News and Updates from the School of Christ
China Report by Andrey Sekhin
What a great time we had in the School of Christ in Southern China. Due to complicated circumstances, we decided to teach the School in several stages. I will travel and teach three one-week Schools. All of the students in the School had a missionary call on their life. The majority of them came from…
Myanmar Report by David Jacobson
The following is an email report received from Bro. Ko Aung concerning the result of the February School of Christ held in Keng Tung, Myanmar. Continue to pray for the county of Myanmar, as we know the time is short and we want to be found working for the Lord. Brothers and Sisters in Christ:…
Nicaragua Report by Delvis Mercado Soza
By the mercy of God the work of the School of Christ in Nicaragua is growing. We are running four new Schools with a student population of sixty students from different parts of the country. We are continuing the work of the School in the maximum security prison here. There are more than four thousand…
Dominica Report by Rodney Jaggernauth
On August 12th 2013, we began our 2nd School of Christ on the Island of Dominica. We had thirteen students made up of pastors, teachers, and leaders from the Dominica and St Lucia Islands. This was a very important School because the Lord spoke to me before I left Trinidad that through this School the…
Mongolia Report by Andrey Sekhin
After the success of our last School of Christ in April of this year, we returned to the city of Murun located in Mongolia’s northern most province to hold our second School. Just a stone’s throw away from Siberia, we ran the School of Christ for 45 students who had come from all over Mongolia.…
Tachileik, Myanmar Report by David Jacobson
God met us mightily at the Tachileik, Myanmar Conference in April, 2013—but not without a fight. Our speaker became very ill as he was boarding the plane from Taiwan and had to return to the states. I knew that the Lord would have us go on with the Conference, so I had to preach. God…
Angola Update by Donal Chance
The prisoners in Louisiana State Penitentiary that are going through the School of Christ International send their thanks and love to the staff and President Darrell Turner for providing them with these materials. It is truly a blessing and a life changing opportunity for them. Warden Burl Cain called us to his office 3 months…
Russia Report by David Gearheart
We arrived in Ivangorod, Russia on May 15, 2013, to continue working with Pastor Yakov Demianchuk, Overseas Director of the School of Christ. We had a great time at home seeing my family, but ready to get back to Russia and to the work God has called us to do. A campground was donated to…
Thailand Report by David Jacobson
We arrived Saturday, February 23rd, around 1:30 pm and prepared for the next day’s ministry at MCA’s largest church in Mahachai, Thailand. We found ourselves in a war with the enemy as we discovered the next morning that the taxi driver stole all of our cameras and equipment on the previous day. Leaving Bangkok early…
Mongolia Report by Andrey Skhin
We have just completed the third School of Christ in Mongolia. The School was held in the central city of Huvsgol province, located in the northern most region of this nation. This “city” of 45,000 people is called Murun, and is considered to be a booming metropolis in this sparsely populated country. We were met…
Prison Report by Pete Spackman
In 2004 I received a phone call from an inmate who had been through the School of Christ in Alabama but had been transferred to a private prison in Mississippi. He wanted to know if I could bring the SOC to Mississippi as well. I called the Warden, James Cook, who I had known from…
China Report
The past four years have been very fruitful for the School of Christ in China. In the fall of 2009 we traveled to the far northeastern edge of China and met with 120 people who were seeking the Holy Spirit. They were ministering in the spiritually dark and difficult northeast and searching for answers from…
Ethiopia Report by Pastor Ermais
The School of Christ in Ethiopia is continuing to train leaders and pastors. We were so blessed and privileged to be able to run several Schools in the past few weeks. Even though it is expensive to run a School here, God blessed us with the finances. In February we ran two Schools—one in the…
Ethiopia Report by Richard Goebel
During the month of May, 2013, the School of Christ was held in Dilla, near Hawassa, Ethiopia. A great sacrifice was made by many people to make this school a reality, including the students themselves. This school represented a great victory for us. Two young men who have been affected by the School of Christ,…
Thailand Report by David Jacobson
After ministering at Mahachai, a distant suburb of Bangkok, the team traveled to Nobo, Thailand to preach, teach, and visit a missionary friend, as well as some School of Christ graduates. Former SOC students are being taught English by Missionary Ginger so that they can enter an approved Teacher Training College in New Zealand. The…
Nicaragua Report by Dr. Marion Dodson
We just finished the School of Christ in Coco River Waspan, Nicaragua, with twenty four graduates. We faced a very difficult situation because of the social policy. In this region there are two groups that have taken over all commercial land and air travel. Therefore, all transportation in the area is stopped. However, in the…
Venezuela Report by Donal Chance
With great joy, I write this letter to give a report on yet another School of Christ International among the Wayuu Indians of Northern Venezuela. Even with the devil fighting every step of the way, through finances, material distribution, political unrest, economic crisis, and drug trafficking, the Lord made a way! Sister Brenda Turnage and…
Bay Correctional Facility Faith Based Graduation by Dorothy Hilton
On Friday, March 15, 2013, CCA/BCF held Graduation for the School of Christ honoring thirty-two graduates who finished the School of Christ classes in the past six months. This Graduation was Family Night and several of the graduates had family members attend the celebration and share the dinner. The Visitation Park was arranged for family…
Bolivia Report by Brian Larsen
In May, 2013, we graduated a School of Christ in Cochabamba, Bolivia. Out of this school we are going to run seven new schools in different regions of the city (Quillacollo, Vinto, Tarata, the south, and villages beyond these provinces, and two prisons). A flame has been kindled and it will begin a fire that…
Columbia Report by Delvis Soza
On our trip to Colombia and Venezuela, Pastor Jamie Tundeno and myself visited Barranquilla, Santa Martha, Cali, and Cauca, holding meetings to encourage pastors to continue in the work of the harvest for the Lord. Columbia is one of the places where there is a very large Indian population, and they face a number of…