The math shouldn’t work. Surely a blatantly Christian outreach to Muslim refugees wouldn’t have waiting lists in the hundreds or need to set a cap of around a thousand for its outreach events. Hundreds of Muslims wouldn’t be finding Jesus. This same refugee center wouldn’t be equipping and discipling thousands of underground believers in the […]

Who Are We, America? Growing up in South Asia as the son of missionaries, I knew I was an American, but it seemed distant and mysterious. I felt America everywhere—in embassies, newspaper headlines, on Voice of America radio—but did not know it from personal experience.  When I moved to the United States at the age […]

When Martha Anderson retired as an elementary school principal, other retiring staff eagerly shared their retirement visions of book clubs and flower gardens.   But Martha? Martha, of Converge’s First Baptist of Webster, Wisconsin, was going…to jail.   Twenty years before, God had stirred Martha’s heart—and changed her life—through a one-dollar book at a garage sale, detailing […]