Pastoral Visit #2 South Sudan

J+j with the South Sudan team
(below-Johnny with the base leader,
Augustine, in Yei)

After our amazing time in South Africa we headed to see our next DTS outreach team, led by Esther Rich and Lindsay Cartensen, in South Sudan. This country was formerly part of Sudan but is now independent; it actually just became a nation in [...]

Community Transformations, South Africa

Johnny’s sister Beth and her husband Jeff (and their three boys, Elijah, Carter, and ‘Riah) live in Cape Town, South Africa and we stayed with them while we were there visiting our Community Transformations DTS outreach team. Jeff and Beth and a group of friends are pioneering a few different initiatives in the [...]

More from South Africa

Four years ago when Johnny and I led an outreach team to South Africa we met a young guy named James who had recently moved to Masiphumelele. Johnny got to know him, his story, how he had moved there from Malawi, and he also led him to Jesus. Throughout our time there in 2008, Johnny [...]

Pastoral Visit #1 South Africa

We currently have 9 outreach teams from the Community Transformations DTS in 8 locations all over the world: Cambodia, Japan, Nepal, Jordan, New York City, South Sudan, Mozambique, and South Africa. It has been an amazing privilege to travel around the globe and visit them! Johnny and I will visit 6 teams, and our friend [...]

We Are in Japan

Hi Everyone!
Just want to say hello from Tokyo. I am going to be posting a few updates here, but it might be confusing because they will be from previous weeks before I get caught up and am able to post what is current. I just have so many things to write about from South Africa, [...]

A Day Documented: South Africa

Sorry I haven’t posted anything in, uh, forever. We have been full speed ahead for quite some time while leading this DTS, and I slacked on the blogging. We are in South Africa now, and I’ve had some more down time lately. Hence, I am able to post something new here!
We are staying with our [...]

Comm Trans DTS – we’re getting ready for the fall!!!

Little video that we posted the other day!

Circuit Riders-wanna listen?

We just welcomed hundreds of people to our Kona campus this past week. Literally, hundreds. Men and women that are hungry. They’re hungry for God, and for His Kingdom to come. It’s going to be a life-changing summer, and movements will be catalyzed by the students involved here this summer, who are so in love [...]

Summer in Kona

Hello! Just another quick post about what’s going on here in Kona. We are now in the middle of a full week of Staff Training, getting ready to staff the School of the Circuit Riders which begins here next Thursday. So far there are 275 students accepted. It’s a five-week seminar focused on [...]

94 days, and counting

It’s hard to believe that it’s only 94 days until the Community Transformations DTS begins here in Kona. I never understand how it happens but time seems to go by faster and faster. Regardless of how awe-inspiring I find this phenomenon, I can’t stop to ponder it for too long because the fall quarter is [...]