“Sylvia” sits on the edge of a hotel room bed. Numb. Her most recent client, moments out the door on his way to whatever comes next. She needs to clean up before the next one arrives, but just can’t move. Her phone continues buzzing every few minutes with clients responding to ads on public websites…
From the beginning of the “refugee crisis,” churches and ministries in Greece were restricted from sharing the “hope within us” as we lovingly cared for the physical needs at the various refugee camps around the city. We watched thousands pass by us, hoping they would hear about Jesus along the way. The wake-up for us…
Imagine that you were searching for a church to attend. What are some of things that you would include on your list of “essentials” as you visited churches from week to week? Solid biblical teaching would probably make the list along with other things like varieties of ways to get involved, size, location, programs for…
Global Perspective: Forming Church Leaders to Turn Growth into Maturity The days when Evangelicals in Colombia were ignored or marginalized as an insignificant minority are gone. The exponential growth of evangelicals in the country—as in the rest of Latin America—has brought a dramatic change in the religious sociological landscape. We have become a significant minority…
I Can’t Imagine Going Without This! “The Center for Intercultural Training (CIT) provided us with a realistic idea of what we would encounter cross-culturally. We have referred back to our training countless times over the past three years since arriving on the field.” “The BIGGEST benefit has been knowing what to expect emotionally so that…
After training around Latin America for many years, one of my favorite stories is still the first time I was invited to travel internationally to train church planters. The town was Sincelejo, Colombia, in the heart of the conflict between the paramilitary and the guerillas. There were only a few churches, and all non-Colombian workers…
I’ve been thinking about courage recently. What is courage, and what does courage do, not only for others, but for us as well? C.S Lewis writes, “Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.” I remember month…
“Be careful what you teach in class on Wednesday, because it probably will be preached in church on Sunday.” That’s what my mentor, Dr. Gene Green, warned me, before I first began teaching in Colombia. A former Latin American seminary president, he knew what he was talking about…seminary students very often take their sermons directly…
For much of the twentieth century, Western countries in North America and Europe were by far the primary senders of those taking the Gospel message to the ends of the earth. Pioneer missionaries left home and culture, sailing the ocean for months, giving up many personal comforts, in order to bring the Good News of…
Given the rapid numerical growth of the church in Latin America, there’s an urgent need for leaders who are Biblically grounded, growing in Christ-like character and actively using their God-given gifts to deepen the walks of new believers and pour themselves into developing younger leaders. Camping ministry has been effectively mobilizing Latins to missionary service…