Look for the Letter Executive Director Steve Lawson During our week of Executive Council meetings, the superintendents, President Gallagher and I shared concerns about how our churches and our pastors were handling the pandemic and the differences of opinions about what to do to protect and serve one another. Many of our pastors have been […]
Rockland Community Church Partners in Clothing Donation RHODE ISLAND – Rockland Community Church was approached by a representative of St. Pauly Textile about possibility of hosting a shed on our property. St. Pauly is a for-profit company that distributes used clothing to organizations across the world to meet their clothing needs. We were uncertain at first, […]
Hadzabe Struggle, Faith Increased TANZANIA – On August 5, our churches in Tanzania reported that a leader of the Hadzabe named Ntantaei was killed on a hunting trip by a large beast. Ntantaei was a young man with a wife and four children. The Hadzabe were grief-stricken and wondered what God had to do with […]
The Incarnation: John 1:1-14 Scripture Study We invite you to use these scripture studies for personal enrichment, group study or discipleship. Context Verses 1–14 serve as the prologue to John’s gospel and introduce many of the major themes John will address, most prominently that Jesus is the promised Messiah and the Son of God. This […]
Remembering Missionary to Japan Rev. Floyd Warren Powers October 8, 1927 – September 16, 2021 Floyd was born in Montpelier, Vermont and was the youngest of three children. He graduated from Biddeford, Maine High School, then attended Berkshire Christian College (NEST). Later he attended the department of Missionary Medicine at Shelton College and eventually Kobe […]
Couple Moved by Prayer, Join Church New members: (left to right) Mwenyehara, Loshani, Cecelia Kaitano MOZAMBIQUE – In early September, husband and wife Mwenyehara and Loshani went to a village meeting called by the chief. Unlike many other villages that have continued with traditional religions, this chief had been influenced by the gospel, so before […]
Baptism Produces Freedom over Demonic Forces Hakata Agape House By Rowena Cabrizos JAPAN – Last August 14, we had one water baptism. She once was part of Kitakyushu Agape House and was moved to Hakata Agape House during the pandemic. Her water baptism was long overdue as we were supposed to baptize her after my […]
Executive Council Looks to The Future ACGC Executive Council met from Thursday through Saturday last week and our meetings went well. We welcomed our two new council members, Johnson Raju and Deborah Reed, along with all but two council members to Shiloh AC Church. ACGC staff gave detailed reports to the council since we have […]
The 16th Annual Fellowship Church Golf Challenge Join us for the 16th annual Fellowship Church Golf Challenge Friday, October 1, at 12:45 p.m. at Brushy Mountain Golf Club in Taylorsville, N.C. Last year, 68 golfers (one of our largest fields ever!) teed it up for this elite competition and 24 came away with winners’ trophies (awarded […]
Freeman Barton Freeman Earl Barton, 81, of North Springfield, Vermont passed away August 31 at Vernon Green Nursing Home, after more than two decades of persevering through the struggles of Parkinson’s Disease. Dr. Barton was a professor, librarian, and lifelong theologian and author, a father of two natural and two adopted children, husband of 61 […]