I just got back from a short visit with our Every Nation churches and campus ministries in China. Every time I visit the Christians there I’m blown away by their sincere faith and sense of sacrifice. If you want to get rid of any sense of...
I just came from a lunch where a few of our senior leaders honored Pastor Luther Mancao. After decades of service in the Philippines, he’s now going to help our Every Nation churches in the Middle East. Pastor Luther is many things: The...
We’re wrapping up the conference here in Japan and it’s been a great time. Always fun to connect with passionate believers from other nations. We’ve been freezing at night though so last Wednesday, I turned the heater up and we...
Two weeks ago, I blogged about some of the people I get to work with. One of the best things about them was how we could be friends while working together. When it’s working well, it’s perfect. You have fun at work and even more fun...
I don’t want to have the biggest group. It’s not my goal to grow our campus ministry at the expense of all other campus ministries. I don’t want to say that I’m a pastor at the biggest church. First of all...
I love watching cooking shows. The modern version are those cooking POV videos on Facebook. But it’s nothing like when you hear the sound of the sizzling garlic, or crackling of freshly baked bread, or the chef narrating his every action. The...
Of everyone in this series, this might have been the biggest challenge. I had a short history with everyone else in the list – knew Carlos since childhood, studied in the US with Ryan, friends with Dan for more than fifteen years. But CJ and I...
This is the second blog in a series of coworkers who have since become like brothers in ministry. You can read the introduction here and the first entry here. Did you ever think you knew someone only to really get to know them and realize you had a...
This is the first blog in a series of coworkers who have since become like brothers in ministry. You can read the introduction here. Carlos Antonio was the communications director for Every Nation Philippines. Since I serve in the campus ministry...
At Every Nation, we work with a combination of ministry staff (pastors and campus missionaries) and administrative staff (employed professionals). While the administrative staff are there to support the mission that’s expressed and carried out...