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.
Teach All Nations has had a long and well-established relationship with the churches and believers in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic. Working with Tim and Trena Johnson, a missionary family that we have known since we were all members of Dr. Lester Sumrall’s church in 1980, we have been to their ministry compound more than a dozen times with mission teams, for pastors’ conferences, and as a base for outreaches into churches, schools, and rehab centers.
This year’s visit was prompted by a request from the local pastors that we come to teach them some in-depth principles on prayer; so, the conference and the ministry in the churches were all focused on scriptural lessons about prayer. The conference theme proclaimed that prayer can change the world – which certainly seemed to be more than a coincidence with the fact that we were able to introduce a special guest to the pastors at the conference. Just a few weeks before we were invited to come to the Dominican Republic, Delron became aware that Every Home for Christ had a desire to open an office in the city where the conference was to be held. He was able to arrange for the national director of the ministry to come to the conference to share his vision for their city. As part of his presentation, he gave each delegate a world map and a prayer manual entitled “Change the World Prayer Guide.”
Obviously, the task of exploring the impact that Paul had on the lives of the individuals he touched during his lifetime would take us far beyond the limits of just one volume; therefore, I’d like to look at just two examples – one individual and one congregation. For the individual, I’d like to choose Paul’s closest friend – and likely the most abundant recipient of his DNA – his disciple Timothy, a young man whom he chose to mentor and groom for the kingdom of God. For the congregation, I’d like to select the church at Thessalonica – an outstanding example of the maximum impact of Paul’s life and ministry in that, as we have already noted, he was able to establish a viable church even in adverse conditions during a short three-week visit.
The story of how Paul selected Timothy is recorded in the sixteenth chapter of Acts – which, as we have already observed, immediately followed the council in Jerusalem in which Paul played a major role in helping the early church leaders come to the conclusion that it was unnecessary for gentile converts to receive the ritual of circumcision that was a major tradition for Jews and anyone who would desire to convert to Judaism.
Obviously, the task of exploring the impact that Paul had on the lives of the individuals he touched during his lifetime would take us far beyond the limits of just one volume; therefore, I’d like to look at just two examples – one individual and one congregation. ...
Teach All Nations has had a long and well-established relationship with the churches and believers in the Caribbean nation of the Dominican Republic. Working with Tim and Trena Johnson, a missionary family that we have known since we were all members of Dr. Lester...
Since everything that Paul did was an outward manifestation of the internal mission that was birthed in him on the road to Damascus, our journey through the apostle’s life has helped us isolate a number of the things that caused his life to be one of maximum impact:...
When the world came to a screeching halt due to the pandemic in 2020, Teach All Nations had to cancel all our plans for the year, including a scheduled pastors’ conference in the nation of Myanmar – where we have had a strong presence for over three decades. Once...
In 1973, Delron was privileged to be a prayer counselor at the Billy Graham crusade which was held in the football stadium on the campus of North Carolina State University where he was an undergraduate student at the time. In what might be considered “coming full...
Paul’s Life Story Our first introduction to Paul is as Saul of Tarsus, a persecutor of the early Christians. But it is possible for us to piece together a bit of the history that led up to this chapter in his life. Saul grew up as a freeborn Roman citizen (Acts...
