Download the PDF version here Peter Thompson’s most enduring memory from his August 2012 trip to Ireland won’t be of castles or clover fields or folk music. Thompson (’12) instead will think back on the Reformers Unanimous meeting he attended in Bray, and his conversation with an Irishman who fully realized how much he needed [...]
Luis Fonseca: New Life, New Goals
In the eyes of many young men, Luis Fonseca had it all. Then he lost it all. Now Fonseca has a chance to gain something more valuable than he might ever have imagined. “Luis is uniquely gifted through his size, athleticism, personality, and being trilingual,” said Brad Stille (’94), pastor of First Baptist Church of [...]
Church Planting Conference Explores Vital Ministry
Mark Brooks is convinced of the need to train and encourage church planters. “It needs to be an emphasis,” Brooks said. “It needs to be a huge emphasis.” Brooks (’90), pastor of the four-year-old Heritage Baptist Church of Cedarburg, WI, was one of four guest speakers for the first Maranatha Church Planting Conference. The Oct. [...]
Argentina Missions Team Provides Music, Ministry
Click here to download photos from Team Argentina 2012 Maranatha’s Global Encounters program was able to send 18 students, faculty, and staff members to Argentina this summer to minister with missionaries Ron and Christine Self in Buenos Aires. “It was an amazing trip,” graduate student Carl Conrad said of the team’s three-week stay. Graduate student [...]
Ireland Team Aids Missionaries
Click here to download photos from Team Ireland 2012 Londonderry, Ireland, once the home of radical political reformers, was visited by a much different group of reformers in August—Maranatha’s Global Encounters team. The eight-member team spent the first 1 1/2 weeks of the three-week trip with missionary Travis Snode in Northern Ireland. The students provided [...]