Finding Center

Finding Center

July, 2020:  Our world is out of Center.   Our hearts are pushed sideways.  Our minds are too filled with unknown.  Our actions betray our confusion.   There is so much unknown.  We are out of...
Opening Worship at Ober

Opening Worship at Ober

Smoky Mountain Resort Ministries celebrated a worship service at Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort for the blessing of our equipment for the Snow Sports Center and Ski Patrol. It was a wonderful moment of fellowship and of revealing God-with-us at the start of our season! A...
A Statement of Mission

A Statement of Mission

by Jessie Perrie “Look to me and be saved, all you ends of the earth, for I am God, and there is no other.” Isaiah 45:22 The statement, “and there is no other”, while it comes at the end of the verse, is the foundation and the source for all the lines preceding it. We...
Wilderness Will Rejoice

Wilderness Will Rejoice

The wilderness will rejoice and blossom!  Isaiah 35: 1 The mountains are blooming with the beauty of rhododendron! The hills are alive with the sound of music! The Smoky Mountain Resort Ministries staff dorm is full of energy and excitement and holy meals. The summer...
Will You?

Will You?

“Do what’s right and don’t tell anybody.”   That’s what Don Hammonds of the Home Mission Board told me when I was making a hard decision in the mid-1980’s. “It doesn’t matter who gets the credit as long as the job gets done.”   This was a guiding principle of Paul...