Dear ITEM Friend and Prayer Partner, If you have been around a discipleship ministry, you have probably been introduced to this acronym: FAT…. F(aithful) A(vailable) T(eachable) These are the qualities you look for in someone you will disciple. These qualities are not any more true of any group any more than it is true of […]
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Dear ITEM Partner, What day is it? Where am I? Where am I going next? Is this the Twilight Zone? (I know, that last question dates me!) haha! But that is a little the way I feel but in reality, things are right on track and at each stop, God’s mission is being accomplished! I
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Dear ITEM Partner, It’s been a tough couple of days for me. That’s why you haven’t heard from me. I arrived in Cameroon on Friday. There was no wifi where I am staying and there was some delay about how to get me online. So, I had no internet Friday once I left Kenya. We
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Prenote: I did not have internet until Saturday afternoon after arriving on Friday. This is a day late. Dear ITEM Partner, I am settled in Cameroon but have not worked out an internet connection yet. I expect to be set up Saturday morning with a Data Sim Card that I can install in a “wifi
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Dear ITEM Partner, Today, Thurs Feb 6, was the final day of rest before hitting the road (or should I say “the air”?). On Friday I start a stretch of 14 days and 11 flights in those 14 days. Friday morning, I will take the 4hr30min flight to Yaounde, the capital city of Cameroon to
A DAY OFF AND TWO UNPLANNED MEETINGS Read More »
After arriving in Kenya late Tuesday, I had a prearranged meeting today with three pastors from the SW coast of Kenya, near Mombasa. WHY MOMBASA IS STRATEGIC Mombasa is a place Kenyans go on vacation. It is a beach city. But it is also a strategic city, spiritually. In Kenya, those identifying themselves as Protestant
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Dear ITEM Partner, Jim and Amber Glasscock are ITEM’s first sent-missionaries. They are not stationed in Busia, Uganda which is on the border with Kenya. Jim sends this report on his first official ministry opportunity. “ICOMP” is short for the “ITEM Conference on Ministry and Preaching” which defines a healthy, biblical church from Ephesians 4:11-14,
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This article by Dr. Steve Van Horn first appeared in the January-February 2006 issue of Voice Magazine An Independent Church Journal. After serving 17 years as a pastor in Oregon, with a certain amount of fear and trembling I took my first trip to Africa in January of 1998 to teach a course at the
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Dear Friends and Family, I am leaving tonight, Saturday, for home. My scheduled touchdown in Portland is 11:17am Sunday. I thought I would send a final report with some final thoughts. The big picture right now is that we are slowing down just a bit to evaluate where we are in order to determine exact
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Today, I finished up the planned ministry part of my trip, meeting with the ITEM team from Madagascar. The first item of ITEM business was to debrief the meeting we had yesterday with Baptist and other evangelical leaders from around Madagascar.
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