First Day of School in Bulgaria

Bulgarian Churches Protest against new Child Protection Policy

Several of our students who graduated from our chaplaincy program in Bulgaria about a decade ago, are among the lead organizers of a massive international wave of protests against a new package of child protection laws similar to Norway’s Barnevernet concept. The start is given in Sofia, Capital city of Bulgaria, where people are very unhappy about a new ideological concept of child protection policy which infringes upon the rights of the parents and the integrity of natural family. The protest will be organized through the whole month of September 2019 in many cities of Bulgaria and in other cities ...

Toward a Pentecostal Strategy for the City

Toward a Pentecostal Strategy for the City One of the questions that seems to come up in this course discussion is how to change the world around us with a more positive and effective approach toward using the Gospel of Salvation. In this particular module, the difficulty addressed is ethnocentricity. The particularity of our search then arrives at the more detailed question, how can we change the culture (respectively subcultures) of our church congregations? This is a drastic move from a closed circle toward an outreach community that many congregations are unable to accomplish. How do we then empower such congregations ...

REVIVAL MUST GO ON…

In 2020, we will be celebrating 30 years in ministry. Twenty of them alone were spent in America where we have held some 3,000 services across 25+ different states. In these three decades, I have seen genuine revival with the Glory of God moving in only twice. The first time was in 1990, right after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Bulgaria, when our youth group of a dozen students grew up to 300 during the spring semester alone. One of those nights, 26 young people literally walked through the door of the small hall we were renting, gave their ...

30 Days of Prayer and Fasting in 2019

Week 1 September 1, 2006 – Restoration of the Backslidden September 2, 2006 – Church Leadership: Bulgarian Pastors and Ministers Week 2 September 3, 2006 – National Revival in Bulgaria September 4, 2006 – Spiritual and Physical Harvests September 5, 2006 – Restoration of Protestant Evangelical Heritage September 6, 2006 – Unification of the Bulgarian Nation and the Bulgarian Church (In observance of Unification Day in Bulgaria) September 7, 2006 – Renewal of Family Ties September 8, 2006 – Child Protection September 9, 2006 – Mission Work Week 3 September 10, 2006 – The Hopeless (In observance of World Suicide Prevention Day) September 11, 2006 – Against Fear (In observance of Patriot Day ...

The world is my parish

New Wesley Room at Bristol Here is a bit more about the building from the Methodist Heritage Organization: George Whitefield invited John Wesley to preach outdoors for the first time to the miners of Bristol in 1739. Within a few weeks’ work started on building the New Room as a meeting place for two of the religious societies in the city, thus creating the world’s first Methodist building. The current building dates from 1748 when the New Room was doubled in size. Its lower floor became known as John Wesley’s Chapel. It is still in regular use for worship as well as ...

The ORIGINAL Barney Creek Stones of Spurling

Even though not intending to form a new church or denomination, their rejection of Landmarkist values placed them in conflict with traditional churches in that area. Within a short period of time it became clear that they would not be allowed to remain as members of their churches. On August 19, 1886, after being barred from his local Baptist church, he and eight others organized the Christian Union at the Barney Creek Meeting House in Monroe County, Tennessee. They agreed to free themselves from man-made creeds and unite upon the principles of the New Testament. Between 1889 and 1895, Spurling ...