Ministry Updates and News from the Mehns
Road Trip Your July 2025 Update from John and Elaine Do you like long road trips in the car? Road trips come with good and bad. Last month Elaine and I enjoyed one of our last road trips to Kentucky and Ohio. We first visited Elaine’s sister in Kentucky as she is unable to travel to us. We had a great visit with her and other relatives. Then we headed to Ohio to visit many…
FOCUS ON SOUTH ASIA Just this week, Phu Pham and John met online for planning with two key leaders we will see for a Strategy Summit early next month. In just a short amount of time, just 3-4 years, our team and a South Asian group have built remarkable partnerships and trusting relationships for collaboration. Just following the unbelievable story of the collaboration this story is just at its beginning (see the article on the…
This month Elaine and I will be in the MidAtlantic region of Converge visiting churches in Ohio by touching base with them and seeing their mission opportunities. For you in our Mentor church we will be dropping by Sunday June 8th. We hope to see many of you from Anchor Church in Avon Lake on Monday night the 9th. Then we will be attending the biennial meeting called “United” at Old North Church, June 10-11.…
Elaine and I may be taking on maybe one of the most important assignments with the Japanese. Beginning next week Elaine and I will begin personal spiritual mentoring in Sonship with a key Japanese leader and his wife. A Pastor has been part of the Japan Church Planting Institute for many years. We hope to translate the entire curriculum and make it available for Japanese to mentor others in Sonship in Japanese. This is more…
A large-scale Bible attitude survey conducted by the Gallup group reveals that 76% of Asian people know nothing about the Bible, and 56% have never heard of it. The survey of 91,139 people across 85 countries about how people relate to the Bible, representing 3.8 billion people worldwide. FOCUS ON SOUTH ASIA In April, my Asia Impact Team teammate Phu Pham and I met in Chicago to plan our work in South Asia. We drove…
This month Elaine and I will head up north to visit a partnering church in Wisconsin. To be thinking ahead, In June, we both will be the MidAtlantic region visiting churches in Ohio and touching base with them and seeing their mission opportunities. For you in our Mentor church we will be dropping by Sunday June 8th. Then we will be attending the biennial meeting United at Old North Church, June 10-11. We hope to…
In late February and early March John was in Southeast Asia with Phu Pham meeting with 4 groups of key regional church leaders. Because of the nature of our practical training we requested they keep the groups under 35 members. So over six days we met with over 115 key pastoral and ministry leaders. We focused on three areas 1) Radical Christian Leadership – Following the example of Jesus himself, we painted a picture for…
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