In the early 90s, a Twin Cities’ Converge congregation found its attendance plateauing around 400. But by God’s kindness, its growth has been explosive. What changed? And far more, how have they become powerful, contagious ambassadors of Jesus Christ? In Acts 2, we read of thousands coming to Christ at a time. And as world […]

Sometimes, getting out of bed is all it takes to see God move. But what if it’s 1 a.m.?    Navy Lt. Ryan Daffron (O-3) knows God is faithful, even at that hour. At least once a week, when deployed, the chaplain sets his alarm for 0100. A few minutes later, he starts a conversation with […]

Tamara Rowe understands the life of military families and sees how Jesus, the light of the world, is right there with service members.    From her earliest years, her dad was in the United States Army. She moved around the world, went to school and played on bases in numerous states and nations. She even […]

Michael Kettunen has been on both sides of the bars in the state prison in Yuma, Arizona.    He has nine felony convictions, four different prison sentences and one stretch in solitary confinement. So how did God create a second chance and renew him into a Converge chaplain?    Kettunen came to Christ and got baptized […]

The iPad in Julie Stegman’s hand will say it all.   Recently, leaders of a food and resource distribution center in St. Paul, Minnesota, told Stegman how helpful a digital tablet would be. They use paper to track metrics about their operations before manually entering that data into a computer.    But not for much longer: […]