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Voices

Jorge Acevedo

July 18, 2017

Jorge Acevedo smoked a joint to celebrate becoming a Christian. As a 17-year-old, new believer, he didn’t know right from wrong or up from down. But God rescued him from a life of addiction. Forty […]


Jim Powell

July 13, 2017

At the age of 78, Jim Powell is on-call 24/7. Since 1997, he has served as the volunteer chaplain for the Oldham County Police Department. Although no longer pastoring full-time, he enjoys serving alongside the […]


Scarlett Sierra

July 13, 2017

Scarlett Sierra first understood the power of psychology as a teacher. One of her pupils entered class with a wrap sheet of misbehavior, including starting a fire and poking another child in the face with […]


Brandon Beals

July 3, 2017

Brandon Beals began his church planting adventure as a result of his theoretical thesis, “If I Were to Plant a Church, Here’s How I Would Do It.” But God called him to put his theory […]


Paige Medlock Johnson

April 28, 2017

Beauty is in what you don’t see. Paige Medlock Johnson grew up around Asbury University art majors, but didn’t realize she was an artist herself until partway through college. She switched her major from psychology […]


Harrison

April 12, 2017

Harrison puts his treasure in people that nobody else wants. He, his wife, and their partners in ministry live in an impoverished state in Northern India that is home to more than 100 million people. […]


Julie Broderson

March 24, 2017

Julie Broderson calls the homeless friends. As Pastor of Missions at Centenary United Methodist Church (UMC), she helps her congregation re-discover God’s mission for the world by seeing the less fortunate in the local and […]


Rev. Dr. Jessica LaGrone

March 13, 2017

As a nine year old, Rev. Jessica LaGrone, wrote sermons in her head. Today, she serves as the first female Dean of Chapel at Asbury Theological Seminary and is a widely published author with Abingdon […]


Spencer Hahn

March 6, 2017

Nobody wanted Spencer Hahn. At least that’s what the police officer told him when he awoke from an accidental overdose. Handcuffed to a hospital bed without family, friends or hope, Spencer thought his life was […]


Jacob Guot

February 2, 2017

Jacob Guot shines the light of God’s hope to South Sudan refugees living in the Bweyale Refugee Camp in Uganda. Ironically, Jacob was one of the Lost Boys from the Sudanese Civil War that lasted […]