Climbing 4 Kids

Provide Life-Saving Transformation for Entire Communities This March, I’m climbing a 33 mile track in New Zealand. I’ll ascend mountains fueled by the support of generous sponsors like you who have pledged to fund new churches for every mile of this climb....

Leadership Principles from Compassion International

Spent time this week with a great group of young church leaders in Colorado. Love these guys and their commitment to doing whatever it takes to start churches that care for children. While together, we toured Compassion International offices and got to hear from...

Join Me for Breakfast with Gene Appel

Gene Appel has become a great partner with Stadia in starting new churches. In fact, Eastside has pioneered our work in Mexico, planting churches where Compassion International can care for hundreds of children through child development sponsorship programs. Really...

Simply because it’s the right thing to do!

Julie and I were traveling by bus along with 20 other leaders from the U.S.A. from Bogota to Cartagena. Just the previous day we had flown from our home in Northern Ohio to Colombia, South America. As we settled in for the multi-hour bus-ride, our conversation turned...

Light in the Darkness

I recently spoke with Vince Antonucci about the important work that he is doing planting churches in some of the darkest places.  If you are a church planter with Christ-like compassion for those furthest from God, check out this video and visit www.splagna.com...