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In this blog, released on the 12th of each month, U.S. Alliance President John Stumbo unpacks issues God has been nurturing in his heart and mind. The blog is meant to initiate fruitful dialogue on topics important to our growth as Jesus followers and to our mission as a Christ-centered, Acts 1:8 family.
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Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
Tuesday Nov 12, 2019
John Stumbo’s Video Blog # 76—A Season of Change, Part Two
October 2019 / Cambodia / 12:42
John provides a fall Board of Directors meeting update on policy portions of the national conversations before the C&MA. “We’re sharpening the ax for greater mission fulfillment. It’s a good moment to be in The Alliance—don’t miss it!”
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
Saturday Oct 12, 2019
John Stumbo’s Video Blog # 75—A Season of Change, Part One
October 2019 / United States / 12:38
This month, John seeks to bring clarity to the conversations before The Alliance related to streamlining our organizational structures and reviewing guiding documents.
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
Thursday Sep 12, 2019
John Stumbo’s Video Blog # 74—Video Blog Highlights
September 2019 / the world / 12:57
This “best of” video features snapshots from John’s monthly video blog series he introduced in August 2013, just after his election as U.S. C&MA president. “I’m hoping to have a conversation with you where we begin to mobilize U.S. Alliance churches together as one.”
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
John Stumbo’s Video Blog # 73—What Would You Like to Say . . .?
August 2019 / United States / 12:16
Reporting from the LIFE Conference in Orlando, John asks students, “What would you like to say to the current leaders of the American church?” Surprised and moved by their responses, he concludes, “I’m reminded it matters—it matters what we do. Let’s keep going!”
Friday Aug 23, 2019
Friday Aug 23, 2019
John Stumbo’s Video Blog No. 72
July 2019 / United States / 12:26
John summarizes the four commitments he made to the Alliance family during his Friday morning address at Council 2019, setting the tone for substantive conversations to come.
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
Wednesday Jun 12, 2019
In this recap of Alliance Council 2019, John recalls his message from Acts, using “Perga”—where John Mark turned back on the first missionary journey—as a metaphor to challenge our Alliance family. “Let’s go inward and upward together—face our Perga and move on, because God is calling us beyond.”
Sunday May 12, 2019
Sunday May 12, 2019
In part three of his three-part series addressing principles for healthy communications on topics about known conflict, John shares why seasons of change are powerful discipleship opportunities.
Friday Apr 12, 2019
Friday Apr 12, 2019
John speaks to why our whole Alliance family must engage well in challenging, yet necessary conversations. We need to address how to more effectively complete our mission and make every effort to pass on the best form of our movement to the next generations.
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
Tuesday Mar 12, 2019
John focuses this month on four principles for public discourse he’s discovered. These shape his thinking and behavior on when to speak and when to remain silent in our world’s “cauldron of cultural conflict.”
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
Tuesday Feb 12, 2019
This month John is speaking from Guinea, where the Alliance national church is celebrating its 100-year anniversary. In 1919, the year Alliance founder A. B. Simpson died, the first Alliance church in West Africa was established in a Guinean village—37 years after Simpson had sent missionaries to Africa, of whom 30 died during that timeframe. Scores of missionaries followed to serve in Guinea and several other West African countries where some of our strongest Alliance churches are today. Simpson didn’t live to see it. “Will we invest our lives in that which outlives us?” John asks. If our work is “gospel-centered, biblically based, church-focused ministry as we’re filled with the Holy Spirit, our work is going to last . . . this is the Alliance story; it doesn’t end with Simpson because it started in the heart of God.”