
Emad Botros in Lebanon
Please pray for church leaders not to lose hope, and for the body of Christ to be effective and fruitful amid these crises.
read morePlease pray for church leaders not to lose hope, and for the body of Christ to be effective and fruitful amid these crises.
read moreFor November, we highlight three books to which Joshua Banda (LeaderStudies) contributed: Good News from Africa; Anthology of African Christianity; Human Sexuality and the Holy Spirit. In each collection, you’ll find articles about practical Christianity in Africa. Joshua’s chapters highlight wisdom from Pentecostalism.
read morePlease pray for God to have mercy on Lebanon and to relieve the suffering. Pray that these difficult circumstances would cause people to turn to God and see Him as the only source of hope.
read morePray for the Church to be a witness of Christ and His love in a context characterized by violence and hatred.
read moreIn my dissertation, I am focusing on Islam and the pre-Islamic beliefs of the Kazakhs, and how to preach the Bible faithfully in a context where religious and ethnic identities are equated.
read moreAlexander Belyaev (LeaderStudies) recently co-wrote an article on COVID and the apocalypse from a post-Soviet perspective. The article illuminates eschatologies that are especially important for Christians in post-Soviet nations during this pandemic.
read moreOur October book is Being and Becoming African as a Permanent Work in Progress: Inspiration from Chinua Achebe’s Proverbs, to which Tekle Belachew (LeaderStudies) from Ethiopia contributed a chapter. The book celebrates African proverbs and will help you understand African identity more deeply.
read moreMy hope is that this research could be my contribution to North Macedonia and the Balkans in reaching a new generation for Christ and helping them develop as committed, mission-minded followers of Christ.
read moreIn April 1994, one of the most violent episodes in modern history took place in Rwanda. In 100 days, over 800,000 people were massacred, many of them with machetes. Journalist Ana Pais reported, “Those who survived the genocide… agree that the hostile rhetoric used for years by the ruling ethnic group, the Hutus, against the …
read moreEvangelical Christianity in Russia is now going through interesting times. On the one hand, the state has adopted various ‘restrictive’ laws… On the other hand, there are hopeful changes in the field of theological education.
read moreTekle Belachew (LeaderStudies) recently co-authored an article on African environmentalism. He calls us to understand nature through African ideas of ubuntu and tabot, to regard nature as having inherent value.
read moreI would like to ask you to pray for the accreditation of our school’s Theology Program. We have a government license, and now we are working on getting accreditation.
read moreWe are implementing changes in many areas of the seminary. It is encouraging, but mostly highly stressful.
read moreCongratulations to Eva Wong (LeaderStudies), who’s now part of an Assemblies of God – Malaysia commission for developing a distinctively Malaysian theology.
read moreCongratulations to Luis Eduardo Ramirez, the new president of Biblical Seminary of Colombia (VSI). Please pray for God to equip him as he takes leadership of a seminary that ministers to many displaced and vulnerable people, as well as training Colombian pastors.
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