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Would You Pray for Christine’s Dad?          I (Christine) will be traveling from this weekend to next to care for and support my parents in Palo Alto as my dad, Bob Bowen, will have heart surgery to replace a valve. He noticed something wasn’t right before Christmas and now his surgery is…

           A Happy New Year to you! We have been busy getting ready for the Spring Semester at IGSL which starts this Monday so we wanted to let you know of a few timely and important prayer requests that capture a lot of what we have been navigating spiritually and in our…

                     Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours!  In so many of our celebrations of Christmas, we can sometimes miss or forget that the incarnation was an expression of God on a global mission (Jn 3:16). Christ came as part of God’s plan to…

        There were points in the apostle Peter’s life and ministry where he resisted extending the gospel to others (Gal 2, Acts 10), until God made the gospel more clear. It is for me, us, and “them.” One of the ways we most often resist extending the good news of the gospel…

        We’ve  asked you to pray for Silas as well, a PhD Candidate in our Peace Studies program at IGSL. I am his advisor – my first official time advising! Silas is a Cru staff member in Cameroon and serves as a national leader with Athletes and Action throughout Africa.  He was not…

       We’ve been asking you to pray for Raymond, one of our IGSL Faculty, for some time as I’ve been coaching him in his dissertation.  HE DID IT!!!!!    Raymond faced extreme adversity in his doctoral journey, which is why I coached and shepherded him for almost 2 YEARS! But it was so fun…

           We’ve been asking you to pray for Raymond who has faced an uphill battle in his dissertation journey…BUT…he submitted it to Talbot School of Theology in full this past week!!! This is so encouraging for us and for Raymond and IGSL. Raymond has developed a really interesting model of how…

      I shared some of what transpired in a recent post, but a highlight for me (Brian) this past week was to be at the Evangelical Theological Society’s Annual Conference that was held this year in San Diego with the overall theme of Global Christianity. Several of our faculty presented papers there. It was such a joy…