Today’s story comes from a husband-wife team of Standing Stone shepherds who minister in Europe.  God is doing great things around the globe! **Names and

Standing Stone shepherd Joel Rissinger serves in the US and abroad.  Today’s story comes from the front lines of Joel’s work with ministry leaders in

For some time now, I’ve been meeting with a young man enrolled in a pastoral internship program through his local church.  He heard about Standing

Whenever I get a referral from our website, I imagine the courage it must have taken for that ministry leader to reach out.  He or

“I reached out to a local Christian counseling center,” he told me.  “They said it would be a couple weeks before anyone could see me.” 

One day I received a voicemail from our national office. Unsure where to turn, experiencing a crisis she couldn’t navigate on her own, the woman

I met John over 4 years ago while teaching a class at Talbot Seminary.  Standing Stone had started a pilot program, offering shepherding to seminary

A year and a half or so, my wife and I dropped off a few Standing Stone flyers at a church in an Indianapolis suburb. 

Missionaries typically experience some level of reverse culture shock when moving back to their country of origin, but for one ministry leader I care for,

I’ve been meeting with Henry for past 5 years. He’s a great guy and loves being a pastor. He pastors a small church that does big things