Germans to speak at Christian center

Reverend Stuart German, Assemblies of God (AG) missionary representative at Global University, will be the feature guest speaker at Platte Valley Christian Center AG, on Sunday, March 17, according to Reverend Gene Smith, pastor.

Stuart and Jeanie have served in AG World Missions for nearly three decades, spending their first twenty-six years in the Philippines. The Germans first moved to the Philippines in 1991 where their three children, Nathan (25), Erika (21) and Jared (20) were born in the city of Manila. They ministered in a variety of capacities during this tenure, including compassion ministries, church-planting, disaster relief, college student ministries, and more.

Stuart has come to believe that equipping churches with well-trained pastors and workers and using God's Word to instruct in personal accountability is the best path to strengthening and preparing indigenous churches to self-sustaining growth. He believes in his recently-donned maxim that "Nothing is more central to the task of making disciples than teaching in its various forms." To that end he had accepted a transitional assignment at International Ministries, Global University, that will present multiple teaching opportunities in various countries around the world and prepare for his eventual transition to pastoral training ministry in Taiwan. The AG International Church in Taipei (Agape, ICA) governs several Filipino daughter churches for overseas workers. Stuart and Jeanie anticipate partnering in a new training venture with ICA for the pastors of these congregations as well as exploring means of planting new churches for Indonesian and Vietnamese foreign workers plentiful in that city.

Stuart recently completed very well received teaching assignments in Guyana at the Caribbean School of Theology and in Taiwan and is excited to pursue this new direction in ministry.

The public is invited to hear the Germans' missions presentation on Sunday evening, March 17 at 6 p.m.