Novel Outreach Brings New Faces Note from Ron Myer: When I met with the leadership team of Perry Hall Family Worship Center, we asked ourselves the question, “How does the individual in the third floor condo find out about our church family and even more importantly, Jesus Christ?” Out of the dialog around that question, [...]
The DOVE International story book excerptby Larry and LaVerne KreiderDuring the mid-1970s, we took new believers to local churches in our community on Sunday evenings. These youth had come to faith in Christ through a youth ministry called Lost But Found that a group of us started in northern Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. We wanted to [...]
The Holy Spirit seemed to turn on a light bulb in our minds By Rose and Charles Wanyama In March 2020, everything we were used to doing in life came to a screeching halt: pastoring a church, managing a school, planting churches, and visiting those churches. We could do none of them. Even before the [...]
They came to us requesting that we start a church for them By Kim Zimmerman Our micro church, Shift, dates back to a time when I was discipling three young women nearly fifteen years ago. They wanted to learn more about how to read and study God’s Word. As we met together for Bible study [...]
We are intentional about connecting with non-believers and doing one-on-one discipleship. By Tim and Angie Wenger When we were in our early twenties, we were members of a church that was transitioning into a cell church. We found great fulfillment and success in developing the youth ministry totally around cell groups. Yet I (Tim) realized [...]
Are you ready to open the gates of God’s favor? By Doug Lehman Psalm 5:12 - For it is You who blesses the righteous man, O Lord, You surround him with favor as with a shield. Several years ago, while preparing to travel to south central Asia, I distinctly remember one of our prayer warriors [...]
The dream for a church and community transformation in Haiti by Nelson Martin Schiler Darelus lived in La Coline, a primitive Haitian mountain village. His parents assisted him to move to Mountrouis, a much larger commercial coastal town, to enroll in his last two years of high school. While there, he joined Temple of the [...]
There are so many testimonies; we cannot begin to tell them all. By Phil and Michele Edwards For many years, well-wishers have been taking food packages, money, furnishings, and clothing to a largely uneducated and unskilled community in the Clifton Hall, St. John community. They gladly accept it all—but nothing changes. They wake up day [...]
A thread found in every story is that the church planter took a step of faith By Larry Kreider There are many articles on this website of churches being planted worldwide by ordinary people trusting in an extraordinary God. These are only a few of the stories from the DOVE family that could be told [...]
Starting a new church was not even on my radar By Larry and LaVerne Kreider Let me share the story of the very first DOVE church plant, which became the seed for many others around the world. When I was in my mid-twenties, starting a new church was not even on my radar. Had you told [...]
