Expansive Fellowship by Brother Steve Rankin In 1 John 1:3, we find this word: “What we have seen and heard, we also announce it to you so that you can have fellowship with us” (CEB). To draw people together in Christ. To hold him in common. To orient our lives around Christ and, as the […]
E.Stanley Jones as a young man This class meeting, where we told our successes and failures, our joys and our problems, became for me the germ of an idea which has blossomed into a world movement — the Christian Ashram movement. Everyone needs a close-knit fellowship to which he is responsible and which is responsible […]
Pearl Minick, Director, Bridgewater Christian Ashram When thinking about all I’ve learned and experienced being a part of Bridgewater Christian Ashram as a member and then as Director, I get a warm fuzzy feeling. Over 20 years ago, Pastor Arie Mangrum from Purity Baptist Church here in Washington, DC, led me and many from my […]
Asher and Cassidy with their mom, Bonnie Houser Bonnie Houser shares what it meant to her and her children to go to Redwood Christian Ashram for the first time. “I took a leap of faith and came. My children set the example for me this week. I have such an overflow of love.” Before going […]
Testimony fromDonna Bell Sanders I came to Refresh, Restore, Renew 2020 (the Online Retreat sponsored by Redwood Christian Ashram) wanting peace and healing. This past year has been a difficult one for everyone on the planet and it had been especially hard for me and my family. Everything happening in the big world had been […]
It’s been one month since the New Brunswick Christian Ashram, the fourth and final 75th celebration. I have had time to process and reflect on my experiences over a summer of deep relationships in communities of faith. This internship was, without a doubt, one of the most valuable doors that God has opened for me […]
As a writer, I was taught that every story follows a similar pattern of rising action, culmination, and resolution. And as it goes, the story about Tom Dearduff and the United Christian Ashram is no different. California unveiled the setting and characteristics; Texas advanced the plot towards an ultimate turning point; and Minnesota served as […]
“Jesus is Lord!” was the theme for the 75th Anniversary celebration events in North America. Today, I can say with certainty that in every one of the 10 Ashrams I attended between May 25 and August 9, one of more people came to a saving faith in Jesus Christ for the very first time. Many […]
One of the most challenging teachings of Jesus is Matthew 19: 16-30, the story of The Rich Young Man, which ends, “But many who are first will be last, and the last will be first.” It’s easy to serve when you know that being last will inevitably end in being first – nobody chooses the […]
