It’s time for our annual theme, a tradition we started eight years ago when we launched Completion Global. The basic premise of our ministry has been to encourage innovation for the Great Commission, to help the worldwide Church connect with each other to get the job done as Jesus prophesied in Matthew 24:14: “this gospel of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come.” We are thrilled whenever we see the fruit of

Three years ago, Cathy and I met with two colleagues to strategize ways to produce more indigenous leaders in the America’s prisons. We were saddened to hear them tell us, “we don’t want to hear what you have to say.” As we reeled from the impact of this response, we sought the Lord for a confirmation of His calling and wisdom for our next steps. From this experience, The Empowerment Network was born. The Empowerment Network is not an organization, but a nationwide group of l

Last year Cathy and I visited our colleague and friend Matt Thomas, who coaches the church inside Lansing Prison (Kansas). During the worship service one of the Lansing church leaders exhorted the members to share their faith on the yard. As Cathy looked around saw a few perplexed faces, seeming to say, “I’m not sure how to do that.” On the way home, Cathy said, “You know how missions agencies send people overseas to teach indigenous leaders to tell Bible stories for evangeli

Watch this remarkable report from a former Prisoners for Christ TUMI student and now Mongolian pastor! https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1178583554

We met Mark Walker and Quentin Valdois over 10 years ago when they were looking for a Bible training program for men and women in prison who were serving as leaders for the Church on the inside. Since then, they have become cherished partners with us at Completion Global, guiding and teaching us from their experience in prison ministry. When we wrote the Onesimus Workshop in 2018, they were the ones who reviewed our work for real-life accuracy, and helped us re-frame much of

Every January we prepare a review of the previous year, re-visiting our purpose, vision, values, and accomplishments to give praise to God for His work that includes your prayers and giving. 1. We started a cohort of prison ministers across the country to share best practices and we now have 20 people from nine states in the cohort. 2. We visited Prisoners for Christ in Washington and shared ideas about expanding their in-prison disciplemaking programs, which has now extended

DEFCON is an alert system that describes five graduated levels of military readiness, where level 5 is a peacetime mentality, and level 1 is the most heightened state of imminent danger. In 2009, I published Jesus Cropped from the Picture as a call to move from a spiritual peacetime mentality (like DEFCON 5) to a wartime footing (like DEFCON 4). But recent reports and personal experiences now prompt me to raise our alert level to DEFCON 3. People are coming to Christ in gre

Our annual theme is “Making the Case,” where our focus is on helping various groups understand the hidden asset we have in the indigenous Church in America’s prisons. We are working to help four different groups understand this potential: 1) The prisoners themselves; 2) people who go into prison to do ministry from the outside; 3) churches who can welcome the formerly incarcerated into their communities; 4) missions organizations who are looking for qualified missionaries to

Missio Nexus is a networking organization that “catalyzes relationships, ideas and collaboration within the Great Commission Community.” They host an annual conference for people to catch up on what is happening in world missions. Last month, I attended with Quentin Valdois, a special advisor to our Completion Global board, and who is doing great work among the incarcerated, empowering the indigenous church inside prisons. Quentin and I enjoyed several conversations about the

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Sometimes we get to see the fruit of our labor. About 10 years ago Cathy and I started visiting prisons every month, sitting in TUMI...

Every January we prepare a review of the previous year, re-visiting our purpose, vision, values, and accomplishments so we can stay...

One of the most exciting developments in the Kingdom of God is coming from a place most people would find surprising: America’s prisons....

Thanksgiving night was one of the happiest events of our lives. It started three weeks earlier, when we visited the men in Lansing...