Karen Campbell-Nelson, Author at Global Ministries

The Tenderness and Rawness of Fasting

After two months of house worship and empty church buildings, the Synod office of GMIT (the...

The following was sent by mission co-worker in Indonesia, Karen Campbell-Nelson, in response to an...

This fall, John and I took our annual vacation and combined it with some of next year’s vacation...

I admit it, church is not always the contemplative space for self-reflection and meditation that I...

After several years living in Kupang, the provincial capital of West Timor, Indonesia, John and I...

In July this year, in Oe Ue, a remote village in East Amanuban Sub-district of South Central Timor,...

My house* and those of my two children have been destroyed; three houses. I was born here in...

It’s not every year the tropical rains drench, and drench some more, but this is one of those...

In her seminal work, Texts of Terror (Fortress Press, 1984), Phyllis Trible gives us stories, a...

Karen Campbell-Nelson, Global Ministries Mission Co-worker in Indonesia, shares a worship liturgy...

It isn’t easy to be one nation with 17,000 islands, 1,300 ethnic groups, 450 languages, and...

Wait with anticipation is the age-old theme of Advent. As a child I (Karen) remember waiting with...

News closer to home: Yesterday there was a demonstration involving representatives of GMIT's Synod...

Earlier this week there was a national symposium to debate the widespread killings, torture, and...

Karen Campbell-Nelson serves with the Evangelical Church of West Timor as a Professor. Her...