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Watching the Church in Slovakia Grow Through Local Teaching and Biblical Preaching

2023-01-22 by Todd 1 Comment

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Ever since my early years as a believer I’ve wanted to understand Scripture better. During the M.Div. program at Trinity I couldn’t get enough of the theology or the Bible intro classes. At the end of the M.Div. I felt like much of what I had learned, I really should have learned in Sunday School. Why didn’t we talk more in depth about the Trinity in Sunday School? Why didn’t we open up the book of Genesis the way we did at seminary? I felt like God’s people should have this same access to solid teaching like we got at seminary.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: bible, genesis, slovakia, teaching, theology, Trinity

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Looking Back on the Patterson Family’s 2022

2022-12-26 by Todd Leave a Comment

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Just when we thought things might get back to normal the world was hit with another major crisis that dramatically changed everything from politics to our daily lives. It’s time to take a quick look back and see how all this affected us and what we were up to in 2022.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: elisabeth, family, jana, max, slovakia, todd

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Planning our 2020 Home Assignment in July and August

2020-03-15 by Todd 2 Comments

It’s our custom to visit the States for home assignment in even numbered years and we’re hoping this year will be no exception. We’ve already purchased tickets to leave Vienna and arrive in Chicago on June 24 and we’re looking forward to sharing in person about life and ministry in Slovakia.

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Filed Under: ministry development Tagged With: home assignment, mpd, slovakia, teaching, travel

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Training Bi-vocational Pastors and Lay Leaders for Ministry

2019-08-08 by Todd Leave a Comment

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The Cirkev Bratská in Slovakia (the denomination we work most closely with) has made church planting its number one priority. The denomination estimates that over the next ten years we will need more than twenty new pastors if we want to reach our church planting goals. But where will those pastors come from? Many of them will be young, bi-vocational pastors with no formal theological education. How will they find time for theological education while juggling ministry, job and family?

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Getting in to the Book of Acts at a Seminar on Preaching

2018-11-07 by Todd Leave a Comment

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My calling is not so much to “teach at a seminary” as it is to help the church better read and apply the teaching of Scriptures to every day life. So I’m glad whenever I get the chance to teach or preach in the local church. Even better are opportunities to help pastors hone their Scripture reading and preaching skills. I recently had the opportunity to lead a preaching seminary for about 15 Slovak pastors or teachers.

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Filed Under: ministry Tagged With: acts, preaching, slovakia, teaching, theology, todd

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A Picture Book for Home Assignment

2018-06-01 by Todd Leave a Comment

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We’ve created a picture book that we’ll be bringing with us on home assignment. We hope this will be one way to share our ministry with you. It contains some basic information about Slovakia and our family as well as some snippets about theological education, Narnia Elementary School, our local church and more. If you won’t see us on home assignment, you can at least click through to see an online version (sorry, flash only, there’s no mobile version).

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Filed Under: ministry development Tagged With: family, home assignment, slovakia

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Fall 2017 Gallery

2017-12-07 by Todd 4 Comments

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We had a beautiful fall in Slovakia this year and snow as early as Nov 1. Check out our fall 2017 photos.

Elisabeth in the fall
Lots of snow on November 1 hike.
Lots of snow on November 1 hike.
Fly killer

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How to Make a Matched Donation to Help Fund my Position at the Seminary in Slovakia

2017-12-07 by Todd Leave a Comment

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We have a special financial need coming up in early 2018 in order to continue funding the “grant” that covers my teaching position at the seminary. When First Evangelical Free Church in Rockford, IL found out about this need, they offered to match any special giving toward the grant. If you can make a special donation toward our ministry between now and the end of January, that donation will be doubled by First Free. For more information (how to give, FAQs) please click through.

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Filed Under: ministry development Tagged With: missionary, slovakia, theology

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