God's design for healing emotional wounds By Steve Prokopchak When we suffer a deep physical wound, we are rushed off to the emergency room to have that wound receive necessary and immediate attention. It gets cleaned, anesthetized, and sewn up from the inside out so the healing process can begin. We are administered antibiotics [...]
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 [...]
Church Planting in India Equips for Canada By Philip Omondi Destiny Center started in 2000 when I and some like-minded university students sensed God calling us to start a multi-cultural church. We were on fire for Jesus, but we had no mentorship or spiritual covering. I was a young, unmarried student at the time—a [...]
Church planting in Virginia, USA By Bobby Alger Church plants begin by either default or by design. Ours was a little of both. Wanda and I had grown up in the same denomination. Before we met and married, she had helped plant a church that grew to 1,500 in attendance and spread into four [...]
In the beginning, getting to know neighbors in Nairobi was not easy By Ibrahim and Diane Omondi When we held our first cell group in our home, we never envisioned that DOVE Africa would grow to over 200 congregations that reach into Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique and Tanzania. By God’s [...]
It’s astonishing that God called me to plant a church. I didn’t even attend church until I was thirty years old! By Wallace and Linda Mitchell It’s astonishing that God called me to plant a church. I was not raised in a Christian home. In fact, I didn’t even attend church until I was [...]
Church planting in Lebanon, Schuylkill and Berks counties, Pennsylvania, USA By Ron Myer Bonnie and I attended a DOVE church for the first time in August 1982. From the moment we walked through the doors and experienced the worship and ministry of the Word, we were convinced that the Lord was calling us to [...]
By Larry Kreider Mario Murillo exhorted, “To do anything below what you were created to do will bore you.” We were created by God to be ministers. Apart from this, we lack a sense of fulfillment and dignity. Years ago, my journalist friend, turned pastor, from Nairobi, Kenya knew his people were bored. Ibrahim, [...]
By Larry Kreider Imagine a Christian more mature than yourself giving you a hug and saying, “I see God’s potential in you. I want to stand with you and see God work in your life.” After the initial shock wore off, how would you react? By giving a hug back as your heart leaps with [...]
The lessons learned from these mistakes resonate in the hearts of pastors and leaders. By Larry Kreider One Saturday morning my daughter asked me to make her pancakes for breakfast. Knowing I am not a cook, I pleaded with her, “Please, Leticia, couldn’t you just eat cereal today?” She persisted, so I gave pancakes [...]
