Gospel ADHD
Gospel ADHD On our recent trip to Europe, we realized something profound about the gospel: it is dangerously easy to get sidetracked from the good news of Jesus and fall into a performance-based, religious mindset that completely subverts the gospel. This is true for...
Season One – Episode One
From the Deepest Pit – Niya, Russia
A story from deepest Russia, from our friends Yuriy and Olga Drozhzhin, overseers of a network of churches in Siberia, Russia. The winters in Siberia are cold beyond most of our comprehension. Temperatures of 40 to 50 degrees below zero Farenheit are common. And yet...
From Communism to Church Planting
Ever wonder how God broke through the iron grip of the Soviet Union to plant His churches all over the former communist world? It happened through brave souls who heard his call and obeyed when there were few assurances. Nestle up with the story of pioneer apostolic...
God Doesn’t Want Your Goats
We are in the Volta region of Ghana, in the village of Bowire, Pastor Prince and my friend Bright are giving me a tutorial on the way spiritists use blood sacrifices to appease evil spirits. “God doesn’t want your goat.” Pastor Prince told one gathering of villagers...
Oversight in the Local Church: The Joyful Privilege Pastor Pete Beck III
Introduction From the beginning God intended that people care for one another. When the Lord asked Cain of Abel’s whereabouts, Cain retorted with a question: “Am I my brother’s keeper?” The answer then and now is a resounding “Yes!” All of us are called to be...
Notes on “After the Walls Came Down” By Marc Paladino
PrefaceWalls are not necessarily a bad thing. They provide defense, privacy, definition – they give distinction so that the city stands out from the rest of the world. We all have cultural walls that circumscribe our paradigms. Often, these culturally conditioned,...
Aleksandr & Larisa – The Village of Niya
Aleksandr & Larisa, leaders of small church in village name Niya. Short story of 2016 Many years ago, father and son went out for weekend in the forest for fishing, they enjoyed the time together. They spend a night in a tent, early in the morning Aleksandr went...
Pastor Bolesław Dawidow – Poland
All has started in 1963. Pastor Bolesław Dawidow decided to plant a church in Warsaw. First meeting consisted of 5 people: him, his wife Stasia, their two daughter of underschool age and one elderly believer. Church had meetings in two rooms of Dawidow’s apartment for...
Yuriy and Olga Drozhzhin – Moscow
We know for sure that God desired for both of us to expand His Kingdom and to bring glory to God! God took us from different places, united us in marriage in 1979, and worked hard on us to make one from two of us. Praise God, now we are a really good, mobile team. We...