Author: Thaine Norris

We are sons of prayer. By this, I do not mean we pray a lot. Rather, I mean we were prayed for, very often. Our local church was more instrumental in shaping us...

Our oldest children, Daniel and Rosemary, attend a church that was planted in Fort Collins, Colorado by a few families from the Antioch Church movement, which i...

When I was 21 years old I had one of those “once in a lifetime” adventures wherein I was part of a group of people that delivered a donated school b...

Greyhound buses in the 1980’s were a humble–no miserable–form of cross country travel. It took around 36 hours to make the 1,200 mile trip fro...

We have a wonderful brother and friend named Codaniel, whom we met at a local coffee shop, at McDonald’s, at a friend’s BBQ, at a church potluck, an...

It was a foggy Wednesday, last November. I had been struggling with feelings of depression for several days (which, as it happens, is not uncommon for me). But ...

What a blessing it has been to work in support of the Chinese underground church and their missionary vision which they call “Back to Jerusalem,” in...

My favorite story of God’s provision is seen from the other side, when we got to participate in God’s blessing on someone else. During our time in J...

Don’t Be Anxious The drive from Longmont, Colorado to Fabens, Texas usually takes about 11 hours. But for us, it was more than 20! The day after our great...