John Piper, in his book ‘Brothers, We Are Not Professionals’, writes,

     “Prayer is the splicing of our limp wire to the lightning bolt of heaven.”

I love that quote. In and of ourselves, we are at best, holding a “limp wire”. But it is through our prayers that we can splice together our feeble efforts, "to the lightning bolt of heaven”, through which great things can be done!!

With that great reality in mind, here are some ways you can pray for us in the month ahead...

1. Please pray that God would draw unbelievers to Sovereign Grace churches, and save them, as we hold our Christmas-related events and services this month.

2. Please pray that God would use the Sovereign Grace Music “Prepare Him Room” concerts in various cities in December to celebrate the birth of Christ and to declare the good news of the gospel.

3. Please pray that God would give the members of Sovereign Grace churches opportunities to share the gospel, a powerful reality, with unbelieving family members, friends, neighbours, and coworkers over this holiday season.

4. Please pray for Pastor Greg and Pastor Dave (full names concealed) as they head to Pakistan (December 2nd-12th), to serve our friends and partners over there. Please pray for traveling mercies, spirit-empowered discernment, spirit-empowered speech and safety, as they put boots on the ground and seek to come alongside this growing work, as well as discern ‘next steps’ for this treasured gospel partnership.

5. Please pray for Josh Montague, SGC Pastoral Candidate at Cross of Grace Church, Chaska, and Director of Expository Training at TLI, as well as Nate Treguboff and Jordan Strand, as they head to the Philippines (December 5th – 12th) to teach ‘Knowing the Bibles Story’ to 30+ Filipino pastors and pastors in training. May this be a rich time of learning and fellowship for everyone involved.

6. Please pray for our new church plant in a province of Isaan, Thailand that launched mid-November.  We thank God for those he has brought to hear the good news and pray they and many others would come, see and believe in Jesus.  That the lost in this province both in the remote areas and city would hear and find hope in Christ through the church, and the many Christmas outreaches in December.

… Thank you for praying for our family of churches. May His grace abound to us all!

This year’s Pastors Conference was such a blessing! We had over 800 people from 21 different nations in attendance. Heard the Word of God read in 6 different languages. Enjoyed excellent preaching from Jared Mellinger, Jon Payne, Jeff Purswell, C.J.Mahaney, and Mark Prater, as well as in all the breakout sessions, and we sang, fellowshipped, prayed and ate together for three wonderful days. 

For those traveling in for the conference, it was worth every mile of the trip. Here is a sampling of how it impacted some of our internationals...

Josh Kruger Jr. (Namibia)

After nearly a year of being on the ground and working towards a church plant, being able to attend the Pastors Conference was not only refreshing…as in “Yes, this is what we are all about”. But it was refreshing as a young church planting pastor to be surrounded again by like-minded men and their wives. Men who think, process, consider, enjoy, and prioritize their lives and ministries around, firstly Scripture and secondarily around our own Statement of Faith. It was a blessing to look men that represent churches in the eye and thank them for their partnership, support, and prayers.

Songhwan Kang (South Korea)

I would like to thank SG again for allowing me and my wife to attend the pastors conference. This conference always gives my wife and I a new strength and grace to serve the church. What I realize every time I attend is that SG's friendship and passion for the gospel are outstanding. Also, at this conference, I was deeply moved to discover SG's desire to build God's kingdom with the next generation.

Austin Loke (Australia)

I really appreciated the specifity and applicability of all the messages, which gave to us specific things to head home with and run hard towards. I was equipped to rail against fruitless remembering, stirred to a more fervent pursuit of godliness, provoked to yearn for eyes to see God's grace in the lives of others, envisioned with a transmissional view of ministry, and emboldened with an enduring faith to not shrink back but press on!

Jeffrey Jo (Philippines)

Through Jarred’s preaching, I was reminded to have a spirit of Barnabas, to always see the beauty of God’s grace at work in the lives of others and to choose to encourage others and avoid hyper-evaluation in someone’s life. I can exercise this by continually reflecting the heart of God towards my life and others.

Richie Song (Australia)

It was beautiful to see and hear about the incredible work God is doing in Sovereign Grace churches all around the world - transforming lives, growing communities of faith, healing the broken, and bring hope to places we may never see firsthand. It was inspiring and encouraging to hear stories of how God is moving powerfully though His people and spurs me on for the mission here in my local area!

Norman Pedd (Spain)

I was really encouraged with the main sessions, the way to look at the past with a healing vision, to walk in the present with a Godly grace, and an encouraging grace, and with a challenge for the future in preparing others for the ministry. A special gift was the time we passed as SGC Europe, in time of sharing, communion and prayer, so thankful to the Lord for all.

V & I (Belarus)

We thank God for the opportunity and privilege to attend the conference in Orlando. My wife and I were attending the Sovereign Grace Conference for the first time. It was an answer to my prayers as this has not been an easy year for our family. All of the sermons were just right to my heart. Our young church is four years old, and I have often thought about what could be done differently. I have regretted some decisions, and C.J. Mahaney's sermon was just what I needed. I felt spiritually renewed and encouraged. The friendliness, openness and family atmosphere at the conference was a great encouragement to us. We lived together with the European group and the evenings were an unforgettable time. We thank all the organizers and those who helped to make this conference possible for us.

Matt Chapman (England)

Gathering as a European group was for me one of the true highlights of this year’s Pastor's conference. The deepening friendships, along with the growing sense of partnership we experienced, left me full of fresh faith and expectation for what the Lord is doing through Sovereign Grace in Europe.

Andrew Leung (Australia)

The Pastor's Conference is always one of my highlights of the year! This year is no different. Faithful and passionate teaching of God's Words that stirs the heart and soul, as well as the joy and privilege of singing next to hundreds of pastors and wives that we get to serve alongside in the trenches. This year, real life testimonies of 'not-so-young' pastors being involved with church plants, notwithstanding the cost, has been faith stirring. Blessed to hear these stories firsthand and spurred on to continue laying down our lives for the glory of God, in service to His people and His mission!

If you missed the conference but would like to hear the talks then good news, all of the audio and video of the main sessions is now available on the events page. In addition, all of the audio from each of the breakout sessions is now available on the same page. 

God accomplished so much through our short time together in Orlando. Our partnership was strengthened, vision for our shared mission was expanded, and our relationships were deepened. How blessed we are!

