Word Made Flesh

Dear friends and family, Despite some of the struggles we’ve had – and we can only imagine that there will be much tougher ones ahead – sometimes it’s hard to believe that we have the privilege of doing what we do. I (Adam) recently decided to walk to work. It took about a half hour, [...]

This is the audio of the reflection Anna gave, from the national staff point of view, about life in community and missions.  She gave this talk during the Word Made Flesh field forum in Nepal, February 2009. El audio de la reflexion de Anna desde la punta de vista nacional de la vida en comunidad [...]

Job Title: Community Liaison Days/hours per week: 5 days/40 hours per week Employment Start Date: May 1, 2010 (flexible) Job Description: Word Made Flesh (WMF) is searching for a Community Liaison-a central role and responsibility for the WMF International Office in Omaha, Nebraska. The Community Liaison serves with a three-fold purpose: To create a warm [...]

June 2009 Prayer Letter Click the attached PDF to view my latest prayer letter.

By Jean Vanier In 1976, we welcomed Claudia into our l’Arche community in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. She was seven years old, blind and suffering from severe autism. We found her in a local asylum where she had been abandoned as a child. When she arrived in l’Arche, she used to scream a lot; she was totally [...]

By Dr. Samuel Kamaleson We are created for community. Relationship constitutes the core of redemption. St. Paul writing to Timothy about his gifted role in transforming mission reminds him about the Holy Spirit’s ability to heal us from the fear of people: “For the Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid [...]

By Viv Grigg Is Word Made Flesh a Protestant order among the poor? In Protestant Mission Societies: The American Experience, Dr. Ralph Winter argues that mission structures are equivalent functionally to Catholic orders. Protestant orders are built around core values that resemble those of the early phases of Catholic orders. With the emergence of new [...]

We welcomed Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove for April’s Beggars Society, WMF’s monthly advocacy meeting in Omaha. Jonathan is an author of several books and is a leading voice in the New Monastic movement—a way of living in community that seeks to represent the Kingdom of God. In his community house, The Rutba House, in Durham, NC, Jonathan [...]

WMF “Position Papers” do not necessarily represent the opinions of the entire WMF community, but seek to articulate alternative positions on issues of mission and spirituality. The starting points for these papers are the WMF identity statements and WMF’s commitment to living out these principles in daily life and ministry. What do people think of [...]