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.
On Delron’s trip to the Congo in 2023, he visited a friend of his who, after completing medical school, had taken the challenge of running an underfunded and ill-equipped hospital in a remote area of the country. As he was touring the grounds, Delron noticed a group of pregnant women camping on the lawn. The doctor explained that the women have no way of knowing exactly how far along they are in their pregnancies; so, they come early and wait to avoid having to travel over the rough terrain while in labor. With that explanation, Teach All Nations made the decision to buy the hospital a portable ultrasound machine that the doctor could take to the villages and check the women so he could tell them when they needed to come to him for their deliveries. The following year, Peggy delivered the machine and asked if she could witness its first use. As she watched the ultrasound as I held the baby’s mother head up so she could see the baby’s image on the screen, Peggy could tell there was little movement. When the doctor analyzed what he was seeing on the screen, he realized that there were complications that required an emergency C-section. After the operation, the doctor told Peggy that the baby would have died if they had not examined the mother with the new ultrasound machine. On the very first time that the equipment was used, a life was saved!
It was my first “real” job – with an office, a desk, and a plaque proudly announcing my name. But before we go there, I should tell you that I’ve always worked. Even before I was old enough to count out the change, I pulled a little wagon around my neighborhood selling vegetables from my parents’ garden – believing that my neighbors were honest enough to pay me the correct amount. From the time I was big enough to pull the ripcord on the mower, I cut our neighbor’s grass. I’ve shined shoes, waited tables, tutored struggling students, and served as a clerk in a department store and a technician in a research lab. So, when I finally had a professional position, I was rather proud of myself. But then came the lady – the one who totally “burst my bubble” and deflated my “balloon”! When she walked into my office, she took one look at me and blurted out, “You’re just a kid!” I tried to director her attention to the business I was supposed to handle for her, but she kept repeating, over and over again, “You’re just a kid!” I don’t think that I was ever able to get down to the business she had come to me for as she continued to exclaim, “But, you’re just a kid!” Actually, I was thirty years old, married, and with a baby son. I had earned my master’s degree and was working on my doctorate. Plus, I had traveled essentially around the world, ministering in places like Japan, India, and Sri Lanka. But to her, I was just a kid, and I couldn’t change that in her eyes. However, the important thing in life is not how others perceive you, but how you view yourself and how God sees you.
On Delron’s trip to the Congo in 2023, he visited a friend of his who, after completing medical school, had taken the challenge of running an underfunded and ill-equipped hospital in a remote area of the country. As he was touring the grounds, Delron noticed a group...
It was my first “real” job – with an office, a desk, and a plaque proudly announcing my name. But before we go there, I should tell you that I’ve always worked. Even before I was old enough to count out the change, I pulled a little wagon around my neighborhood...
Our mission to the Central American country of Honduras was packed with a wide variety of ministry opportunities: two pastors’ conferences, a meeting with a fellowship of local missionaries, Sunday and midweek services in the local churches, a missions-emphasis...
He wasn’t “born with a silver spoon in his mouth.” In fact, he was actually born with “a knife against his throat.” Yet, in divine irony, the man who was holding the knife top his throat wound up feeding him with his silver spoon. This is the beginning of the story...
2025 was a very exiting year for our family with the biggest event being the addition of a new member – August Christopher Shirley, born to our middle son Christopher and his wife Megan on April 30. Unfortunately, Grandma and Grampa were not present for the momentous...
The story of how Paul selected Timothy is recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Acts – which, as we have already observed, immediately followed the council in Jerusalem in which Paul played a major role in helping the early church leaders come to the conclusion that it...
