Opportunities to Connect | the Reach January 2025
Dear friends, Happy New Year! As we look to the year ahead, here are ways you and your congregations can connect with World Outreach in 2025. Take a Kairos Course Interested in learning more about God’s heart for the nations and how you can better live into the Great...
Emmanuel, God with Us | the Reach December 2024
Dear Friends, Carols, cookies, lights. Calendars with mystery surprises on the other side of 24 tiny doors, and the lighting of candles on the wreath. This season holds much celebration and tradition. My family and I love all of it. Advent and Christmas are our...
Well Done, Good and Faithful Servants | the Reach November 2024
Dear Friends, Joe and Austia Hickey, after serving with World Outreach for 11 years, have retired as of the end of October 2024. Their formal time of planting and watering seeds across the globe has come to an end, and their mission to share the Good News of Christ...
White Unto Harvest | the Reach October 2024
Dear Friends, Desperate to leave an abusive home living with her parents, Maya accepted a marriage proposal. She was indifferent to the marriage, but in her desperation, she took the first way out she could find. She was still young, but at 17, her life was already...
Whose Time is Your Time? | the Reach September 2024
Dear Friends, Life’s opportunities likely compete for your time. Family, neighbors, groups at church, volunteering, work, hobbies, travel. How do you determine what tasks or causes to accept? This has been a constant dilemma in adulthood for me. Especially how I use...
Serving the Least of These | the Reach August 2024
Dear Friends, Dan and Catherine B served as church planting field workers in Almaty, Kazakhstan for 18 years (1993-2011). During their tenure, they saw a network of churches planted in the area and, eventually, turned ministry leadership over to their national...
Meet Our Newly Commissioned Workers | the Reach July 2024
Dear Friends, This year at the 44th General Assembly and Gospel Priorities Summit, World Outreach had the joy and privilege of commissioning 15 Global Workers. The commissioning service at General Assembly is a sacred time for the denomination to come alongside those...
Doubting Thomas | the Reach June 2024
Dear Friends, "Now Thomas (also known as Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. So the other disciples told him, “We have seen the Lord!” But he said to them, “Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails...
Cultivating Kingdom Partnerships | the Reach May 2024
Dear Friends, The idea was to partner with a small African village to help build a church, to join in a mutual ministry of encouragement and prayer continents apart. But how does a small rural church of less than 100 members start the journey of making that happen? We...
Join a Mission Cohort! | the Reach April 2024
Dear Friends, Have you ever been curious if global, long-term missions is something God is calling you to but don’t know where to start? Every fall the EPC launches a Mission Cohort, a year-long program where college-age young adults meet over Zoom for interaction...