Recently on the Mark Prater podcast, Mark gave an update on Sovereign Grace Music and the influence and impact, in God’s great kindness, that it’s having around the world. Here’s a short excerpt from the conversation:

“I put some stats together every year for the Executive Committee retreat, which I was at last week, and I'm only going to share some of those to illustrate the influence and the impact that Sovereign Grace Music has. And these I typically hand out at the Council of Elders meeting. So I'm aware that not all of our pastors are at that meeting, and members of our churches typically aren't at that meeting. So I wanted to share them because they are really encouraging and they demonstrate how God is using Sovereign Grace Music, not only to influence Sovereign Grace Churches, but churches throughout the world…”

It’s such an encouraging conversation. You can watch or listen to it here… (Mark Prater Podcast)

An update from Dave York, Senior Pastor of Covenant Life Fellowship in Roseburg, Oregon, USA, and Emerging Nations Representative to the Philippines…

From October 10 to 21, my wife, Jill, and I were privileged to visit our beloved brothers and sisters in the Philippines. Our trip was to conduct two leadership summits with leaders within Sovereign Grace and those interested in Sovereign Grace. We also wanted to encourage our friends in the gospel’s work.

We started our time in Cebu City, Philippines, at His Dwelling Christian Church (HDCC), pastored by Nilo Ebo and Ian Naman. On Saturday, October 12, they hosted a Leadership Summit for 120 people entitled “The Beauty of Gospel Partnership”. I preached on Gospel partnership extra-locally, locally, and in marriage. The attendees leaned in as God’s word was declared and asked some remarkably challenging questions. I thank God that Nilo was my faithful and hilarious interpreter. I often had no idea what he was saying, but the entire congregation was laughing, so it must have been good. Or he was making fun of the Americans who didn’t speak Cebuano. 

On Sunday, we enjoyed celebrating the Risen Christ with HDCC. After church, we enjoyed a great potluck and a Ministry Leader meeting. The people at HDCC were such a joy to serve. Like all Filipinos, they are joyful, but our dear brothers and sisters love Jesus and want to serve Him in their nation. 

On Monday, we had the joy of hanging out with some of the younger SGC pastors and wives in Negros and Cebu (Gilbert Tolentino, Ian and Robe Naman, and Saitam and Jorgie Matias). We enjoyed a great view, food, and even better fellowship. These dear friends asked deep questions and long to serve Jesus faithfully.

On Wednesday, we left Cebu to go to Manila to meet Jeffrey and Jeannie Jo. Jeff is genuinely “my brother from another mother,” as he and I were born on the same day and year (I look younger).

We had the privilege of spending extra time with Jeff, Jeannie, Francis, and Tina Mariano in Tagaytay. One highlight was having lunch with the Volcano Taal, spewing smoke in the background.  

On Saturday, we had a similar Leadership Summit on the same topics as Cebu, but this time, it was only for Sovereign Grace Churches. Seeing dear brothers like Caloy San Jose (pastor of Jesus the River of Life Church), Jom Aquino (pastor of Cross of Christ Salvation Gospel Ministries in Dasmarinas), and Eman and Apple Iluzada was a great joy. These friends in Manila are growing gospel-centered churches and represent Jesus all over their area. Their churches are growing and multiplying.

We topped off ministry week at Cross of Christ Salvation Gospel Ministries in Kawit, where Jeffrey Jo pastors. You don’t need to worry about decibel meters when you worship there. The level of joyful worship was incredible. It was a joy to share God’s word with them and see how receptive and eager they were to apply what they heard. By God’s grace, Jeff has built a wonderful church in Kawit.  

As we move into 2025 with SGC Philippines, our goals are simple. Seven brothers are working through the ordination materials with hopes of doing their oral exams. Lord willing, we will begin work earnestly on a Book of Church Order for SGC Philippines, hoping to have it ratified in 2026. All the while, the Lord is growing His church, and the gospel is at work. What a joy to be a part of God’s work in the Philippines.        

An update from Zach Varnell, Pastor at Cornerstone Church of Knoxville, Tennessee…

I’m sure many of you saw the devastation in Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina in late September after Hurricane Helene hit the mountains.  

In our area, hurricanes are not generally considered cause for concern or something to prepare for, but after 11 inches of rain in the weeks leading up to Helene’s landfall and an additional 10 inches of rain once the hurricane hit, some rivers rose as much as 30 feet above their banks. To make matters worse, the terrain of these mountains and watersheds exacerbated the speed and volume of water flow, wreaking terrible destruction. For the people living in these communities, there was simply no way to have been prepared. 

As we began to comprehend the extent of the damage in the immediate aftermath of the storm, we, like so many others in the area, were eager to play a part and serve in whatever way we could.

As a church, we have funds set aside for situations such as this, to care for our community. Hurricane Helene, however, was an unprecedented undertaking. When we emailed the church and communicated our desire to serve, thousands of dollars poured in. Dozens of people volunteered to go shopping for supplies, filling our church office with water, canned goods, diapers, formula, medication, fuel, clothing, and so much more.

Our first trip was to Unicoi County High School in Erwin, Tennessee. This is the same town where many of you may have seen the images of helicopters evacuating people from the roof of their flooded hospital. When we arrived at the high school, we were overwhelmed to see hundreds of volunteers gathered, working nonstop to organize and distribute vital supplies to surrounding areas. There was even an Army helicopter who would land at the high school for supplies and then air lift them to harder to reach areas.

Initially, we thought that this would be our only trip because we had exhausted our funds. But in God’s kindness, more money came in, including funds from Sovereign Grace Churches, and we were able to resupply and go back the very next day, this time to Bakersville, North Carolina.

We had heard through connections that Bakersville was an area in need and hadn’t received much help. Part of the difficulty early on was learning where to go, who could handle the supplies that were coming in, and what exactly they needed. Despite the confusion, God provided local contacts in this hard-hit area through members of our church.

Along with other things, we delivered 11 generators that day. We didn’t even have time to unload at the local church, which had been set up as an emergency aid station. The people were so excited to receive these supplies that they were unloaded directly from our truck, into the vehicles of the people waiting, and went straight to their homes.

Since that day, even more supplies have come in and more trips have been made. We were able to help a neighborhood near Asheville that had mostly been cut off due to road conditions. A local Knoxville farmer gave us three trailer loads of hay to take to a man who had lost his farm but not his cattle. We also learned of a pastor who lost everything, including his home and vehicles, and were able to give him and his wife a check to help them rebuild. All of this has been the grace and providence of God. I believe we’ve been able to help in a small way, and it has encouraged our local church.

