Category: Pandemic

The Giving Poor

November 3, 2020.Reading time 4 minutes.

For about five years of his ministry (52-57 AD), the Apostle Paul was collecting money from believers in Greece and Asia Minor for “the poor among the Lord’s people in Jerusalem” (Romans 15:26). The Hebrew Christian recipients were suffering because of a famine that had begun the previous decade (see Acts 11:27-30), and also because […]

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Doing the Most Good May Require Early Giving

October 19, 2020.Reading time 3 minutes.

Just as there has been nothing normal about 2020 so far, we should anticipate more of the same for the next few months. And this is particularly true for those of you who plan your major giving for the month of December. With election uncertainty, the CARES Act, social unrest, and immediate need in underdeveloped […]

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Prayers Needed – AIBC Pastors Hit By COVID-19

October 18, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

At this time last year, I was travelling with some amazing colleagues all over Costa Rica holding pastoral training meetings with the 130+ pastors of the Asociación de Iglesias Bíblicas Costarricenses (AIBC). Our primary mission was to collect data about pastoral education that I needed for my doctoral dissertation. It was the road trip of […]

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