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The Amplifier, Transforming Lives
It had been quite a while since I had met with “The Chef.”* I wasn’t sure what to expect. This is a young man who accepted Christ early in 2017. As it turns out, God had The Chef on quite a journey. In the previous months, he had been sent to Africa as a cultural...
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Advancing Church, The Amplifier
The adjacent villages of Xhafzotaj and Rrashbull have always been just a short bus ride from Durres; they just haven’t always been on our radar. But when a man from Xhafzotaj visited our weekly worship time, we made a new friend from that small town. Then a family,...
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Amplified Leaders, The Amplifier
Asbury Theological Seminary offers congratulations to Alfred Kalembo, recently chosen as the Seminary’s Distinguished Alumnus 2018. Kalembo, 57, was born in a remote village in Zambia to parents who were never able to attend school. He walked four miles, barefoot, to...
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Amplified Prayer, The Amplifier
Praying in slow response areas is something akin to paying into retirement in your 20s. It may look and feel unimportant at the time—after all, there is no obvious benefit . . . for the moment. We must be convinced that our monthly payments are not disappearing into...