The need in these areas is hard to grasp, and relief efforts remain a massive task. But what has so clearly stood out in all of this is the Church – God’s people transformed by God’s grace and eager to demonstrate God’s love. One person told us explicitly that all the help they had received had been from churches. There have been many individuals and volunteers for sure, but the body of Christ has been impossible to miss. People are going to churches for help, and churches are leading the way in bringing hope and the gospel to those in need. What a joy to be a part! All glory to Christ.

We plant churches to serve our communities and to reach people with the good news of Jesus Christ.

This video highlights just one example of what the Lord has done and is doing through our church planting efforts - which is why we have made church planting such a large part of our mission as a denomination.

What is most evident (and what we hope you are most encouraged by) in this video is the saving grace of God. He continues to move on the hearts of those in need of him. This video is an inspiring reminder of how God pursues us, provides grace, and, in his kindness, does it through the local church.

We are grateful to God for Stephen and his faithful service to the men and women in his community... May God continue to add to Grace City Church of Frankford!

Let us continue to plant churches to advance the gospel of Jesus Christ, all for His glory alone! Enjoy the video!

An update from Riley Spring, Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church Parramatta and National Leader for SGC Australia…

We are so thankful to God for the amazing time we had recently at our first ever SG Australia Men’s Conference with our dear friend Eric Turbedsky serving us. It was a special time as the men of our churches gathered together united in our devotion to Christ.

Earlier in the year we had an awesome Women’s Conference which was really well attended, but we have more women than men and so we assumed our men’s conference would have far less men attend. Instead, we had more men come! So much so that we were only just able to fit into our ministry centre. But that added to the fun as we squished in and made it work. I think there was a collective sense of brotherhood and joy to be gathering as men of God.

We ate together, played dumb fun games together, sang hearty, manly songs together and sat under God’s word together. Our theme was “Christ Our Captain”, where we wanted to have our men see that Christ is not just our saviour but also our captain and Lord who gives us our marching orders for life.

Eric preached three powerful messages from this theme, three marching orders from Christ our Captain: Love, Fight, Rest! These messages resonated with the guys and helped clarify their life, particularly around Christ’s call to love his people, the church.

On this idea Spurgeon remarked in his last ever sermon:

Depend upon it, you will either serve Satan or Christ, either self or the Saviour. You will find sin, self, Satan, and the world to be hard masters; but if you wear the livery of Christ, you will find him so meek and lowly of heart that you will find rest unto your souls. He is the most magnanimous of captains. There never was his like among the choicest of princes. He is always to be found in the thickest part of the battle. When the wind blows cold he always takes the bleak side of the hill. The heaviest end of the cross lies ever on his shoulders. If he bids us carry a burden, he carries it also. If there is anything that is gracious, generous, kind, and tender, yea lavish and superabundant in love, you always find it in him. These forty years and more have I served him, blessed be his name! and I have had nothing but love from him. I would be glad to continue yet another forty years in the same dear service here below if so it pleased him. His service is life, peace, joy. Oh, that you would enter on it at once! God help you to enlist under the banner of Jesus even this day! Amen

As Pastors, we were so pleased to see the level of enthusiasm and devotion of the men of our churches. If you want to see a video slideshow of the event, please click here!!

A big thank you to all those who helped make this happen, especially Sovereign Grace Church of Orange for releasing Eric to come and serve us so well.

We hope that God will use events like this to help us stand on His Word, resist the cultural downgrade of masculinity, and build Godly men for the future. Our plan is to do this again every two years. I am already excited for 2026!

‘Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

1 Corinthians 16:13

In a recent ‘Sovereign Grace Churches Fourth Quarter 2024 Prayer Requests’ email from Mark Prater, the Executive Director of Sovereign Grace Churches, he writes the following:

‘In his commentary on the book of Judges, Dale Ralph Davis writes this about prayer, “Yahweh’s hearing is the most crucial matter for all prayer…When God listens to our voice, we must never respond with a yawn. We will trivialize prayer whenever we forget the repeated miracle it involves, the gracious condescension of the King of glory, who stoops down to listen to our verbs and nouns, our adverbs and questions, our groans and tears.”

What an amazing, humbling truth that we must never take for granted. God listens! In gracious condescension, He stoops down and listens to our prayers. May that “repeated miracle” fuel our desire to pray for our shared mission, and for one another in Sovereign Grace.’

With that in mind, here are some ways you can be praying for us in the month ahead…

1. Please pray for the Sovereign Grace Churches Pastors Conference, November 5-7th, 2004, in Orlando, USA asking God to work in a way that our relationships among our churches are strengthened, pastors and wives are equipped for what God has called them to do, and that our family of churches is united in our shared gospel mission all for the glory of God alone.

2. Please pray for the annual Sovereign Grace Churches Council of Elders meeting, on November 4th, in Orlando, asking God to give our pastors wisdom to make decisions that strengthen our mission, foster our unity, and that best serve our churches. Please also pray for the various interest meetings at the Pastors Conference: Evangelism Interest Meeting, Small Towns Initiative Info Meeting, Pastors College & Pastoral Ministry Interest Meeting, and Church Planting Interest Meeting. That faith would be stirred and further plans for partnering together in these ways can be fostered.

3. Please pray for Pat Tedeschi, currently a pastor at Greentree Church in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, USA who will be moving to London in early 2025 to lead Oasis International Church into partnership with Sovereign Grace. Pray that God would provide visas, housing, etc. for Pat and Dana, and ask God to give Pat wisdom and help to lead Oasis Church to continue their gospel mission in London.

4. Please pray for the Philippines Pastors Institute, which started another academic year in September, looking to theologically equip 14 students. It’s the hope that through this PPI, Sovereign Grace Churches Philippines, and the Mindanao Region specifically, will continue to be faithful in gospel ministry for generations to come.

5. Please pray that God would continue to provide financially for Sovereign Grace Churches so that we can fund the many gospel opportunities that He is giving us around the world.

… As we pray, let us continue to be amazed that God listens! Thanks for joining us in this.

An update from Riley Spring, Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church Parramatta and National Leader for SGC Australia…

On September 15th, we had the immense joy of celebrating our 5th Anniversary since planting Sovereign Grace Church Parramatta. It was a day full of gratitude and joy, and in true SG Parra fashion, we packed the morning with baby dedications, new member inductions, and the baptism of a new believer! It was a special moment in the life of our church family. 

