30 Stories from EPW’s Front Line
Short devotionals from the field. Real moments and Scripture from the frontlines where EPW trains pastors to preach God’s Word faithfully.
Isaiah 43:19b (ESV)
In Bhutan, outside teaching requires a government-approved chaperone in the room at all times. Pastor Aaron saw an opportunity. What could have been a restriction became a doorway.
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Psalm 90:12 (ESV)
At EPW’s first training in Darjeeling, a pastor in his eighties stood and wept: “I wish I had received this training at the beginning of my ministry, not at the end.”
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Philippians 3:7 (ESV)
For years, Rev Richard sat near the back at EPW’s conferences in Soroti and rarely spoke. Then one evening he asked to speak privately. He could no longer preach the prosperity gospel.
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Ephesians 2:8 (ESV)
Cheryl was a pastor’s daughter and a worship leader. At EPW’s training in Hyderabad she said it plainly: “I realised that I was not actually a Christian.”
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2 Timothy 2:2 (ESV)
Twenty years ago, one UK trainer partnered with Emmanuel Magambo in Uganda. Today Uganda hosts 15 to 20 EPW training events a year, and nearly all of them are led by Ugandans.
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1 Corinthians 8:2 (ESV)
After EPW’s training, a pastor in southern Nigeria stood before his congregation and confessed: “We thought we knew what the church is and how to build a healthy church. We did not know.”
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Mark 9:7 (ESV)
A sangoma walked into pastor training wearing the skins of a witch doctor. One year later he returned, the attire gone, declaring the only thing that had changed him: Jesus only.
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