News and Updates from the School of Christ
SOC Cuba Report
In 2008, God allowed Pastor Delvis Mercado to go to Cuba with the teachings of the School of Christ. Since the first School we have continued to train and equip the Body of Christ. This has prepared them for the work of the ministry as called by God in Ephesians 4:11-13: “ And he gave…
Pottsville Graduation and Mission Service
Pottsville Assembly of God believes in the Great Commission. We are committed to taking the Gospel of Jesus Christ to every person, every town, every city, and every nation of the world. One of my favorite Sundays of the year is Missions Emphasis Sunday. This year on January 13, 2019, was extra special, because we…
Honduras Report
SOC Continues to Train Pastors and Workers in Honduras Founder, B. H. Clendennen, initiated the first School of Christ in Honduras in 2005 and the work is continuing to train workers. The Republic of Honduras is an independent country in Western Central America. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and…
UAE Report
UAE School of Christ Graduates 53 Students The second School of Christ in the United Arab Emirates had to be held in four different venues due to the number of attendees and their travel time. At total of fifty-three students studied the School of Christ lessons in the cities of Satwa Dubai, Sharjah, DIP 1,…
Mission Message
What of the New Year Another New Year is here. Questions arise each year at this time such as, “what does the future hold for me and the rest of the world?” There is a different answer for the believer in Christ and for the unbeliever. For the unbeliever it is a continuation in sorrows…
Great Move of God in Angola, Africa SOC
School of Christ class in Angola, Africa. We praise and give glory to God for all the many doors and opportunities He has given us to carry the School of Christ throughout the world. In September God allowed us to once again teach a SOC in the country of Angola, Africa. The School was…
Mongolian Church Preparing for Revival and Missions Outreach
God continues to impact the country of Mongolia through the School of Christ. In July we held a School to train young adults who are called into the ministry. They ranged in age from 16 to 28, and half of them were committed already to full-time ministry in the churches as pastors, missionaries, small group…
November Mission Message
Robert Turnage – SOC President We live in a world of mostly lost souls. Jesus said in Luke 19:10, “For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” It is not the Will of God for men to perish, and because of the Work of the Son…
Defence of the Gospel
“Set For the Defence of the Gospel” by Robert Turnage “WHO CHANGED THE TRUTH OF GOD INTO A LIE…” Romans 1:25 “…I AM SET FOR THE DEFENCE OF THE GOSPEL.” Philippians 1:17 The call and ministry of the School of Christ International is the same as it has always been with every other God-ordained ministry.…
SOC Moving Forward in Germany
Keith Malcomson – SOC Director SOC Moving Forward in Germany Our annual one-week School of Christ in Marienberg, Germany, was held the first week of June. The attending students were made up of local church leadership, street evangelists, new church planters, and ministers that are preparing for the ministry. We preached several times a day…
August Mission Report
“WHEAT AND TARES” In Matthew 13:24-30, “Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which sowed good seed in his field: But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way. But when the blade was sprung up,…
First SOC Among the Rohingya People in Myanmar
School of Christ students in Rakhine State, Myanmar. In April, 2018, I traveled to Rakhine State, in Myanmar, where the Rohingya people, one of the world’s most persecuted minorities, live. A civil war has been going on for decades in this hate-filled corner of the world. News agencies are calling it the worst humanitarian crisis…
18 Churches Planted by 2010 SOC Graduate
SOC Vice-President Brian Larsen (Left), Pastor Antonio Balmacedo and wife (Center), and SOC Worker/Translator Maxi Mitano. My name is Antonio Balmaceda, and I am a missionary/pastor along with my wife, working in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina. In 2010, I found myself without the strength to continue in the ministry, and was at the point of…
India School of Christ Reunion
When Pastor Osborne called to ask if the School of Christ could help financially with the expenses of the India SOC Reunion, I immediately felt this was ordained of God. These three men of God preached, encouraged, prayed, and fellowshipped with the attending pastors and workers, all former graduates of the SOC. The work of…
First SOC Graduation in the UAE
First graduating SOC class in the United Arab Emirates. The first class of the School of Christ International in the United Arab Emirates was a success. We had forty-one graduates on May 25, 2018, after three months of evening classes. These forty-one students came from the Emirates of Dubai, Sharjah, and Abu Dhabi. It was…
Mission Message
SOC President – Robert Turnage At times phrases such as “cutting edge” and “front line” are used to describe a particular thing that is beyond the ordinary. It brings attention to the fact that what is being referenced has excelled or even gone far beyond the expected goal, or even a hoped-for goal, beyond what…
SOC Altered Pastors Life Forever
Brian Larsen – SOC Director/Vice-President (Left), Brother Maxi – Field-Worker (Center), Pastor Edgardo Noceda (Right). Greetings, may the Peace of the Lord be with you. My name is Pastor Edgardo Silvino Noceda and I went to the School of Christ in Argentina in 2010. At that time I was a Youth Pastor and worked together…
Evangelistic Harvest Being Discipled in Mongolia
Joel Pledge – SOC Director Andrey Sekhin – Field-Worker Andrey Sekhin and myself just finished our second School of Christ in the Erdenet region of Mongolia. Because of time limitations, we had a two-week School. We met every day for two hours of prayer and six hours of teaching. Most of these students were…
June Mission Message
Robert Turnage – President A friend of mine wrote a song entitled, “WHY SHOULD I FEAR” The lyrics of the song are: “Why should I fear when the Lord is on my side, Why should I fear in His love I’ll safely hide; He is to me my Fortress and my Rock, Tell me…
Nicaraguan Prison Update
Thanks be to God that the School of Christ continues to advance in the Nicaraguan prisons. Two years ago when the door opened up for us to teach the School of Christ in the National Penitentiary System, our first duty was to train and equip chaplains and ministers. Pastor Gustavo Miranda, SOC field-worker and head…