The Legacy of Ann Bolden
As old men often do, I’ve been reminiscing about how I’ve spent my life over the last 50 years, the impact my life has had on Messiah’s Kingdom, and the part my wife, Ann, played in those Kingdom accomplishments. You see, my wife of 51 years, 8 months, and 11 days, passed away on Thanksgiving Day, November 24, 2022 at 6:00 PM, after a 3-year battle with colorectal cancer. During those 51 years, we resided in three foreign countries, learned two languages, and raised three daughters. That covers 30 of our 51 years together.
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Leaving a Legacy in Zambia
In 2006, at the age of 60, Richard Myers went on his first mission trip with a medical missions team to Africa. He’d witnessed many missionaries and ministers travel abroad over the years, but never quite felt the tug to go on a mission himself until later in life. Myers sat quietly for most of the trip, watching more than participating, until one of the team leaders, David French, asked him to come see the farm on the property.
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Transformations
Many times in scripture, we see God testing and purifying the hearts and minds of believers to accomplish His work through them. Often this process occurs over the course of many years, well before the person begins the task God was preparing them for. It’s difficult to describe how and when the “vision” of Transformations started. We can look back and see God’s hand at work, orchestrating this path in our personal lives and eventually in our marriage. God brought together two broken people with vastly different personalities and lots of baggage.
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Legacy in the Dominican Republic
We thank God and World Radio for the blessing of witnessing the growth of His Kingdom here in the Dominican Republic. In these almost 48 years of ministry, I’ve seen the birth of 17 congregations thanks to the support of One Kingdom. Among these are:
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Taking Part in the Kingdom
As I think back upon my history with One Kingdom, my first awareness of this ministry was formed in the late 70s and early 80s. Soon after Joneal and I were married, we traveled to visit my parents who were living and working for an oil company in Balikpapan, Borneo. It was a new adventure in our new life together. Upon arrival and settling into the small compound, carved out of the jungle to provide a living area for the expatriates, I inquired about church services. What I learned was that a small group would meet at my parents’ home and listen to a preacher give a lesson on a program called World Radio Gospel Broadcasts.
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Turkey Earthquake
The devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria in February of this year was among the deadliest ever recorded in history. At the time of this writing, well over 50,000 lives have been lost, 160,000 buildings lay destroyed, and the country has suffered nearly 16,000 aftershocks.
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What It Means to Be a Disciple
Discipleship is how we reach the world, I am told. I understand that if each disciple reaches one person, and in turn that disciple reaches one that reaches one, the multiplication of disciples in a few years will reach the whole world.
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Mission to Peru
Almost a decade has passed since we visited Rodolfo Casas, One Kingdom’s partner and radio speaker in Lima, Perú. Many years ago, a visit was necessary because we had to talk and find out if he was sharing the Gospel as the good news of Salvation or if his teachings were legalistic and lacking in grace and truth. We were happily surprised to find a humble man of God in love with the Word and a passion for expanding the Kingdom. By the end of our trip, the local church in Carabaíyo, (one of Lima’s 44 districts) had welcomed us with arms wide open.
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The Hole: Jesus and Culture
In Houston, Texas there is an apartment complex known to the local community as “the Hole.” There is one way in and one way out of this low-income living environment. Inside this small community, there is an atmosphere of hopelessness, fear, and desperation.
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Ministry in the Nation of Nepal
We recently spent some time talking with our brother and partner in Nepal, Pramod Dhakal, about his ministry.
Pramod originally got connected to One Kingdom through our relief work after a devastating earthquake in 2015. He now oversees a World Radio program and ministers to his local community in Kathmandu.
Pramod works very closely with our partners in India in the effort to spread the Gospel to southeast Asia.
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Working in the Navajo Reservation: Joys and Challenges
I grew up on what I like to call the deep Rez, where there is no running water or electricity. I like to think I have a little culture to me, and I also like to think I understand the Navajo people because I myself am Navajo (or Diné as we like to be called).
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Hurricane Ian First Response
In early October, we sent a small team to Fort Myers, Florida to assist with disaster relief in the area.
Many homes were destroyed by the storm, many people were displaced, but the local church and community came together to help those in need.
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Mission to Colombia
Wednesday
Our first day of travel was an extended one. Leaving Monroe early in the morning, we arrived in Atlanta for a long layover before flying out to Bogota, Colombia. The One Kingdom team traveling to Colombia included Director Ryan Lee, elders of White’s Ferry Road Church, Mike Kellett and Robert Ables, and myself.
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We are Culture Warriors
From a worldwide perspective, have you ever noticed how obscure Jesus was during his short 33 years on earth? We know hardly anything about his first 30 years, and then during his three years of public ministry, he never traveled outside of the region of Israel and never addressed anything about world politics or the occupying Romans. When asked about paying taxes to Rome, his only comment was “So give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s, and to God what is God’s” (Matthew 22:21).
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Hope for the Hopeless
Hope is an important and popular construct in modern culture. Songs, movies, fiction and non-fiction novels, even Broadway plays center around themes of hope. We preach about hope. We teach about hope. Deep down, each of us is hoping for something. And, all of us at some point in time have felt the opposite of hope: hopeless.
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The Trip of a Lifetime
From my earliest memories, one thing I always said was “I want to go! Take me, too!” I was raised in Arkansas where my parents, Jake and Barbara Henry, always had every visiting preacher or missionary in our home to eat at our table and talk about ministry around the world. I heard about their struggles and listened to Godly folks dream about the future and how to reach the lost. I would sit there and dream with them, even as a child. I wanted to go!
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Two Sisters in Christ
The following article has been written by two sisters who are originally from Iran.
Ghazal (pictured above, left) and Maryam (pictured above, right) are both very active members in their church in Athens, Greece, and they also devote much of their time to ministering to other refugees who are making their way through Athens.
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I was Made to be a Soldier
I was made to be a soldier. When I joined the Army at 18 years old, it was all I wanted. It gave me a mission and a purpose. I stood shoulder to shoulder with other men, fighting for a worthy cause. I loved the excitement of combat. You might have heard it said before: there is not quite anything that makes you feel so alive as being shot at. All you have in that moment is your training, your inner strength, and your brothers. In some core way, this felt like what God made men to do. I knew it was what God made me to do.
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Youth Mission to Nicaragua
This summer we had the privilege of traveling to Nicaragua with our youth and college group to host a VBS and fellowship with our Nicaraguan brothers and sisters. When we were students in the college group, we had two opportunities to visit Nicaragua, and each time it had a dramatic impact on our lives. It opened our eyes to reality, teaching us that relationships are more valuable than material prosperity, and that there is beauty in both the similarities and differences of how other people-groups worship God.
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Now is the Time for Hope
When the highly-educated, well-traveled Pliny—a first-century Roman aristocrat and politician—was confronted with the death of a beloved friend, he wrote the following:
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