SG Parramatta on pre-launch Sunday, five years ago.

When the 28 of us first left Sovereign Grace Church, Wahroonga, we were excited, hopeful, "ready"—and blissfully naïve! Five years and a global pandemic later, we are still excited and hopeful, eager to serve, but perhaps a bit more seasoned.

Through it all, we have sought to be an ordinary church proclaiming an extraordinary gospel. It’s been a joy to witness God’s Word taking root in hearts and transforming lives from the inside out.

One such story is the testimony of Leng, the cousin of Daven, one of our Deacons. Daven invited Leng to church when she first immigrated here. She came sporadically, but in that time, she completed an evangelistic course and later joined a one-on-one Bible reading program with CJ, one of our deacons and a faithful disciple-maker. CJ walked alongside Leng for months, reading Scripture with her and offering godly counsel. After some time, due to personal challenges with immigration and family, Leng drifted away. We weren’t sure what the Lord was doing, but then she returned! And it was clear God had been working in her heart, assuring her of His love and bringing her to salvation.

Here’s an excerpt from her testimony: 

“I was raised Catholic in the Philippines, where I learned about the Trinity: God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. I believed that if I knew some Bible stories and lived kindly, I would earn my place in heaven. I thought salvation was a simple equation: God plus good works equals salvation.

Yet, I often felt a profound emptiness. Even as I pursued education, built a career, and started a family, there was a void I couldn’t fill. I sensed a calling to know God more deeply, but my understanding was shallow. I attended church and read the Bible, but its deeper meaning escaped me.

Everything began to change when I moved here two years ago, and my cousin Daven invited me to SG Parra. Through the Alpha course and a study with CJ, I encountered a life-changing truth: Jesus is the living God who takes away the sins of the world, including mine. For the first time, I understood that salvation isn’t earned by my works but rests entirely on the finished work of Jesus on the cross.

Before Christ, I trusted in my own wisdom and strength, unaware of the depth of my sin. But when I placed my faith in Jesus, it was as if a sleeping giant inside me woke up. I saw my sin for what it was and realized my need for a Savior. Through Jesus alone, I found salvation.”

Stories like Leng’s remind us why we planted this church: to proclaim the gospel and see lives transformed by the grace of Christ.

We are also committed to raising up future pastors. Currently, we have Richard Song as a Pastoral Candidate and the Seric family studying at the Pastor’s College in Louisville. From the beginning, our dream was to be a church-planting church—and by God’s grace, we still have high hopes to plant a new church in the years to come.

We are deeply grateful to SG Wahroonga and Pastors Dave Taylor and Brendan Willis for their partnership and support. Our fellowship with them has been a rich blessing, and we look forward to building a strong family of Sovereign Grace churches across Australia together.

There are countless other ways God has been at work among us—through our Life Groups, marriages, singles, parents, retirees, and ministries like 14:1, men’s and women’s discipleship, and the Deacon team. I’m so thankful to witness His hand at work in every area of our church family.

I also want to take a moment to honor my wife, Maddie. Her love, support, and care over these five years have been a constant source of strength for me—she is my delight and my best friend. And of course, my kids Evie, Jasper, Judah, and Zoe are just the best! It melts my heart when they beg to come to church early with me every Sunday and they are integrally involved in so much of what we do, and they do it so well!

I am a deeply grateful and blessed church planter.

Here’s to five years—and many more to come!

Here’s a short 5-year anniversary video for you… Enjoy!

An update from Andy Farmer, Pastor at Covenant Fellowship, Glen Mills, Pennsylvania, USA…

Our 2024-25 US Church Planting Cohort kicked off with a retreat in Glen Mills in late September. Five men gathered with me and Nick Kidwell for a time of relational connection, instruction and strategic thinking for church plants that are anticipated to launch over the next twelve months.

The cohort this year consists of:

• Mario Figueroa, who is planting a bi-lingual church in Tampa, FL in connection with Grace Church of Orlando.

• Eric Huber, who is planting a church in Galloway, NJ out of Greentree Church in Egg Harbor, NJ.

• Adam Penird, who is planting a church in North Manchester, IN out of Christ Covenant Church in Winona Lake, IN.

• Nathan Smith, who is planting a church in Coatesville, PA out of Covenant Fellowship Church in Glen Mills, PA.

• Howard Varnadoe, who is planting a church in Springhill, TN out of Redeeming Grace Church in Franklin, TN.

We began our monthly zoom calls in October talking about how to gather and pastor folks toward a church plant. In the next few months we’ll be talking about things like assessing locations and meeting facilities, developing missions and evangelism strategy and planning for plurality. 

Please pray for these men as they work toward the requirements for approval of their plant proposals in their regions and for their families as they begin to make transitions toward the church planting experience. 

An update from Josh Pannell, Dean of Trinity Fellowship Pastors College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia…

Celebrating the First Ordination and Commissioning of a Graduate

This past September marked a significant milestone for Trinity Fellowship Pastors College as we celebrated the first ordination of a pastors college graduate, Brian Kiama, and commissioned him to plant Sovereign Grace Church of Nairobi. Brian, his wife Julia, and their two children moved to Addis Ababa from Kenya three years ago to join the pastors college, and Brian embodied the heart of 1 Timothy 4:16, to “keep a close watch on your life and your doctrine.” From day one, Brian pursued his walk with Christ with humility and a readiness to learn, both in academic study and in personal holiness. After graduation, he continued into a two-year pastoral residency with us at Trinity Fellowship Church, where he grew into a shepherd, equipped to guide others toward Christ.

While it was bittersweet to send off Brian and his family, we are filled with gratitude for how God is using them to further His Kingdom in East Africa. This moment came sooner than expected, and it’s a beautiful reminder that the Lord’s plans often exceed our own. “This is the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes!”

The Graduation of Our Second Class

We also celebrated another milestone this September with the graduation of our second class of Pastors College students. Nine men completed their training, eight of whom are Ethiopian, along with one Somali brother—which made us particularly aware of the Lord’s work in our midst, as the Somali people are 99.9% Muslim. He is the third Somali to go through our college, and we are grateful for the small role we’re able to play in reaching unreached people groups with the gospel as we train them for ministry.

About 100 church members gathered to celebrate the graduation, and the ceremony ended as they all joined the graduates in singing “All Glory Be to Christ,” filling the room with voices celebrating the work God has done in the lives of these men over the year.

