Dr. Delron & Peggy Shirley
Teach All Nations Mission (TAN) is a global evangelical educational ministry birthed from the teaching ministries of Delron and Peggy Shirley. The name Teach All Nations Mission was chosen to carefully indicate exactly what the heart of Delron and Peggy’s mission is.
TAN’s commitment is to establish a solid foundation in the national pastors and leaders so that they can help enrich the people. The vision is Christian teaching materials (in English and the local languages) in printed form and on audio and video, providing scholarships to Christian colleges and Bible schools for promising students, assisting in establishing and building of Bible schools, and broadcasting via the internet, radio, and television.
After not being able to visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo for three years due to the pandemic, Delron was eager to get back to follow up on the trainings he had been doing with the pastors and leaders for the several years prior to the global shutdown. However, there was a problem with this particular trip. Following the disruptions in food production caused by COVID and the war in the Ukraine, food costs have soared in many parts of the world. Many African countries were particularly impacted with prices doubling and even tripling since his previous visits. Most other costs, including printing, have also skyrocketed due to supply chain issues and companies that did not recover from the shutdowns. Since Teach All Nations always hosts the delegates to lunch each day of the three days they are in attendance and provides them with a book covering all the material that is taught in the conference, we had to make the decision to limit the number of pastors that we were to invite this year. However, when the doors opened on the first day of the meetings, the number of delegates waiting to register was almost double the number of invitations that had been sent out. When word got around that Delron was back in the country, the pastors who had been in the previous meetings refused to be left out and simply showed up even though they had not received formal invitations. In addition, the number continued to grow each day as news of the meetings spread. Of course, we could not turn anyone away; so, we simply believed the Lord that the food would stretch – and it did, running out with only about twenty delegates missing lunch on the last day. Providing the books was a different story. Since we had printed only enough for the invited delegates, we asked them to present their invitations in order to get a book. The other attendees were given access to an electronic version that could be downloaded to their phones or computers.
Where Can We Look in Times Like These?
In what seems almost symbolic, one of my study Bibles is coming apart at the seams with a total break at II Peter chapter three. The result is that the book naturally flops open at this particular passage as if to purposely remind me of Peter’ words.
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness. (II Peter 3:10-13)
Three times in this short passage concerning our stance of readiness for the end times, the apostle uses the verb “to see.” He tells us to take notice that TETWAWKI is coming and to determine what kind of people we must be in light of that reality; he admonishes us to look for and eagerly anticipate the day when this transition is to occur; he commands us to look for the new heavens and new earth that are promised as a replacement for the present evil age. I’m sure that we are all aware that we are living in what the scripture refers to as perilous times. In times like these, it is important that we have a proper focus for our attention lest we become victims of the chaos of the times. We must be like the sons of Issachar who understood the times in which they lived and kept a proper perspective on all the events around them. (I Chronicles 12:32)
After not being able to visit the Democratic Republic of the Congo for three years due to the pandemic, Delron was eager to get back to follow up on the trainings he had been doing with the pastors and leaders for the several years prior to the global shutdown. ...
Where Can We Look in Times Like These? In what seems almost symbolic, one of my study Bibles is coming apart at the seams with a total break at II Peter chapter three. The result is that the book naturally flops open at this particular passage as if to purposely...
Once we begin to get our focus on the things that really matter about the end times, we will begin to think a lot more soberly about the times in which we live and will have less and less focus on the sensationalistic approach that many apocalyptic teachers try to...
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