The Gift of Forgiveness

The Gift of Forgiveness is a 26-minute video I did at a request from the Women’s Service Team of the International Churches of Christ. It aired as a part of a webinar on the topic of Forgiveness on December 13, 2025.

I created this video for a webinar when I was asked to speak on this topic by the International Churches of Christ Women’s Service Team. I had the privilege of chairing that group as COVID hit. I am very proud of these faithful Christian sisters of mine. They are all very busy women living all around the world who find time regularly to come together and create content like this for the women around them, and for whomever it may encourage.

I was so pleased to be asked to do this, as I had been meaning to record something on forgiveness like this for my grief recovery clients who have a Christian faith. What do you think about the notion of forgiveness as something we need to practice? Was there anything different in this video from what you understand? I’d love to hear about it: tammy@missionstory.com.

Below are two pages of handouts that were distributed to those who registered for the webinar and attended via the Zoom link.

Biblical Antidotes to Burnout

This was about an hour-long virtual lecture I did as a breakout class for the ICOC Teachers Service Team conference, The Art of Scripture Reading. I was grateful to be able to do this virtually as the conference coincided with plans for us to bring our family together in celebration of Andy’s and my 35th wedding anniversary. That was one of those things we almost didn’t do — rather self-indulgent, inconvenient, the timing is awkward, it’s expensive, etc. — and I am SO grateful that we did. That’s a story for another post, how it was a wonderful time and we returned home to Ukraine just in time for the declaration of martial law and the beginning of the war (from Ukraine’s perspective) on February 24th, 2022. That’s why the setting for my class is a hotel room in Colorado.

It was an honor to be included in this lineup of known scholars and my own heroes of faith. I was very grateful to have the chance to talk about the fresh discoveries I’ve been making in my personal Bible study, so relevant to the topic of “burnout.”