Our first value is to Seek God First and with that in mind we decided to make a Staff Playlist of our favorite worship videos for you to enjoy. Rilla: HR & Finance Manager Cheryl: Finance Assistant Desiree: Donation Support Specialist Bill: Volunteer Finance Assistant Wendy: Director of Mobilization Callie: Mobilizer for Latin America Jennifer: Business…
Partnership is a word that would very well sum up our (almost) 5 years in Budapest. Soon after we landed in December of 2011, we began to attend a church called Agóra that had been planted the year before. The two pastors who planted it, Trey Shaw (IMB) and Hamar Dávid, asked me (Ben) to join…
I am a Thai-Chinese American, born and raised in New York City, and by God’s grace, I have been called to serve in Christ as a missionary. I love the city. Presently, I serve in a city of over 12 million people. Just ~0.5% of the population identify themselves as a followers of Christ. More…
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…
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 have been involved in missions for over three decades, and in that time I have personally found that one of the biggest hurdles for people raising support is the Ask. Most people are afraid to ask or don’t know how to ask for support. Unfortunately, a lot of times, we treat support raising “as…
You’ve already done the hard part. You made a good list of contacts, and you made some phone calls. You worked up all the bravery that you could muster, and you asked for an appointment, an opportunity to share what God is doing in your life. To your surprise, they agreed to meet over coffee,…
When I first realized that God was calling me on a journey to minister overseas, my first thought was, “Oh, no, I’m going to have to raise financial support.” At that moment I had some very mixed feelings. Let’s just say I wasn’t the most excited about it. I saw my ministry overseas as the…