"Thank you. This was helpful… going thru some hard times now and I really needed to think through some of these things…" Posted about about 8 years ago

"Thank you. This was helpful… going thru some hard times now and I really needed to think through some of these things…""That was the best single-hour wellness talk I've heard in years."That's just a couple of the things participants on this morning's webinar said in our chat towards the end of our call!  I was super-grateful to spend time with 36 people from 8 countries talking about how we ca...

I was full of fear and doubt over our transition to working full time with Contagious Disciple Making Posted about about 8 years ago

You may not know this, but one year ago this week I was full of fear and doubt over our transition to working full time with Contagious Disciple Making. The first few months of fund-raising were behind us and things were going much slower than expected. To make ends meet, we had to take another round of serious cuts to the budget. Up to this point, I had done as much as I could to spare the kid...

Story - Finding Spiritual People in Coffee Shops Posted about about 8 years ago

A couple of weeks ago, I met with a fellow disciple-maker - one I had trained a while back - to get an update on how things were going.  We met in a local coffee shop in the Portland area, one that I hadn't visited before.  He showed me a diagram of first and second generation groups he had started in another country.  Our conversations were extremely encouraging.That morning, while I was readi...

Story - 'Discovery At OSU' Posted about about 8 years ago

A month ago, I got a call from a recently-graduated OSU student."Hi Paul!""Hi Sarah!""Did you get my card?""Yep!""So you know why I'm calling?""Yep!""So...can we schedule a time to meet and talk about supporting me next year while I work with Chi Alpha?""Let's do it!"A few weeks later, we settled into one of the coffee shops just off campus.  I knew Sarah pretty well, but never really heard her...

Story - Will Kids Read The Bible Like This? Posted about about 8 years ago

Like this email I received a week or so ago from someone that attended my last online training:"Our local YFC keeps getting younger. To engage students, they do breakfasts at local middle schools. My wife is involved with the breakfasts, which includes a 10-15 minute Bible story. Also, as a point of contact with students, she's "the lunch lady" one day a week (for a school of 850+ 5th-8th gra...

Story - 'Yoga in The Park' Posted about about 8 years ago

We train disciple-makers to think outside of the box and look for unique opportunities to meet people who don't know Jesus.  Here is an update from one of our partners in Oklahoma:“Prayed for a guy at yoga tonight who is going in for surgery tomorrow. Pray that he would experience full healing tonight and would encounter Jesus  ! We had a series of spiritual conversations this evening. Yoga is ...