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Over the last decade, FEC has grown in size. The number of churches has doubled, along with the number of credentialed ministry leaders. In addition, FEC has expanded from the Midwest into the western United States. All of that growth has created a greater demand for support from the FEC Office in Fort Wayne, Indiana. [...]

In September, Life Community Church in Hilliard, Ohio, turned 25 years old. A weekend of activities culminated on Sunday, September 11, as they reflected on the past and the changes that have come from saying “yes” to God. Wanting the weekend to resemble a big family reunion, Life Community Church (LCC) sent out an invitation [...]

Bethel Fellowship Church is nestled in the middle of Missouri, halfway between St. Louis and Kansas City. Fortuna, Missouri, is the kind of idyllic setting with green pastures, woods, and farmland, where you’d expect to find a white church with a steeple. Bethel traces its beginning to 1867, but its leaders are excited to be [...]

Donate to this Initiative Visit Church Website Matt Harris is planting a new kind of church, a church with many groups. The former small groups and discipleship pastor at Crossview Church in Grabill, Indiana, has launched Neighbors House Community Church in his neighborhood this summer. Neighbors Church offers a new kind of [...]

Donate to this initiative At the end of The Wizard of Oz, Dorothy declared, “There’s no place like home.” Kyle and Rachel Stoker have discovered the truth of that statement. They left their lifelong home in Celina, Ohio, and eventually followed God back to Celina to plant a church. An atheist in his teens, [...]

Pine Hills Kendallville loves their community and chose a new name to reflect their roots in Kendallville, Indiana. Planted in 2015, Pine Hills Kendallville in Indiana has become a fully independent church, and now, they have a newly renovated home and a new name, Fairview Fellowship Church. Pastor Marc Buwalda explained that from the beginning [...]

A 2022 Barna survey found that 42% of pastors have given serious thought to quitting the ministry in the last year (Barna.com). That number had climbed 13-points from the previous year. Stress and loneliness were cited as the top two reasons for wanting to quit. FEC understands the pressures that ministry leaders face and provides [...]

The CDC estimates that 20% of adults sought out mental health therapy in 2019. Since the pandemic of 2020, the number of people suffering from anxiety and depression has only gone up. One group of churches is providing local support in the Wauseon, Ohio, area through a trained team of 15 lay counselors from four [...]

Donate to this Initiative! About two million people of Arabian ancestry live in the United States, and nearly 25,000 of them call Toledo, Ohio, home. This year, Mark Clausing and Nashwan Saadoon, began leading an outreach called New Life, or Hayat Jadida in Arabic, in the Toledo area. Mark Clausing developed a passion for [...]