South Florida Missionary Reaches Out to Tourists in Rome During Jubliee

Bryon Mondok
1 Jul 2016
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“Living and working in the ministry in Rome provides endless opportunities to engage with people concerning spiritual things,” according to Justin Boatwright, a Fort Lauderdale-based missionary serving in Rome, Italy. “Virtually everyone traveling to Rome has heard of Jesus Christ, and they recognize through the artwork in the churches that a significant amount of time, energy and resources have been dedicated to events and people found in scripture.” Through November 2016, travel to Rome is expected to skyrocket. The tourism industry has braced itself for crowds of Roman Catholic Pilgrims and spiritual seekers to descend on Rome thanks to this […]

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Local Missionary Distributes Goods in Sudan and Ecuador

Bryon Mondok
7 Jun 2016
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  “While we were packing to head to South Sudan to serve those in need, a 7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on April 16, 2016,” said Mark Mosely of Pompano Beach-based Cross International where Mosely is director of Gifts in Kind (GIK). Mosely also serves as co-chair for the Global Relief Alliance. While he was launching a project to respond to a man-made humanitarian crisis, a natural catastrophe resulting in human tragedy struck. Mosely juggled the management of GIK relief responses to two different disasters while in transit to and on the ground in war-torn South Sudan, the world’s youngest country. […]

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Local Missionary Distributes Goods in Sudan and Ecuador

Bryon Mondok
1 Jun 2016
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“While we were packing to head to South Sudan to serve those in need, a 7.8 earthquake struck Ecuador on April 16, 2016,” said Mark Mosely of Pompano Beach-based Cross International where Mosely is director of Gifts in Kind (GIK). Mosely also serves as co-chair for the Global Relief Alliance. While he was launching a project to respond to a man-made humanitarian crisis, a natural catastrophe resulting in human tragedy struck. Mosely juggled the management of GIK relief responses to two different disasters while in transit to and on the ground in war-torn South Sudan, the world’s youngest country. What […]

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The Rewards and Challenges of Parenting a Special Needs Child

Bryon Mondok
3 May 2016
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“Honey,” my mom would say, “Don’t stare. That’s not polite. No, don’t point.” But I couldn’t look away from a child in a wheelchair. We all grew up politely looking the other way when we pass by someone with special needs. Our lives were suddenly disrupted when a child with special needs came into our family. No one makes a plan to parent a special needs child. The child simply arrives and the day she does is tragic and life as you know it is redefined for you. Our special needs little girl, our Allie, is really our granddaughter. Allie […]

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Risen is Sure to Captivate Audiences

Bryon Mondok
1 Feb 2016
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I know I’m not supposed to, but I have to admit it I love a good fight. The new New Testament era movie “Risen” starts with a brilliant Roman era battle scene. This is where director Kevin Reynolds set the hook in me. The scene was not over done. It was a simple, believable depiction of a confrontation between rebels and Romans that made the conflict real rather than cinematic. This is how I knew I was in for a good yarn that would have the kind of tension we love to experience in a film done well.   At […]

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Nick Vujicic Draws Crowds like Great Evangelists Before Him

Bryon Mondok
3 Nov 2015
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There’s an up and coming evangelist that is widely believed to be well on his way to being the most prolific Gospel preacher of our time. Nick Vujicic (pronounced VOO-yee-cheech), who is affectionately known as the guy with no arms and no legs, is on a mission to spread a message of hope. He’s consistently packing out stadiums, school auditoriums, church sanctuaries, and headlining conferences and special events all over the globe, and he will be speaking at Florida Atlantic University’s stadium in Boca Raton on November 7 at 7 p.m.. Nick is unique in his disability for sure, but […]

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Fort Lauderdale Missionary Serving in Syrian Refugee Crisis

Bryon Mondok
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Syria is experiencing the biggest exodus of people since the Rwandan war 20 years ago. While the brutality of the war in Rwandan was horrific, thanks to the Internet and ISIS, the atrocities of this war in Syria come to us via graphic social media images of beheadings and drowned children washed up on European Mediterranean beaches. It will take some time to forget the pictures we’ve seen. At least we should pray it does. But one Fort Lauderdale resident, Lisa Collins, who is serving as a missionary in Hungary, has witnessed the human struggle first hand as part of […]

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Reaching Every Nation and Tongue

Bryon Mondok
1 Mar 2011
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How do you reach the most isolated people in the most remote places on the planet with the Good News of Jesus Christ? Sanford, Florida based New Tribes Mission (NTM) identifies new tribes around the world and makes it their mission to reach them with the gospel. NTM is one of the largest missionary organizations in the world with 3,300 missionaries deployed around the globe. The name New Tribes Mission was chosen in 1942 by Paul Flemming, the organization’s founder. Flemming had been a missionary and noticed that tremendous effort was put into getting the gospel to people living in […]

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South Florida Men’s Conference

Bryon Mondok
2 Feb 2011
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“Men attending Christian churches every Sunday are facing overwhelming opposition,” says Pastor Martin Vargas of Sheridan Hills Ministries. In 2004, on a memorably cold day in January, Vargas gathered together a handful of men to travel to a men’s event held in Woodstock, Georgia. The theme of the gathering was Grace for the Race. For the next few years, the group of men Vargas took to Woodstock grew. In 2007, they decided to have a men’s conference in South Florida with Pastor Johnny Hunt of First Baptist Church of Woodstock as the keynote speaker. The first South Florida Men’s Conference […]

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Do You Have Crazy Love For God?

Bryon Mondok
1 Feb 2011
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“Am I showing God the kind of crazy love that I ought to be showing him?” asks Pastor and New York Time bestselling author, Francis Chan. “…God has become so familiar to us that He becomes common.” He wrote Crazy Love to give some perspective to a church whose members are in the comfortable habit of avoiding the things that make God mad. An online video accompanies each chapter of Crazy Love. In each video, Chan gives a brief talk expanding on the concepts in the book. It’s a nice personal touch that challenges a reader to take steps to […]

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