God Always Provides!
By Roger Cox When you can participate in a vision that was birthed in the heart of God, you will always see God’s divine provision. As it says in Philippians…
God Changes the Narrative
By Michael Lumbard You know what it is like: before a movie is even partway over, you already understand the plot and have predicted the conclusion. But then it happens….
INSTE in Ukraine
By Tammy Swailes Having served more than twenty years living in Ukraine and working with INSTE in the churches, I’ve gotten to know many of the several thousand INSTE students….
Why I Teach Church Planting Teams
By Nick Mahabir Did you know that nowhere in the Bible are we commanded to “plant churches”? Then why do we do it? New congregations are the fruit of evangelism!…
The Day I Learned to Read Scripture through African Eyes
By Michael Lumbard A Google maps search could not help me find the church I was standing in or even the road it was on. All I knew was that…
Let’s Not Go Empty-handed!
By Travis Hunsaker This past November we spent some time visiting family in Iowa. The reason for our visit was not the same reason many of you gathered with family, for Thanksgiving. We returned to Iowa due to the passing of my grandfather, Clyde “Neil” Hunsaker, on November…
Liberia’s First Global Church Planters Academy!
By Kofi Gyansah I count myself privileged to be chosen by God for the work of ministry. In 2016, I graduated from Open Bible’s first-ever Global Church Planters Academy in…
The Day Jesus Went to the City Dump
By Michael Lumbard “We do ministry at the city dump. Do you want to go and see?” With those words my world changed. My wife, Pamela, and I are the…
Providing a Safe Place
By Fayth McConnell “We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.” Oswald J. Smith, pastor, author, and missionary statesman Many of the boys my husband Bill…
Our Journey from Pastor to Missionary and Back
By Mike Juntunen After thirty years of pastoring in the U.S., God called us to be missionaries to Hungary and Romania, where we were introduced to new cultures that changed the…