Dwell Missions Celebrates God's Work in 2022

By the Dwell Missions Division

The Missions Division works with our global workers and indigenous partners to plant house churches accessible to everyone in a people group, resulting in changed lives and transformed communities. Currently, Dwell has twelve partners based in ten countries on five continents.

2022 represented a year of amazing quantitative and qualitative growth. Our Global Partners now represent hundreds of national workers who oversee a network totali...

Grief Workshop Starts January 11th

By Dwell Grief Ministry Staff

Starting Wednesday, January 11th, 2023, the Dwell Grief Ministry will offer a 10-week workshop called “Navigating Your Grief” at the Dwell Office Auditorium, from 7:00-8:30 pm. Please encourage anyone in your home group or friend group who has experienced the death of a friend or family member to attend. 

Each year about 2.5 million people die in the United States, each leaving an average of five grieving people behind. Most of t...

How to Approach Grief at the Holidays

As we enter the holidays, we enter a difficult time of year for those dealing with grief. Dwell's Grief Ministry recently offered its Navigating Holiday Grief workshop, and offers this summary of practical, hope-inspiring ideas to help deal with the many challenges that come this time of year: 

Talk About Your Grief

While many people use the words "grieving" and "mourning" interchangeably, there is an important distinction. Grief is the many internal thoughts and fee...

Prophesy Class Starts Soon

Dwell Pastor James Rochford is offering the class, “Biblical Prophecy: Confirmed Cases of Future Predictions.” The class starts August 17th and runs 5 weeks. James answers some questions about the class: 

What will you be covering? Why this approach to the broad subject of Biblical prophecy?

I've been updating my research on the study of the fulfilled predictions of the Bible for about a decade since writing Evidence Unseen in 2013. After another decade of studying these ...

New Playground Installed at Main Campus

After 26 years with the original equipment, Dwell’s Main Campus playground now has new equipment, offering kids of all ages the chance to play in a fun, safe, and challenging environment.

The new set up offers a main area where a lot of kids can play together, and several smaller stations, lower-to-the-ground stations, where 1 or 2 kids can play. The new structures follow all current safety standards.

Oasis Director Jeff Risley says the playground was designed to offer...

Dwell's Response to Spiritwatch

Former Dwell lead elder Dennis McCallum offered this response to a document posted by Spiritwatch Ministries.

Dwell Gets Special Thank You from Ethiopia

Your donations to Dwell’s Disaster Relief Fund are making a real difference in the lives of people in need around the world. Recently Dwell received a special thank-you note from a house church leader in Ethiopia. He was desperate to feed his family, and received a vital gift from his church, made possible by a $30,000 relief contribution from Dwell this spring.

His encouraging thank-you note is in the picture. Here’s a translation:

My name is Awok. I have a wi...

Xenos Summer Institute Starts July 13th

The Xenos Summer Institute (XSI) starts next Wednesday with both large scale teachings and smaller breakout sessions looking at the topic “First=Last,” bringing practical application to Jesus’ call to be the “least.” XSI runs July 13-15.

Here are some important details about this year’s event:

If you haven't already, register now to avoid the walk-in registration line. The deadline for advance discounted registration is July 11th at noon. Once you register, y...

Helpful New Resource On Dwell Website

By Dwell Pastor Bret McCallum

Dwell is offering a new resource on its website that can help you better understand yourself and others.

The study of the temperaments used to be standard learning in discipleship 20 years ago. People would study good material & take a temperament test to understand more about their wiring, strengths & weaknesses. Since then, actual study & learning on this topic has largely fallen by the wayside but the concept has loosel...

Dwell's Response to The Daily Beast

On behalf of Dwell Community Church, Pastor James Rochford offers this response to a recent article by The Daily Beast.