Tag Archives: congregations

Increasing our outreach to the lost

AlanNalley

Last week veteran missionary Alan Nalley came with his family from Curitiba in the far south of Brazil to teach a seminar on small group evangelism. Fifty-two church leaders came from fourteen different congregations to gleam from his experience on how to more effectively reach the lost in the time God has given us here.

On a journey together

Mike and Aureni

Aureni and I had a good return trip to Recife on the fourth. We found everything in order except Zelda (our ten-year-old dachshund), who took what seemed like an unreasonably long time (several seconds) to remember who we are. In the two months we were stateside we were able to report to nine congregations and […]

The Woman Warrior

Maria

Maria was sexually abused as a child, rejected by her mother she lived in the streets for some time of her life. Later she married a man with alcohol problems that couldn’t be faithful to her. That situation brought many problems to her life including health problems. Later she got divorced. If I stopped this […]

“I am again in the pains of childbirth”

"I am again in the pains of childbirth"

Here (4:19) the apostle Paul speaks of his struggle to mature the church in Galatia. Every parent will testify that raising a child is infinitely harder than conceiving one. This principle is true when it comes to caring for a congregation of the Lord’s people. Starting one isn’t nearly as difficult as it is to […]