Enoch, or Henok in Ethiopian, is a missionary evangelist who has served God in many remote areas of Ethiopia. Five years ago he served in a desert region which borders Somalia. While he was serving there by evangelizing and trying to plant a new church he heard the Holy Spirit speak to him clearly. The…
Our day started early. Craig and Holly, from Australia on sabbatical from Stairway Church, are helping us with the new church plant. Their day started the earliest. Their cute baby girl started vomiting in the night. It was a long night for them. Added to that, it rained all night. When we got up in…
Twelve hours from now, we are launching a new church in Poipet, Cambodia. The church is focused on children and demonstrating the love of Christ. This last week has been a challenge, but it is one I have clearly seen before. It is satan’s attempt to discourage me or cause me to quit what God…
Nearly three years ago God spoke to me about Poipet being a gateway in the spiritual as it is in the natural (the busiest border crossing in Cambodia). Since that time we started our Imparting Smiles children center to help children. We started two companies (construction company and plantation), we are building a women’s center called…
Abera is an amazing man with an amazing wife. I met them here in Ethiopia. They are national evangelists and missionaries. Abera is hard to miss. He has only one eye but has big smile. As I was teaching I talked about persecution and his wife signaled to me that Abera had been beaten for…
Each year our ministry in Cambodia trains thousands of pastors and church leaders. These church leaders are able to start hundreds of new churches every year. They start these new churches among people who were formerly non-Christian. A few years ago, we started the same kind of ministry in the southern Philippines with similar results. …
Comparing these two churches feels like comparing apples and oranges. How can we compare the effectiveness of two entirely different churches. I have an idea! Let’s take a look at what the Bible says about the New Testament church. Let’s list the Biblical characteristics of a New Testament church.
In Ethiopia I had the great honor of meeting a group of believers who lived in a very remote part of the country. There was no road to their village, only a random path marked by the odd African shade tree. When the pastor was directing me there, he tried to talk to me in his broken English. He explained that it takes him four hours to walk to the village. This village used to be fully Muslim. He shared with me that this church “was in the shadows”.
I met a fascinating man the other day in a rural village in Ethiopia. First let me tell you what the world sees of him, then let me tell you what God has enabled him to do.
A young pastor explained that after the August training session he went back to his area determined to reach 9 more villages around him with a new church. So he and his wife got permission from the nine villages to show the gospel. Now they have 9 churches planted in less than four months work.