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Deep in the countryside of Plymouth, Indiana, 28 women came together last month for FEC’s THRIVE retreat at Lindenwood Retreat and Conference Center. During the three-day event, licensed women within FEC and pastors’ wives from places like Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Kansas gathered for “soul care,” enjoying structured time for community, the Lord, and [...]

With the rising cost of higher education, the Christian Service Foundation (CSF) continues to make strides to help FEC families with that financial load. This year, the CSF increased its scholarship from $1000 to $1500 and expanded its availability to college-bound high schoolers. As a result, $100,000 will be awarded to 73 college students [...]

Less than 10 percent of the 60,000 residents in Oxford County, Maine attend church. But like the shepherd on the hill, God continues to pursue and rescue them, particularly through Moss Brook Church (MBC) in South Paris, Maine. After being a mobile church for 20 years, MBC moved into a permanent building in 2024 [...]

Throughout the gospel of Luke, much of Jesus’s ministry was done around a table. This is what first inspired Joey Nigro when he launched The Table, a church plant in Uniontown, Ohio, in 2021. Since then, much of the church’s fellowship happens around their own “church table,” from first and third Sundays hosting lunch, [...]

In 2011, five men from FEC entered a Yalunkan village in Mali, Africa. They introduced the chief and all his people to the Big Creator. Today, a church from that West Africa Initiative is growing deeper with plans to build a permanent structure and train up the next generation of leaders. Last October, Hal [...]

Church planting is essential to FEC’s heart, with a mission to “establish reproducing churches worldwide.” This is carried out through synergy groups, church-planting residencies, and an annual two-day event called Church Planters Assessment Center (CPAC). This year’s CPAC event took place in mid-January in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with three couples attending to learn more [...]

In 2020, when churches sought new ways to minister to their communities during the pandemic, LIFEGATE Church in Denver, Colorado, launched a back-to-school Summer Bash for families under financial hardship. Five years later, that same Summer Bash has continued to grow, seeing more than 1500 backpacks given away and thousands of people impacted.At the heart [...]