Dear Friends, Back in October we asked prayers for a really special event. Seven of the children of the single mom’s from the Joana Bezerra community we serve were heading to their First Time at Camp. Thank you SO much for your prayers! It was a mountaintop experience for the children! Rauane, Jennyfer, Maria Vitória, […]
Archive | Victories
Victories: The Good News the Lord has revealed to us among the needy and those in Satan’s grasp.
When Old Men Dream Dreams
I’ve never been quite sure what to do with dreams. But I had a very striking one in early 2023. The more I pondered and prayed about it I became persuaded it was something I needed to act on. It was a dream of training leaders in Portugal! I experienced my first International Leadership Institute […]
The Black Sheep
There are lost sheep who don’t want to be found. There are lost sheep who seem hell-bent on getting to, well that place. There are sheep who lost their way, believed the deceiver’s lies, and there was no one close enough they could trust to persuade them otherwise. Some fell in with the wrong crowd. […]
How far?
“For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.” – Luke 19:10 There isn’t a more focused summation of Jesus’ purpose, and that which should be the goal of his disciples: seeking and saving the lost. We can’t save, Jesus does that, but we can seek and lead others to him. […]
Leadership Training During a Pandemic
To paraphrase Nathanael’s famous question in John 1:46, “can anything good come out of a pandemic”? By God’s power and grace, YES! The International Leadership Institute is a non-denominational ministry that hosts conferences in which leaders are encouraged to rediscover and renew eight core Christian values in their personal lives and ministry: Intimacy with God, […]