Missions News
ICOC Philippines Celebrates Good News of 2016
Dear brothers and sisters in the Lord,
With much humility and gratefulness in our hearts, we would like to share you good news from our family of churches in the Philippines. It is a summary of how God is continuously building, rebuilding and restoring his kingdom in our part of the world.
7 Reasons the Year of the Rooster is Your Time to Take the OYC
To mark the Chinese New Year, Disciples Today is publishing a series of articles written by our correspondent in China. For the previous articles in this series, see Part 1: Good News from China and Part 2: Are Christians In China Persecuted? Part 3: The Amazing Story of Christianity’s Arrival, Near-Death, and Revival in China, and Part 4: The Story of the International Churches of Christ in China.
Did you know that animal sounds expressed in Chinese are often different from their English equivalents? Bees go “weng weng” not “buzz,” dogs bark “wang wang” instead of “woof woof” and so on. With enthusiasm and warmth, we usher in the Year of the Rooster in China. In Chinese, the rooster crows, “Ō ō ō! 喔喔喔!”
Next to Christmas, the most celebrated holiday in the world is Chinese New Year. Chinese — not only in China but by the millions throughout Southeast Asia and the world — will mark this week as the start of the Year of the Rooster. Will this rooster's crowing be your wake up call to take the One Year Challenge this year?
The Story of the ICOC in China
To mark the Chinese New Year, Disciples Today is publishing a series of articles written by our correspondent in mainland China. For the previous articles in this series, see Part 1: Good News from China, Part 2: Are Christians In China Persecuted? and Part 3: The Amazing Story of Christianity’s Arrival, Near-Death, and Revival in China.
Scenes So Lovely: Zambia's 20th Anniversary Service
"The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed, which a man took and planted in his field. Though it is the smallest of all your seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that birds of the air come and perch in its branches" -- Matthew 13:31-32.
The Amazing Story of Christianity’s Arrival, Near-Death, and Revival in China
To mark the Chinese New Year, Disciples Today is publishing a series of articles written by our correspondent in China. For the previous articles in this series, see Part 1: Good News from China and Part 2: Are Christians In China Persecuted?
Although members of the International Churches of Christ would not agree with everything the people mentioned in the below article taught or practiced, we can appreciate their contributions to the spread of Christian faith, and their sacrifice for the mission.
Are Christians In China Persecuted?
Today is the first day of the Year of the Rooster, observed by over one billion Chinese people around the world. To mark the Chinese New Year, Disciples Today is publishing a series of articles written by our correspondent in mainland China, who is even now traveling throughout southern China, visiting disciples and churches over the new year holiday. See Part 1: Good News from China.
Happy Chinese New Year! Good News from China
What’s the world’s biggest annual television event, year after year? Hint: it’s not the Super Bowl!
Tonight, over 700 million people will gather in China with family around their TVs for the most watched annual entertainment program in history, the four-hour Chinese New Year Gala, broadcast by China Central Television. (By contrast, the Super Bowl is expected to draw about 120 million television viewers.)
This Week at the One Year Challenge
Meet the OYC Guys! In this week's newsletter we're sharing the first of a series of videos featuring four guys at an OYC site sharing about all kinds of topics—everything from money to love and lots more.
"Reach Every Beach": New Video on Caribbean Missions
There are 40 million souls who live in the Caribbean region, hungry for the saving power of God’s Word. As a unified effort, the Caribbean ICOC churches are forging together, more united than ever, committed to our goal to “Reach Every Beach,” to the glory of God.
God's Initiative in Tarija
God's work
“Now show me your glory.” – Exodus 33:18. These were the words of Moses asking God to show him his glory and he did see it. He had an amazing experience of what it is to have a deep relationship with God.
My wife Jessica and I had the privilege to visit a group of people who wanted to know more about God and his word at a city in the southern part of Bolivia called Tarija. This group had a family member who was a disciple in the La Paz church. Together with their friends, they were tired of religious behavior in their former charismatic church. They saw arrogance in their leadership even though some of them were part of their leadership team. They realized the way they were doing things was not pleasing God and had something wrong, it just didn’t make sense.