the joy of being carried by God. When we relinquish control, we experience the peace of His leadership. When we die to self, the life of Christ becomes increasingly visible in us.

The same Christ who surrendered everything for our redemption now lives within us through His Spirit. The mind that led Him from heaven to the cross is the very mind the Spirit is forming in every believer today.

Prayer

Lord Jesus, I am overwhelmed by the glory You left behind and the humility You embraced for my sake. You surrendered every privilege and willingly obeyed the Father, even unto death on a cross. Forgive me for the ways I cling to control, comfort, and self-interest.

Holy Spirit, I cannot develop the mind of Christ on my own. I surrender myself to Your work within me. Shape my thoughts, desires, attitudes, and actions to reflect Jesus. Teach me to lay down my rights, trust God's purposes, and walk in joyful obedience. May my life become a living testimony of the One who gave up everything so that I might gain everything in Him.

Amen.

Praying with you,
The MissioCare Collective Team

09/21/2026

Learning to Fail, Well

If there’s one thing we all know, it’s failure. No matter where we live or what language we speak, failure is a common denominator: we all fail. The question is, what do we do when we do?

Adam and Eve responded with denial. King David sulked. Peter retreated to something familiar: fishing. These are common responses to failure, but none of them teaches us how to fail well.

But in Peter’s case, we find hope because Jesus entered into the story and things changed. Specifically, Peter changed. How Jesus handled Peter’s failure can be summarized in five statements.

Statement 1: I’m here. Even though Peter had denied knowing Jesus, Jesus didn’t shun him or say, “I told you so.” Instead, Jesus fixed him breakfast and ate with him (John 21), even though Peter had denied Him three times, just as Jesus had predicted.

Statement 2: I know your story. The breakfast between Jesus and Peter is filled with reminders from Peter’s own story. They are on the same seashore where Peter first met Jesus. It was through a miraculous catch of fish that Jesus grabbed Peter’s attention, just as He had done years before. Jesus prepared breakfast over a charcoal fire, reminding Peter of the fire where he denied Christ. He then gave Peter bread, echoing the Last Supper. Through these familiar moments, Jesus tells Peter without words, “I see you. I know you. I am here.”

Statement 3: It was bad. Jesus didn’t sugarcoat it for Peter. He asked Peter three times if he loved Him. After the third time, Peter was broken, "grieved" (John 21:17). What Peter had done was hurtful. It was bad. Jesus needed Peter to know his actions mattered, but He also wanted Peter to know that His love for Peter was greater than Peter’s failures.

Statement 4: You’re not done. Jesus asked Peter, not the old Peter, but the broken Peter, to lead: “Feed my sheep.” But that’s not all. He then proceeded to tell Peter that when his time to face death came, he would not fail like he did in the past. Jesus believed in broken Peter.

Statement 5: Push Restart. Jesus ended His conversation with a familiar invitation when He told Peter, “Follow me” (John 21:19). The first time Peter heard these words marked the beginning of his adventure with Jesus (Mark 1:17). At that time, Peter was full of questions and confused about who Jesus was. He still had questions, but there was no longer any doubt about the identity of Jesus. He was the One who forgave him, who sought him out even though he had failed, and the Savior who now called him to serve. Jesus pushed restart.

As a result, the book of Acts testifies that a broken and forgiven Peter was a great leader. His failures did not define nor deter him. He was an empowered child of the King. And so are you. In your failings, breathe deep, my brother. Listen well, my sister. Jesus is with you and leading you forward.

09/14/2026

Whose Voice Are You Listening To?

“For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.”
2 Timothy 4:3-4

In today’s world, voices can be heard from almost anywhere. You can be in one country and hear a voice from halfway around the world in an instant. Through podcasts, social media, YouTube channels, and countless other platforms, voices are constantly telling us what to think, how to feel, what to believe, and how to live.

The impact of these voices can be felt around the world. We even have a common word for those who have gained the ability to influence others through these platforms: influencers.

These “influencers” offer all sorts of information. From the simple - how to bake bread, to the complex - medical conditions and scientific discoveries. We have an incredible amount of information available at our fingertips.

But there is One Voice that supersedes them all: the voice of Truth.