Welcoming New Pastoral Residents

As we celebrate our graduates, we’re excited to announce that four of them—Abel, Gemechis, Solomon, and Shak—are stepping into year-long pastoral residencies at Trinity Fellowship Church. Each resident will follow a track aligned with their specific gifts and calling: Solomon and Gemechis will focus on preaching and leadership, Shak on counseling and discipleship, and Abel on theology and teaching. We trust that God will use this residency to transform their head knowledge into practical skills for ministry.

Ongoing Leadership Development and Previous Pastors College Graduates

Since our first graduation in 2022, seven graduates have faithfully continued in our pastoral residency at Trinity Fellowship Church. They attend weekly elder meetings, conduct membership interviews, lead counseling meetings, teach at midweek services, lead small groups, lead worship, preach on Sundays, and more! Many also handle the many administrative tasks that help maintain our church and college’s operations.

Three of our graduates have taken on leadership roles within the Pastors College. Mikey now handles logistics and operations, ensuring that the college runs smoothly. Sami has become my academic assistant, helping teach classes, grade papers, and manage the library. Ammanuel leads discipleship and pastoral care for the college, organizing group meetings and meeting individually with students to help them grow.

This year also saw three of our graduates help teach classes at the college, and one graduate teach an entire course. Watching these men transition from students to leaders has been one of the greatest joys of this past year.

We are grateful to witness God raising up men whom we trust will carry the pastors college forward long into the future after our role of equipping men for the work of ministry is done.

An update from Matt Chapman, Pastor of Grace Church Bristol, UK…

Since the summer of 2016, a multitude of volunteers from Grace Church (Bristol, England) have led an annual week-long youth camp (under canvas) in the sometimes sunny, sometimes soggy countryside of South Wales.

The camp was birthed from a desire to serve the 11-18 year olds in our church with an opportunity to step away from the routine of everyday life and to dig deeper into the riches of the gospel together.

From the very beginning the Lord opened the door for us to invite young people from other nearby, gospel-loving local churches too. Over the past 8 years, children from nearly a dozen other churches have joined us at G2 Camp and this year we welcomed our furthest travellers yet as Ed O’Mara and two of his children travelled over from Italy to be with us.

Each morning, we spent time in small groups revelling in the riches of Colossians. In the afternoons we organised games and crafts and off-site outings to the beach and elsewhere. In the evenings we worshipped and prayed and preached our way step by step through Two Ways To Live.

One of the richest encouragements to us over the years has been that while the camp looks far from glamorous or impressive, we see the Lord mightily at work in the hearts and lives of the campers every year. This year was one of our biggest yet with 32 young people attending. Several responded to Christ for the very first time and since our week away 12 have since been baptised, across four different churches.

If I had to highlight just a handful of things that our youth camp has taught us over the years it would be these:

Firstly, rich relationships across different age groups, with adults and parents involved too, plays a powerful role in pointing young hearts to Christ and showing them what it looks like to follow him.

Secondly, time away from the busyness of everyday life, not to mention from the distraction of phones and technology, is a great blessing for teens and really helps open their eyes wider to take in the wonder of creation and redemption, and the God who is gloriously revealed in them both.

But thirdly and most strikingly of all for those of us who have had the privilege to serve again this year, we come away reminded that the simple, unadulterated message of the cross, is the power of God for salvation to all who believe. Our young people don’t need another message, or to have it packaged (or even hidden) in a great rush of worldly thrills to win their attention. They recognise good news when they hear it and they are eager to hear more about the Saviour who laid down his life so that sinners of all ages could be redeemed.

And so once again we adult volunteers leave another year’s camp perhaps most blessed of all - we’re witnesses to the fact that of all that could capture a teen’s attention today, nothing compares to the might and the majesty, the mercy and the beauty of God, revealed in the gospel of his Son.

Youth ministry continues week in, week out here again in Bristol this Autumn - and it’s a privilege to pray for it and be a part of it. But I for one know that our team of parents and volunteers (not to mention our young people as well) can’t wait for next August to come around for another uninterrupted week of enjoying Christ together.

If you’d like to see more of our week together, here is a video of some of the highlights. Enjoy!

“So what Jesus called us to do, he gave us the power of the Spirit to accomplish and he sends us to do it. And that's why our small family of churches gets to play a small part in advancing the gospel throughout the world because we want to see more people come to know our Jesus and know him as Lord and Savior.” ~Mark Prater

Recently on the Mark Prater podcast, Mark gave an update on some of the work that Sovereign Grace is involved in around the world. Here are a few excerpts from that conversation:

“I had to shorten this list because there's just a number of exciting things that God continues to do through our small family of churches throughout the world as he does in other denominations. But we're grateful that he's doing 'em in Sovereign Grace and we get to participate in the advancement of the gospel, the equipping of pastors, the planting of churches throughout the world so that more people will come to know Christ so that the nations will be discipled and Christ would receive more glory. So let me just run through a number of these real quick…”

It’s a wonderful conversation. You can watch or listen to it here… (Mark Prater Podcast)

Charles Spurgeon, in his book “The Power of Prayer in a Believer’s Life," writes:

        “Do not bring before God stinted petitions and narrow desires, but remember, as high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are His ways above your ways and His thoughts above your thoughts. Ask, therefore, after a Godlike fashion, for great things, for you are before a great throne.” 

In God’s amazing kindness, you and I get to come before his “great throne” and ask Him for “great things”. It’s an astounding reality, and so here are some ways you can be praying for our Global work over the next month…

1. Please pray for Dave York (Lead Pastor of Covenant Life Fellowship, OR, US) as he and his wife, Jill, head to the Philippines October 12th-21st, to serve our churches there. It will be a busy time for Dave, as he heads to both Manila and Cebu, with a full schedule containing time with pastoral candidates, preaching in two churches and two leadership summits, and facilitating a SGC Philippines Pastors & Wives Retreat. May it be a sweet time for everyone involved.

2. Please pray for Eric Turbedsky (Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Orange) and Riley Spring (Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Parramatta) as they lead our very first SGC Australia Men’s Conference, October 18th-19th. With many men signed up, please pray this will be a rich time of fellowship and learning, all under the banner of ‘Christ Our Captain’.

