In a southern state of India, film teams are conducting a project to reach the San Jose* speaking people. This is a small migrated community from North India. One of the team held a prayer meeting in a home in September (2019). They shared that “anything you ask in the name of Jesus, you receive …
November Prayer Update
PRAISE: I continue to see slow, but steady improvement in the pain in my legs, and managing around it. In fact, I've improved to the point where I am preparing to participate in a 5K run for the local rescue mission on Thanksgiving day. Thank you again for your prayers. PRAY: Lift up several of my colleagues and …
Real Freedom in Life is Understanding Grace and Generously Giving It to Others and Yourself.
God’s Desire for One-Percenters by Eric Geiger*
When I was in high school I so badly wanted to be tall. We had a couple guys on our high school basketball team that were 6’5” or taller, and I envied them. They could dunk easily. They were more imposing defensively than me. I asked God to make me taller and He did not. …
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Two Essentials*
<Listen> Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?” Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ …
The Giving Pledge
This morning I read an article at the Chronicle of Philanthropy that revisits the Giving Pledge, an agreement among some of the richest people in the world to change the way people give. Meeting in 2009, financial superstars like Bill and Melinda Gates, George Soros, Oprah Winfrey, Warren Buffet, Ted Turner and more came up with the …
Spiritual Lifeline*
<LISTEN> If you woke each morning and your heart leapt with hope, knowing that the renewal of all things was just around the corner—might even come today—you would be one happy person. If you knew in every fiber of your being that nothing is lost, that everything will be restored to you and then some, …
Reaching Middle Eastern and North African Refugees in Germany and Western Europe.
One of more than 1700 partner ministries using the JESUS film is Elijah 21, a ministry reaching Middle East and North African refugees in Germany. Through their bus and church outreaches, they bring refugees from relocation camps and centers to local churches for a hot meal and an opportunity to see a film in their heart language. JESUS in Arabic, …
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October Prayer Update
PRAISE: Thank you for your prayers for the Script Adaption workshops in the Democratic Republic of the Congo last month, the team was able to get written scripts for all nine languages. They said it was a very difficult country to work in. Please pray now for the plans to record those language translations in the coming …
Reaching the Gewada People of Ethiopia with the JESUS Film.
Meet Binora and hear his powerful story! Hearing the gospel in the people's heart language is life-transforming for many who only speak Gewada. Watch Video Now