"Get some cooked rice" I said to John, 12yo as we prepared some chicken soup together. He helped sliced some veggies, ginger and string onions. "There's no cooked rice." He said as he check out the rice cooker. "Do you know how to cook rice?" "No" was his reply. "Come...

When we have a 'schedule' to have fellowship with other believes that means we don't have other believers living with us everyday. I encourage you invite others to do 'yahshab' to other believers than just do a quick 2-hour meeting. 'Yahshab' is the Hebrew word for...

One new disciple, 24yo, is living daily with us and doing things together like cooking, gardening, making tables and chairs and other community projects to serve orphans and widows and the poor around us. People, specially younger ones needed to be told what they...

On being a brother (sister) to each other... It’s 10:03pm, just got back from an hour swim in the beach with some brothers. As I walk on the shoreline towards the deep waters my son Mike, 7yo and John, 12yo starts holding each other’s hands. It’s actually my son who...

"Relational communities cannot be "organized", they cannot be bought with money. They cannot be created by gifting. They come out of death to self, out of humility to serve and wait upon people." - Stephen W Hill Filipino's have communities. When I ask Rad Zdero about...

John Lou, 12yo. Is reading his bible every morning in front of Albert. He was once selling beers and cigarettes for someone at the cockpit arena nearby here. Getting $1 a day. While his older brother starts working here the Saints decided to get him also. They both...

"Discipleship" in today's implications is based solely on 'teachings.' Teaching for a purpose of having the 'right doctrine' that leads to more mere knowledge about God. Example, on Discipleship Lesson 3: Prayer. But teaching a group about prayer doesn't lead them to...

Church doesn't have to look like 'church' with a steeple, a service or someone's preaching at the people. We have had a lot of those already around and honestly it's enough. Enough enough that Christians can hop in to church-to-church buildings of their choice, a...

We are commanded to 'make followers' not 'train leaders.' When Peter ask Jesus about being a 'follower,' what he's got is a simple answer 'You follow Me.' (Jn.21:15-22). 'Equipping' is developing people learn how to serve, as in the command to 'serve one...