One thing leads to another and another in Spirit-led missions movements. The explosive growth of Schools for Christ in public schools in Central America has brought the gospel movement into close cooperation with school districts and municipal governments. Through the Church on the March in Central America, it is currently happening in four different countries […]
About ten years ago, a mission team with doctors and children’s teachers from Alabama had an unscheduled day on their hands. The accompanying missionary thought to ask the director of the rural grade school if he would like the team to spend the day in the school, serving the children. As an unforeseen result, that […]
The stories above reflect the beginning of just one Great Commission movement and can give hints to God’s servants anywhere about God’s secrets for victory today and until the End comes. In 2005, the Lindwalls were surprised to be sent by God back to the United States . They had planned to complete their lives […]
Indigenous groups, like the Kekchí, are normally very difficult to enter with the gospel. God showed there a surprising way the gospel could catch fire in a people group. Could the same thing happen in an old inner-city neighborhood where there was not one resident Christian family available to help? Following the Christ’s four-step Great […]
On a desert highway in Guatemala, in 1962, God spoke clearly to Lindwall letting him know that he was to go as a missionary to Cobán—a remote place beyond two mountain ranges reached by a six hour drive from a paved highway on a narrow dirt road. Lindwall knew nothing about the place but told […]
Bill Davis and Ted Lindwall have been good friends since 1954 and have been missionary partners for the last twenty years. Davis’s organization has published Lindwall’s mission field-based training and disciple-making materials since 1997. Inspired by Davis, Lindwall established the Church on the March for the purpose of uniting missionaries, churches and denominational and missionary […]
Pastor Hue Nguyen is revered among Vietnamese Christians as a survivor of 6 years imprisonment as a preacher of the gospel in a Communist jungle prison camp. Trained by Lindwall in conferences conducted by CSI and Bill Davis, Hue has incorporated the CSI materials in an ambitious missionary training program called the Vietnamese Missionary Institute. […]
With his wife, Mary, Bill Davis was one of the “Million More in ‘54”—saved through the work of a new California Southern Baptist church started in the town where he worked as a welder. Six months later, they moved to Huntington Beach, CA, where they joined another new Southern Baptist work started by this author, […]
Youth gangs are on the rise in Central America and many schools are becoming centers of juvenile terror. Suddenly, many public schools are open to weekly Bible teaching in the classrooms. Their laws permit this and the school authorities have found no other answer to the problem. Weekly Bible teaching has proved to completely change […]
Church mission teams of ten or more volunteers can open from two to four new schools to have weekly Bible teaching as a regular part of the school curriculum. American volunteer teams helped by Central American volunteers, conduct an entertaining introductory program, meet the faculty, and have Christ-based parenting conferences, with testimonies, for large groups […]