Conversation after conversation, prayer after prayer, is slowly removing one rock after another by Marisa “How many people have you brought to the Lord?” The question came from a middle school boy sitting a few rows back next to his mother. It was at an information night my husband and I were having at [...]
Of the 100 Bible characters we know significant details about, only one-third finished well. By Keith Yoder We all look forward to hearing the affirmation, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”1 What does it take to finish well? We are hearing more instances of the character failures of leaders, but the dynamic tension between [...]
“Do so much good that the unbelievers will want to meet our King” (1 Peter 2:12) By Steve and Shelly Moore Since 2015, we longed to birth a ministry center in our capital city of Bridgetown, Barbados. When we asked God how to start, the answer was, “Just do ordinary things.” These ordinary things included [...]
Do we recognize Jesus when He speaks with us? By Doug Lehman “Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life” (Proverbs 13:12). First steps. They are a milestone new parents celebrate with amazement, joy, calls to the grandparents, social media posts, many videos. . . we could go [...]
Download the handbook here Introduction to the DOVE International Leadership Handbook After many years of serving the DOVE International family, a dedicated group began to record some important procedures that were found to be helpful to DOVE leaders throughout the world. These guidelines are the outgrowth of years of learning through mistakes and experience, even [...]
If you have felt a challenge to the core of your identity, God wants to encourage you. By Cheree Shenk Right before breakthrough, the pressure to “tap out” is high, and it can feel so personal and intense. Often, the most intense challenges during this season center around identity and calling. If you have felt [...]
Given by Dale Mast at the International Leadership Conference on May 1, 2021 Prophecy for DOVE International and Leaders What I want to do is prophesy over the DOVE network and literally what God wants to do. And I just was waiting on the Lord and I was asking him to show me a couple [...]
Along with evangelism and discipleship, prayer is an essential element of the mandate God has given By Lynn Ironside “So often our prayers and other initiatives taken in blind obedience to the Spirit seem as pointless as shooting paper aeroplanes into the sky—but the eyes of faith know that it is no coincidence that that [...]
How can we reach the people from within their culture rather than reaching out from our own? By Hillary Vargas In a small Moldovan town, there is a church that I attended for a few months. The pastor’s wife was the worship director. The songs she chose were usually songs that I was familiar with, [...]
Everywhere we went the local people asked us to pray for them, especially for healing. By Dave Smith I was 18. I had just left everything I’d known and left my home to do a Discipleship Training School with the international organization Youth With A Mission. As part of the school we had a two-month-long [...]
