What Good & Godly People Leave Behind I just got home from my second anniversary dinner celebrating my 33rd wedding anniversary. We went to an Italian restaurant in Doral. It was lovely. Food was great. But that’s not the reason I am writing. As I ate dinner with my husband…

As I write this I am sitting in the lobby of my hotel on a super rainy Caribbean Saturday disappointed that the plans we had for today were essentially canceled because of two things: the rain and surprise life hits to friends who were going to show us the west…

Some of us will be carrying both emotions to the Table this Thanksgiving. On September 22, 2022 my husband and I lost our precious second son, Daniel Jeremiah Rios. It was his 23rd birthday and it was a shock. Although, his last 2 years were in and out of the…

I recently learned that there is no word for a parent that loses a child. In the article the author shared this: A wife who loses a husband is called a widow. A husband who loses a wife is called a widower. A child who loses his parents is called…

Yesterday, in the church planter training program I lead at Passion2Plant, our session was being led by faculty member Jose Humphreys. He shared powerful nuggets that made most of us pause and reflect throughout the session. But it was a quote towards the end of the session that seemed like…

A special needs mom’s perspective My husband and I often get the asked “what’s it like to have a special needs child?” Our cursory review for an answer is never fully exhaustive, I mean, how can one go through the details of 22 years living and caring for a very…

Planting Pastors in the new America A Case for Civic Advocacy Training Originally published in Christianity Today 2018 If you’ve been anywhere near the pulse of the evangelical church in America in the last few years, you know that there has been a push to plant more churches. You may…

On January 20, 2021, I wrote these words on a Facebook post after hearing the amazing young woman we have come to know as Amanda Gorman. When she read the words to her inauguration poem “The Hill We Climb” it reminded me that words matter. …

If you don’t know your culture, you’ll hire the wrong fit. By Dr. Elizabeth D. Rios Recently, an article on hiring the ideal candidate for a job mentioned that those doing the hiring in a company should take into account the culture of the organization. I’ve worked many years (as…