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

Click on the image below to hear a recent podcast Don did on The Ministry Growth Show, reporting an exciting development in the Kingdom...

Watch this video from Dee Peterson at Prisoners for Christ in Washington and hear about her work to train the incarcerated using the...

Eighteen months ago, we helped a group of ministry leaders in Portland start the PDX Diaspora Coalition. Watch this video that explains...

Each year on the anniversary of Completion Global, we select an annual theme. This year, it is “Making the Case” in 4 arenas. Across...

Wait till you hear this story! This month Cathy and I were at the Correctional Ministries and Chaplains Association Summit in Orlando. We...

In 2016, a group of us from The Urban Ministry Institute travelled to Thailand for a gathering of world leaders to focus on training...

In this season leading to Easter, we remember Jesus’ command to deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Him (Mt. 16:24). I’ve...

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...

Cathy and I are reading “Knowing Jesus through the Old Testament” together and I found a stunning quote from Christopher Wright: “We have...

Last September Cathy started encouraging me to write a second edition of Think Again , a book I wrote in 2018 to help people participate...

In the book Think Again , author Don Allsman provides practical ways to replace false thinking, which has been ingrained into our toxic...

Don: I'm delighted to have a good partner in ministry here today, John Yoder, the founder of Immigrant Ministry Connections. He has...

I am delighted to share the news that I had an article published this month in Evangelical Mission Quarterly. Unfortunately, it is...