It Started with a Prayer Meeting Just before Jesus returned to heaven to sit at the right hand of the Father, he told his disciples to tarry in Jerusalem until they were endued with power from on high. Later in the upper room, 120 men and women were filled with the Holy Spirit to be […]
Pray bold prayers for kingdom work. Expect big answers What do you really believe about prayer? Do you pray like you truly believe God will move through your prayers? Do you pray like you believe the Great Commission will move forward when you get on your knees? Too often we think that prayer is nice […]
Fulfilling the Great Commission by Accelerating Bible Translation In 2015, a group of Zambian Christians attended a church service they will never forget. Their pastor was reading John 11 from a newly completed New Testament translation. It was the first time the church had heard the story of Lazarus in their heart language of Nsenga. […]
Man’s List or God’s List In Matthew 24:14 Jesus said “This gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” Most Christians understand that when Jesus said this, the word nations is not referring to countries or nation-states. Instead Jesus is […]
The harvest is plentiful Getting Unstuck January 4, 1974 – Up until then I was a typical seventeen year old without much room in my heart for God and certainly no use for the institutional church. I was drifting through my last year of high school. Life had been pretty much in neutral until I […]
Our second issue of coMISSION Magazine is out and should be hitting a number of mailboxes now. The coMISSION magazine is a biannual publication if Bethany International that seeks to help others see the need and hear the call of world missions. The great commission is not a task for a select few, but an […]
Students at BGU now receive an accredited education while they do missions work overseas. Today BGU announced that it was awarded accreditation through The Association for Biblical Higher Education. Partnered with BGU’s tuition-paid program, students who intend to serve on the mission field can now earn a college degree that maintains high educational standards, and […]
Okay, so the Lord has burdened my heart to write about this subject that is so close to my heart. For those of you just joining us, I did a missionary internship in Marseille, France last year, and I’m going to Belfast, Northern Ireland next year as a missionary. So clearly, God has given me […]
Bethany Global University (BGU) is now more than ever focused on preparing students to extend God’s kingdom to where it is not. As a strategy of Bethany International, we strive to see students transformed by the cross, empowered by the Holy Spirit, and prepared with intercultural educational experience so that they can lead, serve, and […]
Nearly 2,000 years have passed since Jesus said, “Go, therefore, and make disciples…” Over 200 years have passed since William Carey said, “Attempt great things for God; Expect great things from God” and set sail for India igniting the modern missionary movement. Significant progress has been made since that time in the reaching of all […]