News and Updates from the School of Christ
Bangladesh Graduates Second School Among the hill Country Tribes
David Jacobson – SOC Director Daren Downs – SOC Director Daren Downs and myself just returned from graduating the second School of Christ class in Bangladesh among the tribe leaders in the Hill Country. There are 77 different tribes in the nation of Bangladesh, and leaders from 9 tribes have attended the School…
Cuba Continues to Grow Despite Opposition
SOC Director Delvis Mercado – Field-Worker Delvis Mercado, SOC Field-Worker, reports that Pastor Reynosa Labori, and his team, continue to work throughout Cuba expanding the message of Pentecost. In 2017, they ran the School of Christ Schools in Santiago, Baracoa, Havana, Punta de Maisi, and Moa. A total of 120 pastors and leaders have…
Amid Witchcraft and Poverty, SOC Changes Lives in Haiti
Richard Goebel – SOC Director We were witness to the presence of the Holy Spirit moving in the hearts of each SOC student in Veladero, Haiti. Testimonies from the 41 graduating pastors and leaders was that they were touched by each lesson. The area where we held the School is filled with witchcraft. The population has…
March Mission Message – Robert Turnage
Robert Turnage – SOC President People who know God and how to pray, are the hope of this generation. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by events and circumstances, and we take these events as a call to intercessory prayer. God has faithfully given us, in His Word, how His people responded to days such as we…
God Dealt With Many Issues of the Heart in the Ireland SOC
We began a three-week School of Christ in Limerick, Ireland, with eighteen full-time students from eight different nations including England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Taiwan, America, Canada, and Nigeria. There were ten local students that were able to attend part-time. At the end of the third day, one of the students wrote the following: “We have…
SOC Continues to Train Pastors & Workers in the Philippines
The School of Christ International is a great blessing from the Lord to us here in the Philippines. It is a ministry where sound doctrine is preached. We are living in a confused world where men do not know what is right or wrong, and preachers are preaching a false gospel. But, the…
Mission Message
Robert Turnage – SOC President In 1990, Pastor Clendennen preached a series of messages that he later printed in book form, entitled “Restoring the Message of Pentecost.” I have recently revisited these messages and book. Here, almost twenty-eight years later, it exploded in my heart and spirit the significance and urgency of the truth of…
Monclova, Mexico Report
The first School of Christ that was held in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, was blessed and anointed by the Lord. The six graduating students were very dedicated to the purpose of learning and growing in Christ. The Holy Spirit would fall over each of them, and it was a blessing to watch the…
SOC Equips, Encourages, Instructs, and Traines Workers in Kyrgyzstan
(For security purposes we have not included pictures and names in this article) In November, the a team of Christian Brothers, in cooperation with the local church, held a three-week School of Christ in Kyrgyzstan. We had 15 pastors and missionaries that attended the School full-time. We were asked by the church to run the…
SOC Interrupted by Weeping and Crying Out for Revival
Joel Pledge – Director God is moving by His Spirit in Mongolia! We just returned from a School of Christ in the city of Erdenet, Mongolia, where we had 65 students in attendance. This School began with intense prayer, worship, and the study of God’s Word. Andrey and I had preached a Missions Conference…
Mission Message – Robert Turnage
Robert Turnage – SOC President With all that is taking place in the Middle East, I want to share with you an excerpt from Pastor Clendennen’s book, “Three Key Prophecies of the End-Time,” written in 60’s. “For all practical purposes, the world is moving into the time of Jacob’s trouble or Daniel’s missing…
December Mission Message – Robert Turnage – President
We were blessed to have former School of Christ students Andrey and his wife Lyudmyla Syrisko, and Stepan Volenk come to the Beaumont office of the School of Christ to meet with Pastor/President Robert Turnage regarding the work of SOC in the Ukraine and surrounding countries. Andrey and his wife now live in Seattle, Washington,…
SOC continues to Change Lives at Angola State Penitentiary
The Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola is a maximum-security prison farm. It is operated by the Louisiana Department of Public Safety & Corrections. It is the largest maximum-security prison in the United States with 6,300 prisoners and 1,800 staff, including corrections officers, janitors, maintenance, and wardens. It is located on an 18,000-acre property that was…
China – A Door Open That No Man Can Shut
(For security purposes we have not included pictures and names in this article) In June 2017, we were invited by local leaders of the underground church in Eastern China to run a School of Christ School. Here in the land of Chairman Mao and the Great Wall, Christianity has very little freedom. The government does…
400 Students Attend SOC in Brazil
We have seen God’s hand moving in extraordinary ways! In the month of June we had the privilege to travel to the northern region of Brazil to teach the School of Christ in the state of Amapá. The School was held at the Assembly of God Church in the city of Laranjal do Jari, which…
Russian School of Christ Youth Camp
David Gearheart – SOC Director Yakov Demianchuk – Field- Worker We have just finished our summer School of Christ Youth Camp with 130 young people in attendance. Our study this year was the series: “Faith.” During this week of camp the Lord was present to save and fill believers. Many rededicated their lives and…
Uzbekistan SOC Changes Lives
(For security purposes we have not included pictures or names.) In June, 2017, a School of Christ was run in Uzbekistan, with thirty-five students. Facing severe persecution, they were forced to run the School in a remote area. God began to move from the very beginning of the School. There were students filled with the…
Southeast Asia Experiencing Revival
David Jacobson – SOC Director I was invited to attended the World Missions Conference in Seoul, South Korea in February, 2017 by Pastor Kim. Not knowing what to expect, I was delightfully surprised that everything was clean and well kept. There was an openness toward Christianity almost everywhere. Christian music could be heard in the…
Testimony from Bulgaria
It is a great joy for me to tell how God Worked in my life through the School of Christ. I am the pastor of an Assemblies of God Church in Bulgaria. I received my education and did not have any room for the Holy Spirit. When I began preaching it was with the aspiration…
Powerful SOC in North Sudan
(Pictures and names are withheld for security reasons.) It can be very difficult, at times, to write reports about the work of the School of Christ in East Africa; not because the work is not moving ahead or because we are not seeing victories, but because North Sudan is predominantly Islamic. The residents are ruled…