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Pastor X and His Wife are Back

I’m sitting back down with our good friend Pastor X and his wife to get ...

‘Our Own US Government Turned Them Away’: Underground Railroad Rescue Efforts Underway in Afghanistan

The State Department says the military mission in Afghanistan is complete and the focus is ...

Global Catalytic Ministries is seeing beauty rise from the ashes

Despite the horrors that have occurred in Afghanistan in the year since the US left, ...

Christians in Afghanistan Persevere One Year After Taliban Takeover

Last month, senior staff in U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration voiced concern about the August ...

Christians in Afghanistan face routine torture, persecution from family members: watchdog groups

"There are still Christians in Afghanistan," said Todd Nettleton, an author and radio host who ...

Waking Up from Spiritual Indifference

“You don’t tell people about Jesus, because you don’t care about their eternal state.” His assertion ...

A year after Taliban takeover, Afghan Christians still spreading hope

It has been one year since the Taliban gained control in Afghanistan and while many ...

GCM announces an update on the anniversary of the betrayal and the aftermath of the US pullout of Afghanistan

Despite the horrors Afghanistan In the year after leaving America, Global Catalyst Ministry (GCM), a ...

Winter brings another crisis to Afghanistan

Afghans face yet another crisis as temperatures drop. Without food or heat, millions risk death ...

The Exploding Church in the Muslim World

Mike Patino of Global Catalytic Ministries shares what God is doing in countries like Iran ...

We believe the Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, are inspired by God and are the revelation of God to man, the infallible, authoritative rule of faith and conduct. (2 Timothy 3:15-17, 1 Peter 1:21)

We believe that there is one God, eternally existent who has revealed Himself as embodying the principles of relationship and association as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. (Deuteronomy 6:4, Luke 3:22)

We believe in the deity of our Lord Jesus Christ, in His virgin birth, in His sinless life, in His miracles, in His atoning death through His shed blood, in His bodily resurrection, in His ascension to the right hand of the Father where He intercedes for us, in His present rule as Head of the Church, and in His personal return in power and glory. (Matthew 1:23, Luke 1:31)

We believe in the creation of mankind in God’s image, and the fall of man, resulting in universal guilt and total depravity; and the necessity, therefore, of redemption and restoration; that all men and women are lost spiritually and face the judgment of God, that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, and that repentance of sin and faith in Jesus Christ is necessary for regeneration by the Holy Spirit. (Genesis 1:26-27, Genesis 2:17)

We believe salvation is received through repentance toward God and faith toward the Lord Jesus Christ. By the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, being justified by grace through faith, man becomes an heir of God, according to the hope of eternal life. (Luke 24:47, John 3:3)

We believe in the resurrection of both the saved and the lost; the saved unto the resurrection of eternal life in the presence of our Lord, and the lost unto the resurrection of damnation and eternal punishment. (Matthew 25:46, Mark 9:43-48)

We believe in the spiritual unity of believers in our Lord Jesus Christ and that all true believers are members of His body, the Church, which has the duty to preach the Gospel to every person. (Ephesians 1:22-23, Ephesians 2:22)

We believe that we must dedicate ourselves to prayer, to the service of our Lord, to His authority over our lives, and to the ministry of teaching, preaching, the prophetic, the apostolic, and evangelism. (Ephesians 4:11-13)

We believe in upholding the ordinances of the church of water baptism and holy communion.

The ordinance of baptism by immersion is commanded by the Scriptures. All who repent and believe in Christ as Savior and Lord are to be baptized. Thus, they declare to the world that they have died with Christ and that they also have been raised with Him to walk in newness of life. (Matthew 28:19, Mark 16:16, Acts 10:47,48, Romans 6:4)

The Lord’s Supper, consisting of the elements—bread and the fruit of the vine—, is the symbol expressing our sharing the divine nature of our Lord Jesus Christ (2 Peter 1:4), a memorial of His suffering and death (1 Corinthians 11:26), and a prophecy of His second coming (1 Corinthians 11:26), and is enjoined on all believers “till He comes!”