By Brian Jose, Radstock's Executive Director I know. I get it. We want excellence and good leadership. Heck, I’m was even talking last week to a strategic planning consultant. But I’m aware of the dangers — that I can over-manage our mission into irrelevance. Tim...
By Alan Giles, Pastor of Ekklesia HD in Apple Valley, California USA A couple of weeks ago I had the great privilege of participating in my first ever Radstock Round Table in Kiev, Ukraine. I had no idea what to expect. I had no idea what I would see, hear, learn or walk away...
by Kevin Chen, Pastor: Christ Church, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Before the Trip Over the summer, Brian Jose, the Executive Director of Radstock, and I caught up for coffee in Ann Arbor. During our meeting, he invited me attend the Radstock Round Table in Kiev, Ukraine. I thought...
Brian Jose, Radstock's Executive Director, writes on Albania - Europe's Backdoor for Drugs, Sex Trafficking, Jihadism - and the Gospel on the Gospel Coalition's website. Read here.
How can we reach out to the University students in Ukraine? Our evangelistic cross-cultural student summer camp has turned out to be very successful ministry for several years and for several churches in Ukraine. Why was it successful? The answer can be packed into 5 critical points. Those fit...
Writing in 1933 German geographer Walter Christaller came up with a theory called “Central Place Theory”. His idea was to provide an explanation for the distribution of services and people around cities. Now Christaller was a clever chap and it’s over 20 years since I studied...
REGISTER HERE. Balkan citizens register here in Shqip. Join us for the next Radstock Round Table in Albania, March 8-10, 2017. We will highlight church planting in the port city of Durres, the nearby village of Sukth and the city of Berat. We’ll hear updates of...
The day starts as usual for Fisnik, Manjola and their family. Their two boys get off to school, which is a 5-minute walk from home. They are good students, models to whom teachers refer with pride. Samuel won the chess championship and represented Bosnia in the world championship in Greece, a...
Life is quiet in Konjica, Bosnia, and developing friendships is quite a challenge. People are not open to befriending strangers. They keep their bars high due to the lack of trust in this culture because of the war. But God has blessed Fisnik and Manjola and their family with some good local...
Besi and Miriam Gorrea live with their 3 children in Sukth, Albania, where God is using them to establish a church and so bless this little village. Read on for some highlights from their latest update, and please do keep them in your prayers! Our break in the UK was a great time for us to...