News and Updates from the School of Christ

Tachileik, Myanmar Report by David Jacobson

By David Jacobson | December 26, 2013

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

By Donal Chance | December 17, 2013

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

By David Gearheart | December 12, 2013

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

By David Jacobson | December 11, 2013

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

By Andrea Sekhin | December 10, 2013

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

By Pete Spackman | December 6, 2013

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

By Brenda Turnage | December 6, 2013

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

By Ermais | December 5, 2013

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

By Richard Goebel | December 5, 2013

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

By David Jacobson | December 4, 2013

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

By Dr Marion Dodson | December 4, 2013

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

By Donal Chance | December 4, 2013

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

By Dorothy Hilton | December 4, 2013

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

By Brian Larsen | December 4, 2013

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

By Delvis Soza | December 4, 2013

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…

Indonesia Report by Evaristus Riswartono

By Evaristus Riswartono | December 3, 2013

We just finished the School of Christ in Waingapu, Sumba, in September, 2013, and we graduated 18 students. The testimony of all of the students was how the Lord changed and transformed their lives. The testimony of one student, Pastor Marthen, a senior pastor said, “The Holy Spirit revealed to me clearly the eternal purpose…

Israel Report by Curtis McGehee

By Curtis McGehee | December 3, 2013

My first trip to Israel was in 2005 with Dr. Marion Dodson and Pastor B.H. Clendennen, where the first Israel School of Christ was conducted.  In November 2012, I was privileged to return to Israel for the fifth time. I can now report that the long-term effects of the School of Christ are still being…

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