Scripture warns us that there will be voices that turn people away from sound doctrine and toward those who simply “tickle the ears.” Sadly, this is not a new struggle.

Acts 17:21 tells us, “All the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.”

Does that sound familiar?

Today we even have a word for one way we consume an endless stream of information: doomscrolling. Merriam-Webster defines it as spending excessive time scrolling through online content, especially news, that makes us feel sad, anxious, angry, or distressed.

We can scroll and scroll, moving from one voice to another, one opinion to another, one crisis to another, until the voices around us become louder than the Voice within us.

So, whose voice are you listening to?

Our prayer for you at MissioCare Collective is that the voice of the Lord would be the voice you listen to most; that His Word would be where you turn for wisdom, truth, direction, and discernment.

The Apostle Paul prayed for the believers in Philippi:

“And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment, so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ.”
Philippians 1:9–10

Discernment does not come simply from consuming more information. Discernment grows as we know God and become grounded in His Word.

As you listen to a Christian influencer or any influencer, podcast, teacher, author, or speaker, here are some questions to ask:

Does this person point me to Christ, or ultimately point me toward themselves?

Is Scripture the foundation of what they are teaching, or is Scripture simply being used to support their opinion?

How much time am I spending listening to this voice compared to spending time listening to God through His Word?

Does what they teach agree with the whole counsel of Scripture, or does it focus on isolated verses to make a point?

What is this voice producing in me? Am I growing in faith, wisdom, love, humility, and obedience, or am I becoming anxious, angry, fearful, prideful, or discontent?

Am I becoming more tethered to Christ, or more tethered to the influencer?

There will always be voices competing for our attention.

The question is not whether we will listen to voices. We will.

The question is: Which voice will have the greatest influence over us?

May we be people who know the difference between the many voices around us and the One Voice of Truth.

May we be so Tethered to the Word that when every other voice grows loud, we recognize the voice of our Shepherd.

“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
John 10:27

-The MissioCare Collective Team

09/09/2026

Serving cross-culturally brings incredible joy, but it also carries a heavy, often unseen weight.

Did you know around 80% of missionaries experience severe burnout? In fact, average stress levels during a worker's first year on the field are more than double what experts consider a major life crisis. Behind every ministry update letter are real people navigating isolation, culture shock, and emotional fatigue.

Missionary care isn't an extra perk: it's essential if we want workers to stay healthy and stay long-term. "Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ." (Galatians 6:2). Do you think that only applies to those directly around you, or to those we've sent to the tough places?

09/07/2026

Digging Our Own Wells

Last week, we looked at how Jesus meets people at ordinary wells. But what happens when the well you’ve been drinking from gets filled with dirt? In Genesis 26, Isaac moves into the Valley of Gerar right after a famine. The first thing he hits is a very practical problem: the Philistines had filled in all the wells his father Abraham had dug, shoveling them completely full of dirt.

Isaac could have spent his energy complaining about the Philistines or wasting time wishing his dad’s old wells were still working. Instead, he just grabbed a shovel. Genesis 26:18 says he “dug again the wells of water that had been dug in the days of Abraham his father.” He had to clear out the dirt himself to get to water.

I think it’s a little disconcerting how fast we can become professional Christians on the field. We can write three newsletter updates, lead a Bible study, and draft quarterly reports, all while our actual prayer life has been dead for months.

When you first land in a new country, you usually survive on spiritual leftovers. You live off the momentum of your sending church back home, memories from your college ministry days, or the pure adrenaline of your original calling. That old water keeps you alive for a season.

But eventually, real life dumps a load of dirt right into those old wells.

It’s not usually one big crisis. It’s the slow grind: waiting four hours at immigration, another team argument over a budget line item, language stress, humidity, and raw exhaustion. Things just are not going how you expected them to go. Dang expectations. You drop your bucket down into the things that used to inspire you, and you just hear it hit dry ground.

You cannot sustain a long-term call on someone else’s spirituality, even if it was yours, or a ten-year-old mountain-top experience.

Notice Isaac didn’t just dig once and call it a day. The locals fought him over the first well, so he named it Esek (Contention) and kept moving. They fought him over the second, so he named it Sitnah (Enmity) and kept digging. Finally, he hit a third well, named it Rehoboth (Open Spaces), and said, “Now the Lord has made room for us.”

