Partnering with Local Churches to Train and Send Missionaries Worldwide
Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, July was a month of preparation. We arrived back in Northern Ireland at the beginning of the month, and we have been busy preparing to leave Northern Ireland and move to London. God has
Yesterday was a very significant day in the history of Northwest Baptist Church. The church is just over 5 years old. Up to this point, the only pastors of the church have been American church-planters. Yesterday, the church voted unanimously
Dear Pastors & Praying Friends, The Lord blessed our last month of furlough. In June, we visited 9 more churches for a total of 90 different churches and 50,000 miles in the past 10 months. June 11-20, I taught 24
Only 7 days until…. …we return to the United Kingdom. After driving 50,000 miles, visiting 94 different churches, spending a great deal of time with our families and friends, and getting further training, it is time for us to return
UPDATE Last week, I taught for 12 hours on Mentoring for Mission at the Our Generation Training Center. I really enjoyed spending time with the students there who are training for missions and church ministry. Wednesday night, we were at Grace
UPDATE We enjoyed a very nice week spending time with my family up in Ohio. This was probably the last time to see them before we return to the field, so it was a time of mixed emotions. We are
I thought this post by David Murray on his HeadHeartHand Blog was excellent. I agree with everything he says, and I am very convicted about this area of my life. There’s one characteristic that separates the successful from the unsuccessful in
One of the biggest problems with mission work in Europe is the same problem missionaries have all over the world: they fail to train leaders. Missionaries spend all their time trying to get converts and do not train leaders. Missionaries
I just read a great post called The Missionary and the Mentor from the Gospel in China blog. Here is the article below. Let me know what you think. ‘Who is your mentor?’ This is the question that I would ask
The last 5 Thursday evenings, I have gone fishing with a young man whom I am mentoring as part of a community program to mentor young people who are at risk of breaking the law. Tonight as were fishing, we