Two years ago I shared with you about helping Oswald Salgado in Sri Lanka to use a mapping system I helped develop for tracking new churches. Now that small deposit of assistance has blossomed into a partnership across the entire country. I met with Mahesh de Mel, the Director of Missions for the National Christian […]
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Members of the Guatemala Education Workers Union (STEG) are holding teacher strikes that have progressed across various regions of the country and will continue until demands are met. In the midst of this, our national staff have used this stoppage of work to bring together teachers for Biblical training. Petén is a department of the
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In 2009, Olin Galan became a believer as he heard the Four Spiritual Laws. As a senior at Bicol University, Philippines, Olin then sought to build Christ-centered multiplying disciples to start multiplying churches. Before joining the Global Church Movement (through which he now both disciples students and leads a house church among factory workers), Olin
On March 1, 2018, in Manila, Philippines. I stood before 229 church planting movement leaders gathered from 89 countries at the Bold Moves GCM conference. These leaders are the result of the humble beginnings of a new division of Cru, called Global Church Movements. On 30 September 2010, in a guest house in Pretoria, South
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As the Persian-speaking churches have closed in Iran, many home churches have started without a pastor. Christian leaders are providing training outside the country for the house church leaders of Iran. A leader in this church network brings small groups to train and sends them back to continue their work in the house churches. He
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“They will appreciate this when they grow up!” These are the words of all parents at least once, if not multiple times. As a fairly new “empty nester” I can attest to the fact that it is extremely gratifying to hear words of gratitude from our young adult children. I recently met some leaders from
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One opportunity Amy is looking forward to is gathering women from our neighborhood for a new Bible study. In December we asked you to pray about a Christmas tea outreach. We hand delivered dozens of invitations to all the women in our neighborhood and 16 women gathered together! A friend from Jesus Film came along
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The 1,500th translation of the film JESUS was recently premiered in Ethiopia. This translation was made specifically for one of the most remote tribes who has ever seen the Jesus Film – the Daasanach of Southern Ethiopia. When the team arrived, they were surrounded by desolation and poverty like they had never seen before, but
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God’s greatness is evident in the ways he continues minister through and in our family. Rachel: Returned from serving 2 years with the Navigator’s Ministry in New Zealand. She wants to return to school to increase her ability to serve in cross-cultural missions. Jessica: Now serving 2 years with an urban church ministry in Chicago
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Recently in Chad 450 leaders gathered for the launching of the national church alliance. That may sound like just another ecumentical meeting in a distant country. But there has been deep division between the 23 denominations in Chad for 46 years. Divisions so strong that the leaders would not even be in the same room