Digging wells is not glamorous. It is sweaty, repetitive work. Some days, especially days on the cross-cultural field, trying to sit with God feels like throwing a spoon against a pile of hardened mud. It feels a hundred times easier to just fake it, run on fumes, and keep up appearances for your supporters back home.

But Jesus isn't asking you to live off your old well, your parents’ well, or your sending church's stream. He wants to meet you right here in the mess of where you actually live today.

Intimacy with Him isn't going to look like it did before you left home. It might just look like five quiet minutes over instant coffee before the city wakes up, a raw prayer spoken in broken local language, or sitting in your living room with nothing left to say, letting His grace carry the silence.

Stop trying to pull water out of dry holes from a past season. Pick up the shovel. Do the small, unglamorous work of looking for Jesus in your real, current week. Beneath all the dirt, the living water hasn't gone anywhere. As Jesus promised in John 7, the Spirit in you isn't a stagnant reservoir you have to drag around—He is a spring waiting to break through the surface again. Pick up the shovel.

08/31/2026

The Miracle of a Conversation

Jesus often performed miracles that drew crowds - the blind received sight, the lame walked, storms were calmed, and the dead were raised. Yet one of the most profound miracles in Scripture happened beside an ordinary well through an ordinary conversation.

In the Gospel of John chapter 4, Jesus meets a Samaritan woman in the heat of the day at Jacob’s well in Samaria. She came carrying an empty water jar, but also an empty and weary soul. Rejected by society and burdened by shame, she likely expected another silent trip to the well. Instead, she encountered the Savior of the world.

What makes this moment so remarkable is that Jesus did not begin with a visible miracle. He did not heal a disease, cast out a demon, or perform a public sign. He simply spoke to her.

“Give Me a drink.”

Those simple words opened the door to one of the most transformative conversations in Scripture.

Jesus gently led her from physical thirst to spiritual thirst. He exposed the places where she had searched for fulfillment and lovingly revealed that only He could satisfy the deep ache within her soul. Through patient questions and compassionate truth, Jesus uncovered her hidden pain without shaming her. He saw her fully and loved her completely.

The miracle at the well was not external; it was internal.

A heart awakened.
A life transformed.
A soul redeemed.

By the end of the conversation, the woman who once avoided people ran back into town, boldly proclaiming:

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.” (John 4:29)

The woman who arrived in shame became a witness to her community. Her encounter with Christ became the very testimony God used to bring others to faith. She did not have a platform, position, or polished theology. She simply told her story. And through her testimony, many Samaritans came to believe in Jesus.

This is the beauty of Gospel transformation: a life truly touched by Jesus cannot remain silent.

The Samaritan woman reminds us that our personal encounter with Christ is never meant to stop with us. God often uses redeemed people to reach other thirsty souls. Our stories become living evidence of His grace, mercy, healing, and redemption. When we openly share how Christ met us in our brokenness, carried us through suffering, forgave our sin, or transformed our hearts, others are invited to encounter Him too.

Sometimes we underestimate the power of our testimony because it feels ordinary to us. Yet God delights in using ordinary people and honest stories to reveal His extraordinary love.

Jesus still meets people at “wells” today, in ordinary moments, weary seasons, and places of brokenness. Often, His greatest work begins not with spectacle, but with sacred conversation.

He still heals unseen wounds:

shame,

loneliness,

disappointment,

striving,

and spiritual thirst.

The conversation at the well reminds us that salvation itself is a miracle. A transformed heart is no less miraculous than a healed body. And just as the Samaritan woman ran to tell others about the One who changed her life, we too are called to tell the story of our encounter with Jesus so others may come and see Him for themselves.

Perhaps today Jesus is inviting you to sit with Him honestly and allow Him to speak into the places you keep hidden from others. He is not intimidated by your past, your questions, or your failures. He already knows and He still offers living water.

And perhaps someone else is waiting to hear your story. What if the very places of shame, brokenness, and longing that you try to hide are actually the places God desires to use most powerfully for His glory? Are your conversations revealing a life that has truly encountered Christ, or have you grown comfortable speaking about Him without inviting others into the transforming reality of what He has personally done within you?

Tell of your conversation!

Till all are cared for ….

-The MissioCare Collective Team

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