The next time you hear from us, we will be reporting on our annual Bible camp. As of this writing we have around 200 children from ages 8-18 signed up for one of the three weeks of camp. It’s an exciting time of year for...
By Phil Waldron, CEO James Franklin McCreary III was first a friend and then a partner in ministry with Donna and I for almost forty years. During the early eighties, we were a young couple at a church in Atlanta for years where James and Merrill...
By: Phil Waldron, CEO “Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy” is the title of a book that Donna and I have just finished reading. The book argues that lament is a neglected but essential dimension of the Christian life, a way to bring sorrow to God in the...
By Phil Waldron, CEO “The Devil wants nothing more than to crush you. He wants to steal from you everything you value. He wants to kill everything in your life that's good. Ultimately, he wants to destroy you. If he can claim the victory over your...
For the past several years, our congregation has had an annual ladies’ event that fills up an entire afternoon. This year was no exception, and we are happy to report that it was a great success. We had 98 women from five different congregations attend...
By: Phil Waldron, CEO “The Butterfly Effect, a concept from chaos theory, describes how small changes in initial conditions can lead to large differences in the outcome of a complex system. Essentially, a seemingly insignificant event can have significant consequences. This idea is often illustrated by the example of...
By Phil Waldron, CEO Recently Donna and I were invited to visit an incredible mission effort in San José Costa Rica. It is called Roblealto and has been in continuous operation for more than 90 years. I ran into the President of the non-profit and the...
By Phil Waldron, CEO It is with mixed emotions that I write the following words about the passing of my father Jimmy Eugene Waldron on July 15th of this year. He was eighty-eight years old and would have completed eighty-nine years on November 4th. He had...
By: Phil Waldron, CEO August 1st, 2008, we signed the papers that gave birth to Mission UpReach, a mission of the Campus View Church of Christ. Almost one year later, our family, minus Sarah our oldest daughter, arrived in Honduras on June 5th. The day we arrived,...
By Phil Waldron, CEO I Timothy 4:12 says, 12 Let no one despise you for your youth, but set the believers an example in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.” It has been fifteen years since we as the Waldron family landed here in Santa...
