On January 1, 2011, Ron Bowell, pastor of CrossRoads Church (Salina, Kans.), posted the first entry on his blog, “Friar Tuck’s Word of the Day.” At the time, his vision for the daily devotional was fairly simple. “I promoted it at church, thinking I would have some folks interested in it,” he states. But just 10 months into the project, Ron reports that in addition to locals, he has regular readers from 47 countries, including Bangladesh, Bosnia, Turkey, and South Korea. “We really can have an effect on the world without ever leaving home,” he says.
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This article originally appeared in the fall 2011 issue of In Part magazine.
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