A team of nine leaves on Saturday, October 27 for our first official partner trip to Guatemala. After over two years of listening and discerning, we are excited to deepen our relationships with our new friends in Guatemala and learn more about the ways that they are being used for God's glory...
CityServe Weekend is getting closer and closer, but there may still be some questions about what it looks like to be a part of this weekend. Tuesday, October 2 - Leadership Gathering For the past few years, hundreds of Senior Pastors have gathered to come together and look to Mayor...
Malacatan, Guatemala, is a small town close to the border between Mexico and Guatemala—about 15 minutes from the El Carmen border crossing. Yearly, tens of thousands of migrants from all over Central America are deported to this area by Mexican authorities. Large buses cross the bridge...
Schools are back in session, the fall season is creeping in on the summer weather and schedules, and football fans are anxiously awaiting their favorite time of year. In addition to all of that, we are less than seven weeks away from another CityServe Weekend. So, why participate in...
Our Mongolian Conference team will soon be back from their time deepening relationships and entering into the incredible ways God is moving and working in Mongolia. The team has been busy attending a wedding, worshiping at a church plant and enjoying a traditional Mongolian barbecue given...
Family Life Services - A Safe Harbor for Transformation Family Life Services is now full swing into their 76th year of continuous service. Founded as the Christian Home for Children in 1942 in the Ivywild neighborhood, they now provide a safe, faith-based community to pursue healing...
If you come to First Pres Monday through Thursday mornings, you can see and hear refugees in our building taking steps towards integrating into their new home by learning English. Their children ages 0-5 are cared for in our nursery. During the summer, school-aged kids need a place to be loved...
Don Wallace, one of the team members that is in Mongolia to celebrate 20 years of the Campus Crusade for Christ teachers ministry, shares about spending time with the Mongolian Home Builders groups, a recipient of the 2018 Give Back the Blessing. Friday night in Ulaanbaatar, I was...
Gerelmaa Batkhuyag (Gerlee) is part of Mongolia Campus Crusade for Christ. She and her family are here in the United States and at First Pres so that she can complete her Master's degree in Biblical Counseling and return to Mongolia to help bring hope and healing to families...
As a young person at Fuller Seminary, I took a theology class with the late Dr. Ray Anderson. He was a thoughtful theologian and a gentle practitioner of his faith. I was a twenty-something finding my way in ministry and learning to more deeply hear the voice of God in my life. Those...