Michael Waid

We have all read about the horrors of the war in Ukraine. The staff members of Ukraine for Christ (as Cru is known in the country) have responded in different ways, depending on their circumstances and location. Vladyslav Voznyak, GCM leader in Ukraine, has sent us updates on what he and his team have been […]

I am currently in Ethiopia training over 700 church planters from around the country. These 700+ Ethiopian leaders are each responsible to coach 10 other local church planters who live in various villages throughout the country. They have received leadership coaching and vision for how to do ministry in their context. My session was on

Jesus Film Project is celebrating a huge milestone. By God’s grace, our films have reached 1 billion broadcast views! This number reflects the number of televisions across the world that tuned in to watch our films in just the last six years, from 2016 to 2021. In 2016 we started tracking television views of our

A key element of the Global Church Movements strategy is Prayer Care Share.  In other words, a church planter prays for the area he is trying to reach as he cares for the people in some practical way and seeks opportunities to explain how they can know God. The following story illustrates the power of

Where will you go to church on Sunday? Do you have people nearby with whom you can fellowship and receive encouragement? While the accessibility of virtual gathers has made this possible to achieve without leaving your home, we still have these available to us in abundance. Much of the world does not have a local

Mike will be in Eastern Europe for most of November helping to train a group of emerging leaders within our ministry. For the past 18 months we have been taking 21 staff of Cru from 13 different countries through a leadership development program. These are men and women who have already been leading within their

This month Mike is partnering with a Digital Ministry called Indigitous (a play on the word Indigenous and Digital). They host hands-on events for programmers, developers, engineers, UX designers, project managers, and others to unleash their creativity through technology. For the duration of the event, usually a day or weekend, people with technical backgrounds come

The Sauria Paharia people live in the hills of South Asia. They’re registered as a primitive tribe, and the 2011 census confirmed a population of 51,634 Sauria Paharia people. Historically, they worship ancestral spirits and other spirits they believe play a role in the world. But today, more than 30,000 of the Sauria Paharia have

A national missionary in closed Asian country organized a meeting located at a tourist town. He thought it would be safer in a tourist place, but it turned out to not be true. There are so many cameras in the streets, even in the lodging. They asked the lodging owner to turn off the cameras

Just after I sent last months update on the Coalition of the Willing (COTW) ,the Presidents and top leaders from 23 organizations gathered in Orlando Florida for the first gathering of the Coalition of the Willing. This group of missions organizations is collectively willing to coordinate their efforts and share strategic data on Christian and