Testimonies of Growing Churches
Just recently I was visiting in Holland. Holland is a country which was formed out of the protestant reformation. While I was visiting in Holland I really wanted to visit an authentic “Protest” church! (Protestants are so named because of their “Protest” of the Catholic Church. It was not only name calling, but a violent…
Anyone who knows my family knows that my wife is the most amazing part of it! My wife regularly gets compared to Jesus; no one ever confuses me and our Lord!! (I am working on it!) Anyway, yesterday my wife told me about the counsel she gave to one of our women leaders and it…
“T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution” by Steve Smith and Ying Kai. WIGTake Resources: Monument, Colorado. (www.churchplantingmovements.com) 2011. Review by Steve Hyde There is rarely a book that I find that I think every church leader, pastor, elder or deacon should read, but this is one. I love church research because it helps me to adjust my…
Poo Lao is a villager from Ralouch village in Kracheh province. The first time I met Poo Lao he was standing in the middle of a road, with a krama (a Cambodian red checkered cloth: a towel) around his waist, shaved head but sporting a goatee, shirtless and with a bulging belly. If you ever wondered…
Who knew that after more than five years of training we would have started more than 200 pastoral training centers on Mindanao, be on two radio stations daily, have 5 extension centers across Mindanao, and no “white faces” running the show. Isn’t it great! Actually, it is the first training and graduation that I have…
Each year for about a decade now we have received a team from Freedom Church in Owasso, Oklahoma (near Tulsa). This year we had typically amazing results. We had more than 800 kids in Vacation Bible School. That is more than 800 kids who learn about Jesus, hear the gospel and have great fun. We…
This week I have been teaching on the subject of deliverance at the Ethiopia Kale Heywert School of Missions. It is located in Southern Ethiopia about six long bumpy hours from the capital Addis Ababa. In the first hour after arriving in Ethiopia I saw a picture of a tall man and enquired who he was. …
Over nearly two decades in ministry in Cambodia we have tried to keep our ministries, church planting and even children’s centers sustainable. I have found that in order to be sustainable, the ministry must be sustainable from the beginning. Many ministries cannot grow, because their strategies are not sustainable. The cost of staff salaries, buildings…
There is a trait that I have observed in successful ministries and successful leader: learning. They are always learning new things and challenging themselves to learn new things. Periodically I meet people who are “unteachable”. They are usually highly educated in an engineering field or successful in a business or another field. When you are…
Today is a day I can never forget. I remember this day over my own birthday or anniversary. To successfully multiply ministry requires sacrifice and potentially the greatest sacrifice. If a leader is not willing to sacrifice greatly, there is now way that they will be able to successfully multiply their ministry. On this day,…