In April I attend the Global Church for a Global World (www.gcgw.org) Conference in Hong Kong. This conference was the first attempt to bring all evangelical international churches together in one place. I attended along with the men’s ministry leader from my church, Kurt Gilje. MICN (Missional International Church Network), CIF (China International Fellowships) and […]
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Meet the FMI Team. Check back later for pictures, bios, and updates on the work in each country.
One of the greatest gifts we can give as Christians is the Word of God. Many of us have multiple copies of the Bible in our homes, on our phones, and in our tablets, so it is hard for us to imagine what life would be like without our own copy of the Scriptures. Yet many people in northern Uganda still do not have their own Bible. Sometimes the only copy in the village is kept at the church, and church members must come to the church to read it. In 2013 we distributed 1400 Bibles; this year we sent 1,008. This is wonderful progress, yet so many more Bibles are still needed.
In early October I had the opportunity to meet with the leadership team of the Missional International Church Network (MICN) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. MICN (www.micn.org) is a network of multicultural, multinational churches in locations all over the globe. MICN seeks to support, encourage, and resource these churches. They are a great group of people doing important international ministry, and they invited me to come to their annual leadership meeting, so we could all get to know each other better and see how the Lord might lead us to work together in the future.
Philemon Brighton Philemon Brighton is a thought-provoking author, speaker, and retreat leader with more than 10 years of leadership, church consulting, outreach, and teaching experience. He serves as a pastor of a local church in Morogoro, Tanzania, and as the Tanzania national coordinator for Fresch Ministries International. Philemon graduated from Global Bible University and attended […]
Bjornar Tjonn Bjornar got to know the Lord at a very early age while growing up in a Christian home in Norway. His parents were very active in a Lutheran church, and Bjornar’s faith grew through revival-meetings and through his years at a private Christian high school. While attending university in Louisiana, Bjornar started attending […]
Scott B. Marler Scott trusted in Christ at the age of 19 and was baptized about 2 years later while attending college. He served as a Deacon in the Baptist church in Houston, Texas, in the early 1980s, and as Elder in 4 other churches in Louisiana and Texas over the next 20 years. Scott […]
Gary W. Paukert Gary grew up attending First Presbyterian Church of Boulder, Colorado, where he submitted his life to Christ at the age of 12. In 1980 he graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, a Christian college affiliated with the Presbyterian denomination. Since then he has attended and/or been a member of many different […]
David C. Fresch – “DC” DC accepted the Lord at the age of 13 and submitted to believer’s baptism in early adulthood. He was ordained a deacon at North Sea Baptist Church in Stavanger, Norway, during a five-year assignment there and has served as a deacon in two other churches as well. He was later […]