3. Please continue to pray for the six Pakistani Pastors who are presently in our ordination process, and meeting monthly for discipleship and discussion. These men are the leadership group of five specific churches, and representative of over four hundred. So much begins with them and so please be praying for them, and for much wisdom for the ordination committees and leaders.

4. Please pray for the SG European area, as they meet during the Pastors Conference to discuss how to strengthen their relationships and what a future European BCO could look like. As the European area grows, three churches are pursuing candidacy: Calvary Galway (Galway, Ireland - Led by Ray Clancy), Iglesia Gracia Soberana (Santander, Spain - Led by Norman Pedd),and Chiesa Grazia e Verità (Catania, Italy - Led by Giuseppe Fortuna). Additionally, Pat Tedeschi will be moving to London in the New Year to lead Oasis International Church into SG partnership. So please pray for wisdom, provision, and a strong interdependency among these SG Europe churches, as well as Ed O’Mara, as he continues to lead as our SGC Area Leader for Europe.

5. Please pray for our missionaries in Thailand, as they move towards starting a Church. Incredibly, God seems to have opened some doors and be bringing pieces together to make this a reality. With services tentatively beginning, please be praying for them, for wisdom and for much grace for everyone involved. This is a very exciting development for our work there and as our missionary recently told me, “Honestly, all I can say is this is ALL God.”

6. Finally, please pray that God would give the members and pastors of Sovereign Grace churches opportunities to share the gospel with unbelievers in our communities, workplaces and on our campuses over this next month. You don’t have to be overseas to be on mission. May we all be on mission, wherever the Lord has us today.

... Thanks friends. Together, may we take these “great things” and head to His “great throne.”

An update from Dave Taylor, Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Sydney and Director of Global Missions for Sovereign Grace Churches...

August was a very sweet month for me, in that over a stretch of twelve days, I got to visit both Zambia & Namibia to seek to do all that I can to strengthen our work there... And what a sweet time it was!

First up was Zambia, where I was warmly greeted at the airport by Ector Makaliki (Lead Pastor of Christ Community Church) and his leadership team. I have known about Christ Community Church for many years, remembering when the late Wilbroad Chanda actually planted the church some fifteen years ago, and so to finally be with them was such a joy. I found the church to be exactly what I had expected: joyful, gracious, encouraging, zealous, gospel-centred, to name but a few.

The Sunday gathering was a highlight, to finally be with the gathered saints of CCC. Their unwavering expressiveness in song will always remain with me, what a wonderful picture of heaven they are. Likewise gathering with all of their leadership group and seeing their heart for the lost, both locally and globally was such an encouragement to me. CCC was the first church in Africa to be in full partnership with Sovereign Grace as an Emerging Nation Church, something it was a joy to remind them of and celebrate with them about.

During my stay I also got to spend some time with Zicky Chanda and her son, Penjani Chanda, as we toured the work of Covenant Mercies together, and in particular the work of Lighthouse Christian School. It’s been nearly 20 years now since this school was founded, serving over 400 children in the area, many of whom are orphans and are able to attend through Covenant Mercies sponsorships. It is an outstanding ministry and one I’m thrilled we get to partner with.

Then on my last day in Zambia, I got to open their Youth Conference, made up of young people from CCC, as well as their friends. As they camped out at a farm, it was so good to see and hear of their zeal for the Lord. It was a wonderful conclusion to my time in Zambia.

I then made my way to Namibia, where I was picked up by Josh Kruger (Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Windhoek). Josh & Lieze Kruger have lived in Windhoek for many years, relating to Sovereign Grace for well over a decade, and back in 2023 they actually relocated to the US for a year of training, discipleship and our ordination process. After a successful time in the US, they then returned to Windhoek in early 2024, where they have begun to gather a Church Planting Team together, that I then got to spend time with during my time in town.

For me personally, it took me down memory lane, to when Emma and I moved from the UK to Australia to plant Sovereign Grace Church, Sydney, back in 2010. Now in 2024, it was so special to be with Josh, Lieze and the gathering planting team.

With lots of questions and a keen ear, it was good to be able to serve Josh as he continues to put the necessary foundations in ahead of the public launch of Sovereign Grace Church, Windhoek. Josh is an outstanding leader and I sincerely look forward to seeing what God does in and through this Church in the days ahead. From everything I saw, I’d say the future looks very bright here, for which the Lord deserves all the glory.

For the Audience of One. Soli Deo Gloria!

An update from Pat Tedeschi, Pastor in Greentree Church, Egg Harbor, USA, and soon-to-be Pastor in London, UK…

Last month Greentree Church in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, sent a short-term missions team to work with the Oasis International Church in London, England. The team was led by myself and was made up of five other members from three different Sovereign Grace churches; Deb Subin and Kappy Huber from Greentree Church, NJ, James Wolstenholme, elder at Mercy Gate Church in Philadelphia, PA and Phil and Scarlett Cornell from Cornerstone Church in Knoxville, TN.

For the last 18 years, Greentree has been partnering with the Oasis Church and its founding pastor Randy Lawler. Randy and his wife Margie have headed up a work of evangelism and church planting among Muslims in London for the last 47 years. I have had the privilege of being closely associated with the Lawlers and the Oasis Church for more than two decades. 

For a number of years now the elders and members of Greentree Church have been praying for others who would come alongside the Lawlers to help them with this work. 

Pastor of Oasis Church, Randy Lawler and his wife Margie.

The Lawlers are in their late 70’s now and are no longer able to develop the work any further on their own. A few years ago, my wife Dana and I, began talking and praying seriously about the potential of making a full-time move to London to work with Randy and Margie and the church there. 

We presented this to the other elders at Greentree, to our region in the Northeast, and to Sovereign Grace’s Global Missions Director, Dave Taylor. All of them affirmed and supported us in this idea, including the goal of seeing the Oasis Church become adopted into our family of churches and other SG churches planted from there.  

You may ask, "why London?".  There are over 350 languages spoken in London, along with dozens of religions practiced there. There are over 9 million people there, and over 1.3 million of those people are from Muslim backgrounds. And then there are over 3 million others from Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Jewish, and secular/atheist European backgrounds.

Much of the world is represented in this one city! A significant percentage of these are from the least-evangelized people groups in the world. So there is a significant opportunity to bring the Gospel to many who have had little or no opportunity to hear a clear teaching of the message of Jesus Christ.

An Oasis Church worship service.

At this point the Oasis Church is made up of primarily Iranian refugees who have left Islam and converted to Christianity. Randy and I have a vision to see the outreach of the church extend to many other nationalities and people groups that are in the community of the church.

