Articles for tag: Team Expansion

March 7, 2026

Wes Woodell

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend Shake the Nations!

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend: Shake the Nations!

Team Expansion Prayer Weekend: Shake the Nations! is a focused, in-person weekend of prayer, worship, and Scripture-centered teaching designed to help believers grow deeper in prayer and engage God’s heart for the unreached. Held at Emerald Hills in Louisville, Kentucky, the event emphasizes practicing prayer together through guided prayer times, worship, biblical teaching, and interactive prayer experiences across the campus. Featured speaker John Franklin will lead teaching and workshops, with Ryan and Faith Stapleton leading worship and Ron Friesen guiding an interactive prayer experience.

May 24, 2023

Christian Standard

Maritime Christian College Sells Property, Relocates (Plus News Briefs)

At the start of May, the administrative offices of Maritime Christian College relocated to Sherwood Christian Church in Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. The move coincided with the sale of MCC’s building in Charlottetown, which mainly consisted of dorm rooms and apartments. MCC has switched to an online model. . . . Plus a survey and news briefs. . . .

March 1, 2023

Laura McKillip Wood

A Life of Cross-Cultural Relationships

A Life of Cross-Cultural Relationships

By Laura McKillip Wood  As a child in the 1950s and ’60s, Harry Douglass sat in the pew at Mountain View Church of Christ in Phoenix every Sunday morning and Sunday night. He loved church, and he loved listening to his pastor, Don Mitchel, passionately preach interesting sermons. What he really loved, though, was listening to visiting missionaries who stopped in for Sunday night services. They showed slides of the people they worked with and told stories about their lives in faraway places. They not only told of their work but of the need for more people to follow their

September 1, 2022

Laura McKillip Wood

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Unexpected Ministry Bears Fruit

By Laura McKillip Wood  Kevin and Renee Payton talked as they did their Christmas shopping. It was December 2002, and they were home on furlough from their ministry in Simferopol, the central city in Crimea, which was still part of Ukraine at the time. Kevin had been teaching theology at a college in Crimea for about four years, but they saw their work with these students ending, as former students who had gone on to seminary were returning to teach at the college. Maybe the need for American professors was waning. But what would they do? As they talked, they

February 23, 2022

Christian Standard

Ukraine: How Should We Respond?

Christian church ministries played a role in the growth of Christianity and churches in Ukraine starting in the 1990s, writes Doug Lucas of Team Expansion. Now, in light of this week's invasion by Russia, you might be asking, "What can I do?" I propose these key action steps. . . .

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