World Missions & Evangelism, Inc.

I love the early fall of the year. The trees are becoming beautiful, but not yet bare. It is cooler, but the cold of winter has not come. Each fall, usually in October, my wife and I take a weekend to travel to the Chattanooga Tennessee area, where we went to college, met, and lived for a few months after our marriage, 28 years ago. This little weekend is a tradition that we have been keeping for nearly 15 years. Of course, my personal thing is to hit all the bookstores in the area that I know of! Last weekend was our annual pilgrimage. I found a great book called "Thirty Years That Changed The World" by Michael Green, scholar from Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. The book is a study of the book of Acts and rather than being a commentary, it is a study of how the early church, from Pentecost till the burning of Rome (which Green puts as 33-64 AD), saw the new faith, which we call Christianity in our day, reached almost the whole known world. The book examines early church methods and c

For many years I was a student of revival. It started in the late 1980's when I read a biography of George Whitfield, the great evangelist of the first Great Awakening in the early 1700's. After that, in the early 1990's, my home church experienced a distinct move of God and we called that "revival" and it definitely sent me back to my study to understand and try to experience a real revival. When I was doing a seminary degree approximately 10 years ago, I was privileged to take a class on Revival, and I think it was my favorite class in the whole program. Our text books were the writings of key revival leaders such as Jonathan Edwards, Charles Finney , and Frank Bartleman (1st Great Awakening, 2 nd Great Awakening, Azusa Street Revival). There is a close relationship between Revival and Mission. Both are concerned with the advance of the Kingdom of God. Both can and do result in people coming to faith in Christ and lives being transformed, and even societal t

We are excited to announce that you can now donate online to the Honduras Church Planting Movement. Just use the paypal button that is on the blogspot page and you can securely give to help the work that is multiplying in Honduras or other ministries of World Missions and Evangelism. Several of WME's supporters have been asking for the opportunity to give online and we are excited to have this opportunity available. Just navigate to WME's blog at www.wmeinc.blogspot.com and click on the Donate button. You can give to the ministry this way whether you personally have a Paypal account or not. Just follow the directions on the donation page that comes up. Thanks to all of our faithful supporters. Through your faithful giving the gospel is now going into over 200 locations in Honduras and 61 churches have been planted....all in the last 3 years. This is good ground in which to sow to see a harvest for the Kingdom of God. Blessings to you!