Do you ever look around, look back, and evaluate where you are in life? We’re often too caught up in busy-ness to see our surroundings. Still your heart today and take some time to consider these simple questions. Discuss them with a friend, journal, or pray your responses to God. Doug Lucas, president of Team… Read more »
Imagine a football stadium full of people. Thousands upon thousands of people blur together in the stands, focused on the handful of players on the faraway field. Most are just watching, spectators only. Now “imagine a stadium where everybody’s playing.” That’s the image that Eric Derry, vice president of Team Expansion, asks us to consider.… Read more »
Eric Derry cares deeply not only for his local community, but also for the world at large. His work as vice president of Team Expansion involves mobilizing people to get involved in the global church, so when Eric discovered the Prayer.Global tool, he got excited. Eric called his friend Chris, who encouraged him to create… Read more »
In 2 Kings 6, the situation was dire for Samaria. The Arameans had besieged the city for so long that a donkey’s head sold for 80 pounds of silver. Citizens ate bird’s dung—and even their own children. Four lepers crouched at the city gate. “They said to each other, ‘Why stay here until we die?’”… Read more »
“Jesus told us to ask the Lord of the Harvest to raise up harvesters,” Doug Lucas says, referencing Matt. 9:37–38. “I’ve dedicated my life to that, and Eric has, too.” Doug Lucas and Eric Derry lead Team Expansion, dedicated to multiplying and mobilizing disciples. “You’re mobilizing people to engage in—that’s part of the magic of… Read more »
In Bible college in 1978, Doug Lucas read 52 different passages of Scripture for a required course. “It changed my life, changed my major, and I’ve been in missions ever since,” he says. Doug’s calling lead to his service in leadership of Team Expansion, a missions mobilization organization, alongside his friend Eric Derry. The pair… Read more »
You may have heard Zúme’s goal to “make disciples who make disciples.” A critical part of that divine multiplication is coaching believers in how to multiply, following up on them, supporting them, and strengthening them along the way. “Follow up and relationship and development help[s] people catch the vision,” says Jacob,* an American supporting the… Read more »
Evangelism in Myanmar used to look drastically different. A Burmese brother in Christ shares that the traditional approach involved sharing the gospel only once, “and then follow up never.” After sharing or just distributing gospel tracts, they thought, “our responsibility is done.” Follow-up, discipleship, and community building never occurred to them. “I did not have… Read more »
When Molly told her husband, “What if we started a church or movement online? That’s where the young professionals live, after all,” she meant it as a joke. The couple had just moved to Denver, and when the Covid lockdown began, they looked at their idea with new eyes. Neither of them even had an… Read more »
It’s 1985, and Doug Lucas is preparing to teach at a Bible college. He comes across a statistic in the little textbook that he uses for his class: 1 million people in the world are refugees. 1 million people in the world are on the run. “I wept in my heart,” he says, and decided… Read more »
