Ministry Updates

Tomorrow morning, my wife and I will be flying over the Pacific Ocean.  This year, we're celebrating Thanksgiving with my parents, sister, brother-in-law and their baby boy in Korea.  I'm sure that we'll all have an incredible time of fellowship together over some lovely home-cooked meals. Many of you are also gearing up for amazing meals (yes, multiple meals!) and quality times of sharing with your family  We are, after all, about to celebrate Thanksgiving!

Across the world in Togo, while Thanksgiving isn't celebrated as an official holiday, I am sure that thousands of families are ...

With Thanksgiving next week and Christmas soon after, it's certainly a busy time!  It's easy to start feeling stressed about hosting a family gathering or finding just the right gift for a loved one.

Elizabeth George says, "Take a little breather.  Let's plan to survive the holidays, no matter what!  And, you know what?  It takes just that-a plan!"  In her latest Christmas special, Elizabeth suggests 10 steps to make it through the holidays.

Download the 25-minute special, "A Holiday Survival Kit . . . for A Woman After God's Own Heart from our ftp site (go to "Specials ...

"It's hard to beat a person who never gives up."  - Babe Ruth

This is precisely the life story of a new-born baby who refused to give up.  Not only did Melissa Ohden survive an attempt to end her life through a saline abortion . . . today she is a wife, mother, social worker and pro-life speaker. 

This year, on Sanctity of Life Sunday 2011 (January 23), share with your listeners both a miraculous abortion survival story as well as a moving account of how Melissa was able forgive those who intended to end her life!  Hear her amazing testimony as interviewed ...

"For God so love the world .  .  . ", John 3:16 - a familiar verse to believers, but never has the verse impacted me more than right now as Anne Graham Lotz confirms plans to hold an event in Uganda next Fall . . . and, as my daughter and I prepare to leave for Kenya in a week!  

Anne Graham Lotz and her ministry team have accepted an invitation from church leaders to hold a week of ministry in Kampala, Uganda next November.  The capstone of the week of ministry will be a daylong day of Bible teaching and Bible study training for thousands of ...

I've always wanted to go to Israel ...to walk where Jesus walked.  Maybe even travel around Asia minor- visit Ephesus where Timothy pastored the church.

I don't know if that will ever happen, but I take comfort and delight in the fact that I can read the same words Timothy read, and be ministered to them in much the same way he was.

Not only can I read the same words he read, I can sing the same songs that he may have sung.  The Odes of Solomon. They are the earliest Christian Hymns we've ever found ...

Angels!  They're everywhere, especially this time of year.  From tree decorations to angel food cake, from guardian angels to cherubs on a shelf-we're a culture fascinated by angels.

But what and who are these mysterious beings?  And what is their role in God's plan as "ministering spirits?" That's exactly the focus of Jim Garlow's Christmas 2010 radio special "Angels-Messengers of God."

"The myths need to be discarded.  We need to hold to what Scripture actually does tell us and not presume beyond that," Jim explains.

With Christmas just around the corner, we wanted to make ...