Author: Shalem John
Latino evangelicals in the US are reaching the unchurched and drawing in converts despite funding shortfalls, widespread community fear, and other challenges caused by the federal government’s immigration crackdown. Lifeway Research said in a new study—which surveyed leaders at 292 new Hispanic church plants, campus sites, and other ministries—that the average new Hispanic congregation almost tripled in size (from 31 to 85) within eight years of its founding and saw 10 conversions its first year before reaching 15 per year down the line. Most protestant churches in the US reached fewer new people in the past year. It’s common for…
Ninety-two-year-old Julius Wafula lives in an old, rusty-iron-roofed mud house in Bungoma County, Kenya. Nearby, amid avocado trees and banana plantations, a new seven-bedroom house that he built for his children and grandchildren stands empty. Before his wife, Mary, died in 2018, Wafula’s children visited often out of love for her. Now they rarely come. Sibling quarrels and broken relationships with their father have split them apart. Wafula has felt increasingly lonely and isolated since his wife’s death. He regrets being drunk and violent when his 12 children were growing up, and he recognizes that his neglect as a father…
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