On Tuesday, July 28, International Cooperating Ministries (ICM), a not-for-profit trans-denominational ministry that partners with indigenous ministries in 52 countries, and contemporary Christian radio network, Air 1 Radio, will raise funds to build church orphanages for ICM’s Church Builders India project.
“During the morning service we had communion and foot washing. Pastor Daniel said I was the first American with whom he had ever washed feet…”
A career missionary couple offers their assessment of the changing face of being a missionary in today’s world.
The experience of pastor Pavel Golub of Apostolovo, Ukraine, demonstrates the progress of the Church of God in the former Soviet republic.
Oral Roberts University (ORU) is signing an agreement with the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) that will position ORU as the exclusive educational strategic partner for the NHCLC. This agreement will make ORU the only college or university with this relationship.
Adventures in Missions (AIM), a non-profit organization that facilitates short-term mission trips throughout the world and within the United States, is pleased to introduce the “Be Conference.”
My wife and I recently went to a Middle Eastern country to spend a week. We visited some churches and met with leaders who work among the people there. They encouraged me by their response to the Christian TV programs we are producing in their native languages. Everywhere we go, we are encouraged by viewers that we meet.
House Church Leaders Conference
From there we traveled to another Middle Eastern country to host our annual house church leader’s conference. Thirty-five people joined us. It was an amazing time for teaching, worship, prayer and even washing each others’ feet. We spent one week together and then continued on to Northern Africa.
Our journey to Northern Africa was to pursue several important goals including spending time encouraging the house church leaders there.
We had two meetings with house church leaders, training them how to use the “Follow Me” program, which has 37 discipleship lessons in 37 episodes and studies. We also trained them how to start new house churches in their cities. Around 1,000 people in Northern Africa are using this program. We also had a four-day conference for further leadership training that was attended by 21 leaders. Several of these leaders oversee numerous house church leaders in their region.
Satellite TV Ministry and Local Ministry
For the new Christian TV program, “What’s Happening?” we wanted to shoot outdoors. To do this, we needed government permission to use the Media Production City. God gave us favor with the non-Christian director who told us that we were the first Christian program to use this facility. He provided security officers and he himself watched all the recordings. We are very thankful for the creative TV director that God sent to us to put together this new program. Our main shoots were in an outdoor studio that looks like a 1930s street.
Many “extras” were in the street to make it lifelike. Almost 100 people were involved in the street scenes. Each 30 minute episode will feature a 10 minute drama and street and studio interviews which raise a discipleship question. This is followed by my interview with a counsellor and Bible teacher.
The format and content come together in a way that says the truth of the Gospel is real. We were able to completed the interviews for 26 programs and now we are working on the drama and the other interviews. Praise God that we are able to reach an otherwise unreachable nation with the love of Christ through this media outlet.
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Names and places are removed for safety purposes.
Due to restricted freedoms in certain areas of the world, a television ministry is vital! Those who could never hear the Word of God are now experiencing His presence through television ministries, produced in their native languages. We are seeing many come to Christ through this ministry.
© 2009 Church of God World Missions
A leadership seminar for Church of God leaders in the African country of Ethiopia was recently conducted in Addis Ababa.
Urging poetry lovers toward a deeper relationship with God is Laurita McKerchers’s gift. In her new devotional book, “A Tugging of the Heartstrings,” Mrs. McKercher’s original poems lend additional illumination to well-known Bible passages. Poetic verse is matched with biblical verse and the result is renewed intimacy with God.
On January 4, 1910, R.M. Evans and his wife became the first Church of God foreign missionaries as they arrived in the Bahamas with native Bahamians, Edmond and Rebecca Barr.
KENYA — It was feeding time, and we woke up the little girls, named Naomi and Ruth, and were allowed to feed Ruth while Mary fed Naomi. The babies are very small, about four pounds, but their skin is very loose on their arms and legs.
Parents often worry their teen will learn about their own past mistakes. Perhaps they think their teen will repeat some of those same mistakes if they are revealed. But I say just the opposite is true.
Sky Angel, a national provider of faith-based and family-friendly television and radio
programming, announces the addition of the popular “baby boomer” network AmericanLife TV Network™ (ALN) to their channel lineup. Programming is now available on Channel 303 to subscribers with the Family Package or Family Values Pak.
Cloud Ten Pictures Inc., the Christian film production and distribution house behind the LEFT BEHIND film series, has recently acquired the all media distribution rights to THE RIVER WITHIN, produced and directed by Zac Heath.
In September 2007, I reported to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, directly from training at the Army Chaplains School at Fort Jackson, South Carolina …
After recently celebrating its one-year anniversary Total Prayze Entertainment Group continues with it’s vision to become one of the world’s premier Gospel & Christian entertainment companies by expanding company websites, developing productions, and partnering with major industry events.
Gap exists between what large churches need and what seminaries produce.
Friends and family of an Idaho soldier who was captured in Afghanistan prayed for his safe return Sunday – the day after a Taliban video posted online showed him expressing doubt as to whether he’d ever be able to see his family again.
On one of my lunch hours, I went out and bought a new cell phone. I was ecstatic about the great offer a co-worker had clued me into—more minutes for literally the same amount of money I had been paying for my previous service, and no roaming charges! What a deal!
But I had no idea when I walked out of the cellular store reveling in my purchase, bag full of manuals, brochures and terms of contract in tote, that this new phone had many more capabilities than the ones that had first attracted me to it.
Lee University’s Center for Adult and Professional Studies (CAPS) will be introducing a new course entitled Church and The Law this coming fall semester.
