Power changed hands this past weekend at the end of the ECWA USA DCC 2-day council meeting held at ECWA Church District Heights Maryland. 1. Rev. Sunday Bwanhot took over as the Chairman of the DCC 2. Rev. Philologus Irukera as the Assistant Secretary 3. Dr. James Auta as the Treasurer We thank God for bringing these fresh minds aboard […]

Prayer: In SIM Ministry Sung Lee prayed, “Lord, what do you want us to do? You took our first daughter. Now our second daughter says she does not have strength to go on. Do you want us to leave the mission field and go help her? Even if we go to her, how can we fix her problem?” Night after […]

ALGERIA with AFP, AP A jubilant crowd gathered at the International stadium in Algiers on Friday night to celebrate another African Cup of Nations win. Algerian football fans wore the colors of their national flag, green, white and red to make merry. “We won! Thanks be to God. God willing we will have the same result in 2022. I hope […]

Congratulations! If you are a new believer, you have just experienced the beginning of your new, eternal life (John 3:16; 10:10). Your sins have been forgiven and you have been given a fresh start (Romans 4:7). You have now been given inexpressible, glorious joy (1 Peter 1:8-9). In addition to the wonderful blessings of knowing Christ, you are probably thinking, […]

A congregation I once served opened their building monthly for a Narcotics Anonymous group. The relationship was conflict-free until a parishioner discovered a pill on the fellowship hall floor and called the police. An analysis determined it wasn’t an illegal substance, but the congregation harbored concerns: “What if a young child had picked up the pill and it was an […]

The political scene is drawing toward the center of our national consciousness (if it ever left) as Democratic presidential debates take place and the 2020 election nears. As this process happens, faithful Catholics need sound ways to think about candidates, policies, and the landscape in general. Josef Pieper, a great twentieth-century philosopher, provides a broad but excellent definition of politics: […]

“Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary your wife, or that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Spirit; She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” Gospel of Matthew 1:20-21 This took place in Bethany beyond the Jordan, where John was […]

They say Jesus could walk on water, and turn water into wine. Many have postulated that he was a yogi, with siddha powers. That he must have learned it in a Hindu or Buddhist monastery in India during his missing years. This yoga-of-power is very different from the popular, and sanitised, yoga-for-fitness of the global village, or the yoga-for-devotion of […]

Come, follow me, Jesus said, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matt. 4:19 Everyone of us has one or several people in our lives that we respect and will do whatever they tell us to do. Such people may be our parents, spouses, children, best friends, spiritual leaders, bosses at work, etc. A relationship must already exist between […]

When I was in my late teens, early twenties, I was very interested in learning more about connecting with myself and finding myself. I wanted to find out about deeper and higher levels of consciousness, so I could connect with who I truly was. I wanted to connect with the universe and the power that it held. I knew it […]