Lord willing, Myself and Dana are hoping to move to London in January 2025, where I will be a pastor along with Randy and will be involved in preaching and teaching, leadership development, and growing areas of outreach and discipleship. Dana will be involved in areas of women’s ministry, hospitality, and worship. 

For the last six months, Randy and I, along with our SG Europe Area Leader - Ed O’Mara, have been working to plan and strategize to get us there and to carry out this ministry vision for the Oasis Church. 

Iranian believers sharing their testimonies before being baptized.

The apostle Paul wrote, "How will they call on him whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?" (Romans 10:14).

For years this verse has preoccupied my thoughts, prayers, and ministry. Although there are faithful gospel preaching churches in London, there are still millions of the least-evangelized people groups who have not yet heard the Gospel. We are so excited to be in a family of churches that wants to be a part of reaching these people groups!

As we prepare to go, we would so appreciate your prayers, with three primary prayer requests in mind:

1. That the Lord will provide visas to move there.

2. That the Lord would provide all of the finances that we need to live and develop the church ministry.

3. That the Lord would bring others who might be willing to come and join us in this work.

If you would like to receive updates on the ministry of the Tedeschis in London, you can click here.

Pat and Dana Tedeschi from Greentree Church, New Jersey.

An update from Carlos Contreras, Lead Pastor of Sovereign Grace Church, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and National Leader for SGC Mexico...

God’s grace was again manifest in our recent Fieles Pastors and Leaders Conference in Juárez, Mexico. As in past years, our goal of serving Latin American leaders by preaching on biblical themes relevant to helping us serve our Lord faithfully in ministry was wonderfully accomplished. Our theme this year was “The Pastor’s Call to a Godly Life” with the participation of our guest speakers that included Dr. Mike Bullmore from Kenosha, WI and Pastor Juan Sanchez from Austin, TX who served us well by preaching and teaching a workshop each. We also had our own Executive Director, Mark Prater who preached a very encouraging message on "The Praying Pastor" and Jeff Purswell who opened and closed our conference with two excellent and challenging messages. 

I am amazed by the number of our attendees who have made coming to our Fieles Conference a yearly occurrence, but whom are not pastors of a Sovereign Grace church. Some have mentioned to me that they consider their time here as a yearly retreat, returning home refreshed and encouraged. This is one reason why this conference exists, not just to equip national pastors from our own family of churches, but also to give by grace to others, what we have received by grace so richly over the years. So many leaders throughout the world have never experienced the grace, encouragement and teaching that we have been so graciously gifted by Christ for decades! Fieles is a means for Sovereign Grace to give to others from the abundance of our legacy.

One highlight of our time was the launching of the newest Spanish Sovereign Grace Music worship album, Conocer a Dios, which is the Spanish version of the recent Knowing God album in English. Fabrizio Rodulfo who serves alongside Bob Kauflin in Sovereign Grace Music, gave a wonderful introduction to the album and we were able to teach and sing several songs from the new album during our worship sessions. SG Music in Spanish is one of the most powerful means that God is using to allow Sovereign Grace to bless and serve the Spanish speaking world with the gifts with which he has blessed us for so many years. It is having a very broad and amazing impact throughout Latin America. 

We also took the opportunity on Saturday to ordain two new pastors from Gracia Soberana Ciudad Juarez. Edgar Flores, a recent graduate of the SG Pastors College and Cuauhtemoc Campos who has served now for several years as our executive pastor, were ordained the day after the conference with the participation of local pastors as well as Mike Bullmore and Mark Prater. This was a wonderful local celebration with many guests that stayed over from the conference.

We have made the decision to not host a Fieles Conference in 2025. This will allow us to take a whole year to pray, evaluate and plan for the future as we also try other events and venues to serve the many churches spread out in Sovereign Grace Mexico. We ask that you pray for direction and wisdom for our National Leadership team as we consider these plans. We hope that by doing this, we will be more effective in serving present and future leaders in our country as well as in others.

Soli Deo Gloria!

An update from Josh Montague, SGC Pastoral Candidate at Cross of Grace Church, Chaska, USA, and Director of Expository Training at Training Leaders International…

In early September, Greg Dirnberger (Sioux Falls, SD) and I, traveled with five other instructors to a conference center southeast of Manila to train 30 Filipino pastors and pastors-to-be in understanding and communicating Scripture.

Half of this group is affiliated with Sovereign Grace and thus shares a central value of expository preaching, meaning that the message of the sermon should be the message of the biblical text. As SG continues to expand in the Philippines, the need for pastors who faithfully preach the gospel of Jesus Christ from any part of the Scriptures also grows. Dave York (Roseburg, OR), Dave Taylor (Director of Global Missions), and others have invested hundreds of hours in training these pastors theologically and many have now been ordained as elders. Yet further training in biblical interpretation and communication is necessary as these men seek to faithfully lead the church in the Philippines.

The first of nine courses taught in partnership with Training Leaders International, where I serve as the Director of Expository Training, is entitled ‘Knowing God, Scripture, and Ourselves.’ Three of the highly interactive lessons in this course cover the nature of the Scriptures: (a) their trustworthiness and authority, (b) their diversity (different styles of writing, different time periods, different authors, etc.), and (c) their unity in pointing to the reconciling work of Jesus from Genesis through Revelation.

One pastor is scheduled to preach Exodus 30 in his church later this year. Early in the week, discussion began regarding how this passage full of taxation codes and rules about tabernacle furnishings for Israel’s worship could possibly point to Jesus. It’s not obvious or simple, but as we discussed Israel’s worship, the holiness of God, and the surprising access granted to his people through the sacrificial worship in the tabernacle, some themes and ideas began to emerge. Jesus (God-in-flesh) also displays God’s holiness. Jesus also shows God’s desire for relationship with his wayward people. Jesus ultimately provides the sacrifice necessary for that reconciled relationship through his death. Israel’s relationship with God was a foreshadowing of a better, permanent, once-for-all sacrifice. This pastor will now be joyfully and confidently preaching Christ from Exodus 30 in a few weeks!

That’s just the start of this training. Eight more courses will continue this December and every 2-3 months for the next two and a half years. I will be joined in each of these trips by a pastor in the Midwest-Northwest region. And Lord willing, the effects will spread even further! These Filipino pastors, many of whom flew in from other islands like Mindanao, Cebu, and Negros, will take what they’ve learned and train other church leaders in their areas.

