catapult magazine

vol. 2, num. 19 :: 2003.10.10 — 2003.10.23

It's nearly impossible to be part of a Christian community and not go on some sort of mission trip at some point. What should be our objectives as we act as ambassadors of Christ in foreign countries?

Feature

Commuting to Africa

by Suzanne Lind

A North American woman finds home on a vast and colorful continent that inspires both incredible joy and difficult questions.

Editorial

Claim your calling

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

How can the body function if one part is missing? or worse yet, performing the wrong task?

Articles

Emphasizing global citizenship

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

An interview with Tom Meyers, director of the Study Service Term program at Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana.

To Russia, with love

by Cyndy Vander Giessen

A mother of four leaves the North American continent for the first time to go on a mission trip to Russia (in the middle of winter).

Under my skin

by Bridget DeYager

A period of service in Haiti leaves a language arts teacher transformed.

Seeking to be changed

by Carolyn Sybesma

A Midwestern college student volunteers for an eight-week summer mission trip to Eastern Europe.

Reviews

<I>School of Rock</I> replaces irony with enthusiasm

by Jason Vande Brake

A review of Jack Black's film School of Rock.

Enough is enough

by Robert Moll

A new book by Arthur Simon challenges Christians to develop a response to rampant consumerism.

Still standing, but out of the shadows

by Jason Vreeman

A new documentary on the Funk Brothers gives proper credit to the fathers of Motown in a groundbreaking interactive DVD.

daily asterisk

Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.

Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home

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