Thanks to those of you who prayed for me over the weekend. I made a trip to Little Stukeley at the request of the interim pastor at our IBC church there, Grace Fellowship. The church is struggling, and he asked me to come and encourage the members. It was a real honor to be there […]
I returned yesterday for a church planting summit in Tallinn, Estonia, which I touched on in a post yesterday on Facebook when I first got home. Unlike a traditional conference, a summit involves getting leaders together to search out solutions together, versus simply bringing in experts to teach at a conference. As I lead a […]
Converge Worldwide is a Baptist conference based in the United States. They are known for their tremendous success planting churches and have been assisting other groups of churches in the US and abroad in church planting. In fact, they are the organization that is helping the International Baptist Convention to gear up its church planting […]
The International Baptist Convention, of which North Sea Baptist Church is a member, has recently been ramping up its church planting efforts. Part of their strategy is the formation of LEAD Teams, and I am the captain of the one based in and around Scandinavia. In other words, I have a group of pastors currently […]
We had a great conference in Uganda! We had 400 pastors sign up, though only 340 total made it to the conference due to some bad weather. Regardless, this was a fantastic time of training and equipping. The north of Uganda was devastated by rebels for over twenty years, and only in the last decade […]
Fresch Ministries International has been requested to sponsor leadership training for local pastors in Lira, Uganda. Rev. James Ekwang is the senior pastor of Truth Fountain Cathedral in Lira, and a member of Pastor David’s cohort in the Global Leadership masters degree program through Fuller Seminary. He has asked if FMI could sponsor a three-day […]
Two hundred pastors in northwest Myanmar (formerly Burma) enjoyed a week-long pastors’ conference from March 28 through April 6, 2011. Fresch Ministries guaranteed support for the conference last November, thereby allowing the Tedim Baptist Convention to move forward with planning the conference. In September 2010, Rev. Dr. Simon P. K. En, senior pastor of Tedim Baptist […]