Please keep this expository training in your prayers. Pray that the skills learned will enable them to faithfully preach Christ from all of Scripture. Pray also that the transformative power of God’s word shapes their lives, their familles, and their churches. Finally, pray that a rich culture of biblical preaching and teaching will continue developing among Filipino (and American) pastors as these men train and study together over the next few years.

Thanks to the generosity of the Sovereign Grace Asia-Pacific Development Fund and the Midwest-Northwest region for making this training possible.

Dr. Joshua Montague (D.I.S., Western Seminary) has served with Training Leaders International for the last ten years and lives in Carver, MN where his family is part of Cross of Grace Church. To read more about Josh’s work in training global pastors, you can subscribe to his newsletter at https://joshmontague.epistle.org/subscribe or email him at josh.montague@trainingleadersinternational.org

Class of 2024 students with their wives (Left to right: Richard and Claudia Rodriguez, Nick and Jenna Richardson, Gil and Melanie Balch, Emerson and Tati Soares, Arturo and Sara De La Fuente, Mario and Diana Figueroa).

An update from Jeff Purswell, Director of Theology for Sovereign Grace Churches and Dean of the US Pastors College.

If you had wandered past the Pastors College classroom just a few months ago, you likely would have detected a medley of English, Spanish, and Portuguese echoing from our Louisville, Kentucky location. The “US” Pastors College hosted its most global class to date, the class of 2024, which graduated in June. Two of the six students traveled to us from outside the United States (Mexico and Brazil), while two of the four Americans hailed from Spanish-speaking backgrounds. And yet, despite the vast diversity of background and culture, these six men and their families formed a tight partnership and brotherhood that vividly displayed the gospel’s unifying power.  

Class of 2024 students enjoying some fun and games.

I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen a PC class bond more quickly than these six students. Laughter filled the classroom from orientation day to graduation, and these men opened up their lives and hearts to one another from the very beginning. What a privilege it was to watch them link arms together, diving headlong into a year of rigorous theological study and discipleship, all for the purpose of fruitful gospel ministry.

Class of 2024 PC wives event.

Equally impressive were their wives. It was the first time we’ve ever brought in translators for our monthly PC wives’ meetings, and we needed two translators each time — one for Spanish and one for Portuguese! All the wives radiated exceptional courage and sacrifice over the year, which in God’s kindness, produced a harvest of godly fellowship and growth.

We witnessed deep friendships form across cultures as these families cared for one another throughout the year. It was not uncommon on a Sunday morning to see the bilingual PC kids translating for those who only knew Spanish, as they all played with children from Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville. The PC families gathered every month for a potluck, sharing dishes from home, playing games, and building memories.

C.J. Mahaney addressing the class of 2024.

And yet, it wasn’t mere friendship that bonded these families together. All the hard work of intentionally pressing through cultural and linguistic barriers was motivated by one all-encompassing, eternal factor: their shared unity in Christ, given as a precious gift through our Savior’s work on the cross. It was this blood-bought unity that made Graduation day — always bittersweet — especially poignant. We were made deeply aware that God Himself had brought this PC class together, not only to display the unifying power of the gospel but to equip these men for faithful ministry in different corners of His harvest.

Welcoming the Australian PC families when they arrived in Louisville on August 8 (class of 2025).

Please pray for these graduates, as they labor joyfully back at their home churches in Brazil, in Mexico, and throughout the United States. And please be praying for our current class of students as well, representing yet more international investment, with two Australians joining our seven American students. We long for this season of intense study and training to produce in them an ever-deepening hunger for God’s Word, a steady growth in joy and godliness, and a robust, enduring partnership for many years of fruitful labor in our churches.     

PC Class of 2025 (Left to right — Back: Austin Loke, Mikey Roman, Leyton Adams, Titus Miller, Asher Donohue. Front: Zach Taylor, Joel Seric, Erik Schmaltz, Brayden Peterson).

John Piper famously writes,

            ‘Missions is not the ultimate goal of the church. Worship is. Missions exists because worship doesn’t. Worship is ultimate, not missions, because God is ultimate, not man. When this age is over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces before the throne of God, millions will be no more. It is a temporary necessity. But worship abides forever.’

I believe Mr Piper is right. Missions exist because so many people in our neighbourhoods and nations have yet to receive their invites to the incredible marriage supper of the Lamb. And in His incredible kindness, He’s entrusted us with the privilege of giving out those invites, to every tribe, language and nation.

We’re eager then to keep giving out the invites, and so here’s how you can be praying for us in the month ahead…

1. Pray that God would give the members and pastors of Sovereign Grace churches opportunities to share the gospel with unbelievers in our communities, workplaces and on our campuses over this next month.

2. Pray for Pat Tedeschi and Greentree Church’s Short-Term Missions Team as they head to London, UK, to work with Oasis International  Church, 13th-23rd September. The team will be involved with leading church services, youth events, small group discipleship, neighbourhood evangelism, and building relationships with the church members. Greentree has partnered with Oasis Church for the past 18 years, with the work primarily involving outreach to Muslims and the least evangelised people groups in London. Please pray for much grace and favour for this trip.

3. Pray for the Philippine Pastors Institute as they restart up again for another academic year, starting on September 21st, then meeting every Saturday for the next nine months. There are 14 students currently registered for the school, covering basic biblical theology, and the Sovereign Grace seven shared values. It’s the hope that through PPI Sovereign Grace Philippines, in particular in the Mindanao region, will continue to be faithful in the gospel for many generations to come.

4. Pray for Sovereign Grace Church of Parramatta as they celebrate their 5th Anniversary on Sunday 15th September, and Lord’s Grace Church of Seoul as the celebrate their 14th Anniversary on Sunday September 8th. May they know the Lord’s smile on them as they look back and remember His goodness to them over these years.

5. Pray for Trinity Fellowship Pastors College in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, as they celebrate the graduation of nine students this month. Please pray for each of the students as they consider next steps beyond the PC, and for Josh Pannell and Michael Granger as they continue to move this wonderful work forward. The Lord is doing great things through this Pastors College.

6. Please continue to pray for the Ark Church in Dnipro, Ukraine asking God to continue to protect them, and to use them to meet practical needs, and to offer gospel hope to those around them who have been impacted by the war. There are so many coming to them now, so may His grace abound.

... Thanks friends. May we do all we can to keep giving out these invites.