The JESUS film ministry takes our staff members into many unchurched areas. Several of these areas are known for witchcraft, and our staff must sometimes engage in spiritual battles in these places. Encompassing Lake Victoria and snow-capped mountains, Uganda is home to diverse wildlife—chimps and gorillas, hippos and more. The people of Uganda comprise more …
Our US Church Movements ministry hosted 59 pastors, church planters and mission leaders at a training. We introduced them to a disciple-making process to equip people to initiate, build, and multiply faith communities (churches & discipleship groups), so that every follower of Jesus has a place for connection, growth and training for mission. The week …
In March 2015, several Tanzanian church leaders were among the 123 leaders from eight countries who attended the launching of the East Africa GACX (Global Alliance for Church Multiplication). At that event, the Tanzanian delegation was inspired by the vision to plant a church for every 1,000 people in their country. Upon returning home, they …
Arobogast Henga unfolded a big piece of paper on which he had drawn his church multiplication chart showing the 25 “generations” of churches God had raised up in the past two years. In church planting, “generations” is the term used to describe successive church plantings: a church plants a church (two generations), which plants a …
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Our third daughter, Monica, graduated from the University of Florida with her Masters in Structural Engineering. This was a 5 year program combined with her undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering. Monica will move three hours from home to West Palm Beach in March to begin working at a structural engineering firm where she has previously …
Across Eastern Europe, it can be a challenge to meet spiritually interested people. To solve this problem, Kejdis, our friend and leader of the church planters in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), decided to use social media to engage new audiences. Kedjis and his wife Rudina, began pulling together volunteers to develop Facebook pages highlighting …
“For this reason, because I have heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love toward all the saints, I do not cease to give thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers” Ephesians 1:15-16 We want you to know how much we are truly thankful to God for each of you! Over …
We just returned from Ethiopia where we gathered with 114 leaders from 37 countries. This was an alternate gathering for those who could not obtain visas to our gathering several months ago in Greece. As you can imagine, God had the whole thing under his sovereignty and plan. We had no issues with people obtaining …
Last week I got to represent Jesus Film Project at a church planting conference in Dallas. It’s so great to be able to attend a conference with Mike where we both have separate but related roles. There is both overlap and individuality. I especially enjoy connecting with others in ministry and getting to share what …
Last month we helped gather 275 leaders from 94 countries that are working with our ministry’s church division, called Global Church Movements. We also had a number of partnering organizations join us. We were in Greece which has a rich history of the Christian church. It is the area that the Apostle Paul traveled during …