Welcome to Fruitful. A journey of discovering your God given purpose, using the spiritual gifts He has placed inside of you. Life with purpose. Life with meaning. Life directed by God. Join us in the conversation.
My hand was strumming with vigorous intensity, my voice resounding with a passionate plea to experience God, that familiar feeling came over me…
It’s not yet 4am and the Muslim call to prayer rings out in my hometown of Antalya, Turkey. Every neighborhood in our city…
I once heard that “Friends know the songs in our hearts and will sing them back to us when we’ve forgotten the words.”…
He’s got the whole world in his hands, he’s got the whole world in his hands! If you grew up in church, you…
Another year completed! Another 365 days filled with the all-embracing moments of what truly makes a year complete. From the fresh scent of…
Last Wednesday was the 18th anniversary of 9/11. I was 23 when I was at ground zero on that day. I must say…
Life has been a lot of things in recent months, but consistently, it’s been tough. The past 18 months have been a long…
This past week leading up to Easter, I’ve tried to read the Easter story every day and look for something new that I’ve…
On coming to the house, they saw the child with his mother Mary, and they bowed down and worshiped him. Then they opened…
Today, I pulled up to a familiar scene; on the side of the road was a woman holding a sign with her gaze…
For the beginning of this Fruitful Story, you may want to first read Teresa Ku-Borden’s LIVING IN GETHSEMANE This second Fruitful story by Teresa is excerpted…
I’m a millennial. I’m currently writing this on my MacBook Air, drinking a great cup of coffee, sitting on a daybed in the…
We’ve lived under some “real” persecution. When I think of some of the situations my husband and I have lived through over the…
Ramadan started 3 weeks ago on May 7 and it ends this Wednesday on June 5. It is the month of the Islamic…
Next Sunday is a day in the USA designated to celebrate the people who carry us into the world: our mothers. My mother is…
Can you believe we’re here and doing this? During the past five years, my husband David and I have looked at each other often…
Every time we meet on this middle eastern university campus, we stop at the kiosk for three brimming paper cups of sweet mint…
Tables. We have them in our homes, schools, work places. We fight to get a good space at one in a cafe and we…
“Move along, sister!” the police officer was firmly instructing me. I was standing in front of a scene I’d only ever heard about…
This year, Easter is celebrated today by Western Christians and on next Sunday by Orthodox Christians around the world. All around the world, the words “He…
It was in a small auditorium filled with second year college students that I met the little boy named Charlie who would change…
What are your plans now? This question greets me nearly every day. It’s not a bad question at all. In fact, it is…
I’ve been in Kenya a week. To be exact, 7 days and six hours. I’ve barely even scratched the surface of all that…
We were startled awake in the middle of the night by the persistent buzz of an iPhone going off near our heads. My parents…
If you knew that there was just “one thing” you could do that would impact everything else in your life and bring about…
With a twinkle in his eye, my precious little newborn boy lets out the most delightful coo, his gaze fixed upon me. I…
Last year at Christmas time, I spent two weeks at my in-laws’ dairy farm in Wisconsin. As a California girl, people kept asking me…
It was just over a year ago now that my husband and I cut our long-term overseas mission plans short to move back…
I’m learning the English language from The Internet, so i’ll do my best to tell you my story. We also learn English from…
I’ve always liked to know what to expect. To know what’s coming next. I think I was born that way. Following a schedule…
In 1980, Gerard Long had a dramatic encounter with God. Gerard and Jeannie married in 1981 and both felt called to serve in…
As I grew up, I had no idea that wisdom was being developed in me. I had listened to my mom speak truth…
Muslims… What pictures come to mind when you hear that word? Suicide bombers killing thousands of innocent people Angry looking men with long…
It seems like such a small thing, yet it can cause great discouragement. I know I’m not the first to experience it, but…
