At the heart of our mission is the value of “We Live to Leave a Spiritual Inheritance.” We deeply cherish our responsibility to the next generation, and it drives us to take concrete steps in support of their growth. This includes providing scholarships, facilitating impactful missions trips,...
All the members of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Jerusalem, with the head of the Mission presiding, participate each year in the procession (called the “Litania”) with the holy burial shroud of the Mother of God.. The rite of the Burial of the Mother of God at Gethsemane begins cust...
YouthWorks-Detroit also runs anUrban Encounterprogram. On these short-term mission trips, groups of high schoolers, collegiates, and adults have the opportunity to serve the elderly, youth, homeless, and homebound in the city. Serving in this way is not only an opportunity for them to bring...
To paraphrase Groucho Marx: I don't want to belong to any Church that will accept me as a member, so you can't. The Church does have some loyal friends though who have helped by passing on valuable information. Basically the Church just reaps what others have sown (a common practice am...
Robert Sparkman, a North Alabama Conference pastor, recently retired, who has made a handful of mission trips to Nigeria. “He has always fulfilled our partnership agreements and in doing so has helped his church.” But Sparkman added that he did not know the details of the current ...
When Barrett fanGiuliano Navarromet Saq in 2009 he was let on the secret and from this moment Giuliano became a man with a mission. He receivedpicturesof the acetate and finally, on the 15th of January 2011, he proudly announced atLate Night: ...
He spent a few years leading praise for junior high and high school ministries, considering God’s direction as he went on short-term mission trips to Kazakhstan, Nepal, and Kyrgyzstan. Over the course of 10 years as a middle and high school math teacher, swim and water polo coach, God ...
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servesomeone. The particular person doesn’t matter as much as the fact that we need someone to serve and they are available to us. I suppose the classic modern example of this would be American Christian short-term mission trips that are totally disconnected from any kind of long-term ...
they introduced the wordglocalas a hybrid of the global and local mission fields. Whileglocalwas a harmless fail, some of the leadership’s attempts at innovation created instability, like their frequent rebranding and restructuring of small groups. Fun fact: I’ve recently learned that, as a ...