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Faith Bible Church is a sending church. We sent Natalie Widman to Tenerife in Spain’s Canary Islands on January 21, 2012. Natalie arrived in Tenerife to join a church plant, partnering with Dave and Lois Belch, Nathan and Julie Thir...

For several years, Jared and Claire Millican have been praying about whether to move their family to the Czech Republic to partner with our Global Outreach Partners, Marcus and Amie Denny and the church in Kladno. Here...

Dustin Erbeznik remembers what was like to be lost. He’s encouraging believers to remember the people all around them who still are. Dustin came from a nominally Catholic family and knew of a distant God, but the idea of knowing Jesus wa...

It’s a ubiquitous truth that when a friend wants to catch up, a student needs to study, or your family comes to town to say a quick hello, heading to your local coffee shop is natural. Much like the dinner table, people gather around the coffee ...

In Acts 2, thousands of people of many languages came to Jerusalem for Pentecost and heard Peter’s proclamation of the gospel. Many of the 3,000 who were saved that day presumably returned to their homes across the region carrying t...

As believers, we are Christ’s ambassadors in the world. The places we go each day are full of people who need to hear the truth of the Gospel and the full counsel of God contained in his Scriptures. Some of those people would even b...

Jesus tells us in Matthew 28:18-20 to make disciples of all the nations. We know from Revelation 5:9-10 that Christ has purchased people from every tribe and nation. For this reason, we continue sending global partners to take the gospel to the na...

Steve* majored in Professional Golf Management (yes, you can major in golf; 18 US universities offer this major, including the University of Idaho). After some experience managing golf courses in the US, he applied for and was hired to oversee con...

He can do above and beyond all that we can ask or think. Ephesians 3:20 I like those words. They were written by a missionary who had many years to test those words and many opportunities to prov...

Main Idea: The mission of the Gospel is for people from all nations to know and worship God. Points: The Mission of the Gospel in CreationThe Mission of the Gospel in the Covenants...

Undoubtedly, many Christians in the U.S. were disappointed at the outcome of the recent presidential election. Then there’s COVID-19 with its restrictions, job losses, cancelled vacations and sadly, its deaths. It seems like a year with a lot to...

Hopefully by now you’ve heard that we’ve got something big planned for this Christmas Eve! So far we’ve said it will be nothing like any Christmas Eve service you’ve been to before, and that’s it’s going to be a lot of fun. But by far ...

Ministry While we often think of England as the land of the Puritans and Spurgeon, the current climate in England is one of abject spiritual darkness. The statistics about the modern church in the UK demonstrate that, while England...

Discipleship is a vital aspect of our lives and is a command from God. When Matthew 28:19-20 calls us to, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit,” it doesn’t leave o...

Watch the video update hereSometimes ‘the missing everyone feeling’ overtakes us during our worship servi...

One Sunday as Pastor Nathan Thiry concluded his sermon, he challenged us to share the gospel with someone in the coming week. This, of course, is the right and Biblical thing to do. But not so easy for some of us (maybe a lot of us). That evening ...

I remember about a year ago, my eyes were opened and my heart was softened to serve a specific way in my church. A beloved sister at my church had battled with cancer for a while and just recently went home to be with the Lord. What struck me is t...

Recently I was sharing with my friend, Cheryl* the concern I felt over my brother and his rejection of the gospel as found in Scripture. Eric* claims to love God and would say he’s a Christian who is heaven-bound, but his beliefs lack substance ...

Why does Faith Bible Church send and support global partners (what we used to call missionaries before it became a dangerous word)? Many years ago, I was at a missions banquet at a large church in Portland. The MC went around to the six global par...

The house I grew up in was beautiful in the fall. A maple tree twice its height would be ablaze with the colors of autumn right out front. Pumpkins adorned the steps that led to the front door, which often had cornstalks propped up next to it and ...

“Boom!!!!” The noise of crunching metal and a loud impact tell us that a car accident has occurred outside of our house. The sound of a barking dog might alert you to the arrival of a visitor. Crying from a child tells you that some sort of ne...

There are certain books that come along every so often that serve as a knife to the soul and Evangelism as Exiles: Life on Mission as Strangers in our Own Land is one of those books. Not the knife that injures but as a needed scalpel in t...

Alexander just showed up! He had seen a flyer posted in the hallway of his apartment complex about a Bible conference at a nearby evangelical church. The theme attracted his attention—the family! He knew all too well the mess of his marriage, an...

While drinking coffee at Siam Mall with Alcides (missionary pastor in the Adeje church) on our recent visit to Tenerife, he asked me to share any life advice with the two youth who accompanied him. I responded, “persevere!” I saw the ...

Quitting is relatively easy! You just quit! You just walk away! Persevering is significantly more difficult! You must continue! You must keep going! The author of the Bible book called Hebrews knew of this probability of drifting away. He ...

When the wind storm tore up our artificial grass in Tenerife and laid it over the wall, it also took our neighbor’s metal outdoor furniture and threw it onto our driveway. We had not met these neighbors before, but this act of God’s providence...

In the temple courtyard, a group of musicians and singers perform a loud and bizarre song. Some patron has paid for them to come and entertain the goddess this morning, hoping to influence her for a desired outcome. Two of the worshippers, an old ...

All of us love to be the guest of someone who has received us into their home and is treating us like family. We delight in delicious food, friendly conversation and the joy of knowing and being known by others. Throughout history being r...

Folks involved in cross cultural ministry seem to love acronyms. I’ve heard creative ones put an entire sentence together with just verbs and acronyms. But the goal isn’t to have secret codes that others can’t understand. It’s really to sh...

Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all the nations in Matthew 28:18-20. In Acts 1:8 he said “But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to t...

I grew up in a home that was nominally and hypocritically religious, but decidedly non-Christian. Raised to believe that the Bible was God’s word, I never remember a time in my life when I questioned that fact. There was a large Free Methodist U...

Have you ever had unexpected circumstances arise and wondered how you might pay for it? Maybe an illness, the loss of a job or an automotive repair. In the earliest years of Faith Bible Church the Elders set up the Care Fund to care for th...

Global Outreach at Faith Bible Church is all about preaching the gospel to the world so that people from every nation will worship Jesus Christ, be gathered together into local churches and be made into disciples who make more disciples. This is w...

We sent Lois Belch, Daniel Dougherty, Rylee Atha, Jen and Natalie Widman to Faenza, Italy last month. They partnered with Carmen Chugg, Lois’ sister, who is planting a church along with a couple named Mario and Annagret. The following is a repor...

FBC Global Outreach is committed to taking the gospel to new places and training leaders for new local churches. We love to partner with our global outreach partners by sending short-term teams to help with the proclamation of the gospel and the e...

Global Outreach at Faith Bible Church is all about carrying out the Great commission—we want to make disciples of all the nations who are gathered together in local churches. We do this by taking the gospel to new places to make new disciples an...