Centers of Hope Part 2: Multiplying Community Shepherds for Churches that Endure

Before 1991, the Soviet Union governed religion and religious practice across its fifteen republics with crushing severity. They regulated every aspect, from a pastor’s attire and song selections to the annual number of baptisms. After Communism collapsed, many new churches sprang up in strong numbers. These congregations could finally exercise freedom in worship, focusing more…

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Centers of Hope Part 1: The Winding Road to Ukraine

Long before Abe and Diane Bible met and began Centers of Hope, they each felt called to missions as children living on opposite sides of the world. In Holland, Abe saw a short film in school about a missionary and told the Lord that’s what he wanted to do with his life. In the United…

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