Dr. Delron & Peggy Shirley
Teach All Nations Mission (TAN) is a global evangelical educational ministry birthed from the teaching ministries of Delron and Peggy Shirley. The name Teach All Nations Mission was chosen to carefully indicate exactly what the heart of Delron and Peggy’s mission is.
TAN’s commitment is to establish a solid foundation in the national pastors and leaders so that they can help enrich the people. The vision is Christian teaching materials (in English and the local languages) in printed form and on audio and video, providing scholarships to Christian colleges and Bible schools for promising students, assisting in establishing and building of Bible schools, and broadcasting via the internet, radio, and television.
This fall proved to be a time of opportunity on multiple fronts. On the day after Delron left the Philippines for Hong Kong in June, a devastating earthquake ravaged the same area of the Philippines where he and Peggy had ministered just months before. Fortunately, none of the people that we know were killed or injured; however, many of the people we had personally ministered to lost their homes and possessions. Teach All Nations immediately responded with an offering sufficient to rebuild the home of one of the families. At essentially the same time, we got the disturbing news that our close ministry partner in India, who was in the process of relocating to Thailand to expand his ministry to all of Asia, received notification that the ministry he was working with had changed its mind about the expansion. Feeling that he was following the Lord’s direction, he decided to make the move anyway, even without their support. Again, Teach All Nations responded by helping him finance his family through the transition period and paying his son’s school fees. We also helped gospel workers in Africa and Haiti with medical bills and a village whose well had dried up. Then, just before leaving for Nigeria, we – along with the whole world – were shocked by the news of the devastating flooding in Nepal. Our emails, texts, and phones were flooded with inquiries from friends and partners, asking if we happened to be in Nepal when the disaster struck and what Teach All Nations was going to do to help. After having made generous gifts from our general budget for these other needs, we shared that we would gladly receive special offerings for the victims in Nepal. True to the heart of our supporters, generous donations did come in, and we added to them from our operating budget. Your gifts are at work right now, helping the survivors begin to rebuild their homes and lives, even though they will never be able to replace the most valuable thing they lost – their loved ones. We plan to be in Nepal in October of next year to follow up.
Concluding our last series of studies with the question, “When should I act?” seems to be a good introduction to a follow-up study on God’s timing. I made mention of the children of Issachar who had an understanding of the times and seasons and that their insight gave Israel the advantage of knowing what to do and when to do it. If we can have that same kind of comprehension, we will also have the same advantage afforded to the people in the days of Issachar’s children.
The title I have chosen for this series of studies comes from a quote by the Apostle Paul – and we’ll eventually get around to studying the message in that verse in detail; however, for the moment, it is sufficient to understand that there is a maturing process to what God is going in our lives, and that we must learn to wait as that process comes to its fullness. Jesus explained this principle in parabolic form with the emphasis on the fact that the framer acted immediately when he realized that the harvest was ready – in other words, in the fulness of time.
So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground; And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how. For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear. But when the fruit is brought forth, immediately he putteth in the sickle, because the harvest is come. (Mark 4:26-29)
This fall proved to be a time of opportunity on multiple fronts. On the day after Delron left the Philippines for Hong Kong in June, a devastating earthquake ravaged the same area of the Philippines where he and Peggy had ministered just months before. Fortunately,...
Concluding our last series of studies with the question, “When should I act?” seems to be a good introduction to a follow-up study on God’s timing. I made mention of the children of Issachar who had an understanding of the times and seasons and that their insight...
This month’s report is a bit different from our usual editions in that we will be sharing more of the teaching from our mission to Canada than about the trip itself. We were invited as speakers for a convention of Nigerians from Dr. Tunde Bakare’s church that we...
In the I Samuel chapter seventeen, we read the all-too-familiar story of David and Goliath. However, because it is so familiar, we have a tendence to somewhat glaze over the account and miss some very significant points, assuming that we already know what the...
One last concept that I’d like to explore before we leave the story of the Apostle Paul is the fact that he was a survivor. We have already seen in II Corinthians 11:23-28 that he lived through tremendous difficulties that could have crushed even the strongest of men...
The main purpose of my trip to Taiwan, the first destination on my three-stop Asian odyssey, was to deliver the graduation speech at Charis Bible College’s commencement ceremony. In addition to the graduation, I taught in the school and spoke at an event for alumni...
