My dad, Raymond A. DeVries, was born on May 14, 1932. He went home to heaven on October 26, 1982. He was 50 years old when he died. I was 17 – a senior in high school.
There’s a shift in focus for church planters who are utilizing missional principles to start churches. Rather than starting services to make disciples, they are making disciples and then starting churches.
Recently I spent a morning alone with God in prayer at St Martin’s University Abbey in Lacey, Washington. I
Planting a church doesn’t start with launching worship services in a community. It starts with incarnating the gospel where you live.
We are asking people to go the day, part of the day or even just a few minutes, barefoot, to experience a life without shoes firsthand, and to help spread awareness of the impact a simple pair of shoes can bring to a child’s life.
My wife and I serve as missionaries to the United States with OC International. We are committed to reaching our nation and the nations among us. We’re part of a great team here in the Northwest that is committed to prayerful dependence on Jesus.
Jesus said, “Go therefore and make disciples ” (Mt 28:19-20)
A sixteen-year-old boy is taken captive by raiders and sold into slavery. Desperate with loneliness, hunger and cold, he cries out for deliverance and God answers. He goes on to pioneer one of the greatest missionary movements the world has ever seen…
Momentum is a powerful force. With momentum, you can advance forward rapidly. Without it, forward motion will eventually stall.
I turned 45 years old on Monday (March 8, 2010) and with it came the discovery that I am starting the second half of my life.
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