EPC World Outreach’s Response to COVID-19 | March 2020
Dear friends, As WWII drew to a close, a young Russian soldier-mathematician was arrested and condemned to imprisonment and permanent exile for privately criticizing Stalin. Imprisoned in a Siberian labor camp, later suffering from cancer and given just weeks to live,...
The Great Commission in Old Testament Law | February 2020
Dear friends, Where do we find the Great Commission in the Bible? Most of us probably think first of Matt 28:19, ‘Go and make disciples of all nations.’ Or maybe ‘You will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth’ (Acts...
A Missionary Conflict for Posterity | January 2020
Dear friends, But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned…” (Gal 2:11) When Simon Peter journeyed to Antioch, he must have discovered a reality different from his ministry context in Jerusalem and Judea. The leadership...
Fueled by Wonder | December 2019
Dear friends, The story of Jesus' life on earth begins and ends with people looking up into the sky. "Behold there came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying, 'Where is He that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the East and are come to...
What Are You Doing This Summer? | EPCWO Mission Trips
EPC World Outreach is hosting three mission trips this summer for EPC members that want to learn how to love their Muslim neighbors and be the fragrance of Jesus. Our hope is that these experiences will equip participants to imitate thoughtful outreach among neighbors...
Look to The Rock from Which You Were Hewn | October 2019
Dear friends, In one of the darkest days of the people of Israel, the Lord spoke through Isaiah… “Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug. Look to Abraham...
GROW-ing the Gospel | September 2019
Dear friends, Amina* was desperate, alone, and vulnerable. Sharing a tiny Beirut apartment with several other families and separated from a husband searching for work in Turkey, she needed a safe place to leave her child while she looked for work. Somehow, she found...
A Privileged Opportunity | August 2019
Dear friends, S* has become one of my closest friends, a man who inspires me with his example of living missionally. I first met S and A, his wife, in August 2015, while preaching at Faith Church. I noticed this South Asian family enter the back of the sanctuary and...
Fruitful Work in Kazakhstan | July 2019
Dear friends, Two EPC World Outreach church-planting teams began work in the former Soviet Union in the mid-1990s. One team planted Holy Trinity Church in southwestern Siberia. The other team planted a presbytery of churches in Kazakhstan – now known as the...
A Great Barrier to Evangelism | June 2019
Dear friends, During my first trip to India I taught a course on the five solas of the Reformation. The national leaders who organized the event had reserved the upper room of a Catholic charity for the day and filled it with plastic lawn chairs. As I arrived early, I...