When I was a youth group leader, I always loved to watch how quickly community developed during student mission trips. A byproduct of that community (and one of the things I most appreciate about youth ministry) is seeing the transformation that takes place in the
On August 30, the REACH class of 2025-26 arrived at the Rosedale International Center (RIC). This year’s class is the thirty-fifth in the program’s history and is composed of fourteen participants representing two countries, eight states, and fourteen churches. In the first three months of
Growing up in the church, I thought I knew missionaries. They were distant relatives, Sunday morning guest speakers, and youth returning from short-term programs. Their experiences were backdropped by beautiful mountains, deserts, and jungles. They ate exciting food. They led daily healings that led multitudes
The year was 2006. Rosedale Network of Churches’ annual conference was scheduled to take place in Plain City, Ohio, and Merlin Miller of Middlebury, Indiana, had recently taken up biking. “I thought, Rosedale’s not that far away. Maybe I should bike to conference,” he remembers.