God is on a mission to redeem people from every tribe, language, people, and nation to himself for his ultimate and sovereign glory. The reality is that all of us have been biblically mandated as followers of Jesus to play a part in God’s mission. Each one of us has a part to play in praying, giving, sending, or going. But how do we know if we are being called to go?

Over the first weekend of November, at Christ Church, we took time in our services to pray for the persecuted church. We want to encourage our church family to continue to pray for persecuted church.

In 2023, the fifth church was planted in Nicaragua on the island of Ometepe. The lost are being saved, and disciples are being multiplied for the glory of Christ!

I reached adulthood when the world shut down, thus I began to feel antsy for my “young adult” life to begin. I started to get an itch to do something useful, and I began to pray that the Lord would open doors for service opportunities.

As we remain committed to church planting around the world, we want to give a direct update from one of our church plants in Nicaragua.

In the ideal scenario when you church plant, you grow a core team and start small group meetings to build commitment, cohesion, and impart a vision. This vision leads the group to a passion and faith in Jesus to build his church. Pastor Ben Fortney’s scenario was all but ideal. But God still moved.

Because of the generosity of our church family in giving to our missions fund, we were able to quickly respond to the crisis in Ukraine by sending significant resources to our long-time partner Biserica Deo Gloria in Cluj, Romania.