Strategies for Training, Missions and Ministry
In the year 360 AD one of the largest churches in the world was built and dedicated to Jesus Christ on Christmas Day. It was called “Hagia Sophia” which means “Holy Wisdom”. From 360 AD until 1453 AD this church remained one of the most significant churches in the world and even more prominent than…
I remember the moment when I heard that an 8.9 magnitude earthquake struck northern Japan. I know my close friends and partners in ministry are based 300km north of Tokyo in Sendai. The initial report I received on my mobile phone said the quake was centered 280km northeast of Tokyo. All I could do was…
Most days I spend many hours in a vehicle driving. Most days I am driving from A to B to conduct ministry or meet with leaders and encourage them. In traveling in the Philippines in every town and every main road there are numerous churches. It would be easy to assume that the Philippines have…
Today I went to one our Antioch Institute training sites in the Philippines in a typically remote area. The location of the school was absolutely beautiful. We drove for many miles through tribal lands which were sold to Dole to grow pineapples after World War Two. There are pineapples as far as the eye can…
What you are looking at may seem insignificant. It is the Khmer Bible on a $90 cell phone. This phone can be purchased locally and other phone models as cheaply as $50 which can run the Bible as well. Currently, nearly every church leader, adult and many young people (even in Cambodia) have access to…
In November 2010 we were blessed in Poipet of a team coming from Memphis, Tennessee to build us a playground at the Poipet Imparting Smiles children’s center. This was all possible because Steve and Ellie Marcum at Bellevue Baptist Church were inspired to help the kids there. They rallied their church’s VBS program this summer…
Antioch Institute Philippines has been very successful and is meeting great needs of rural pastors on Mindanao. In late November we had a gathering of the students from 2010. The 350 leaders are all trainers who each run their own Antioch Institute training programs in their area. Some of the schools are small with only…
On Thursday, November 25, 2010 we finished a gathering with about 350 tribal pastors from over 20 tribes on Mindanao Island in the Philippines. Pastor Ben Embaan coordinates an incredible training ministry which reaches hundreds of leaders and thousands of believers with quality leadership training each month. Ben has four wonderful children, a boy and…
Over the last year we have been teaching and counseling people on the sanctity of human life. In Cambodia, which is well-known for its “Killing Fields”, the value of human life is seldom promoted. Satan has had a strangle hold of death on this country for multiple millennia. John 10:10 tells us of Satan’s plans…
On October 31, 1517 (493 years ago) Martin Luther posted his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Castle which contained a catholic church and seminary. This act and the debate that followed brought about the division of the Western (Roman) church. Division has since become one of the major characteristics of the Protestant movement. …