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The Edmiston Center promotes practical theological reflection on the challenges, skills, and stories of local and global Christians who endure on society’s margins.

12/02/2025

Today is Giving Tuesday at the Edmiston Center, and every gift today strengthens the students who study with us.

Women and men across the world are encouraging each other to follow Christ faithfully in the world’s most challenging places; your generosity equips them to disciple others to endure.

Our students aren’t simply absorbing ideas. They’re pastors, artists, theologians, missionaries, first-generation believers, and quiet, faithful servants carrying gospel courage into places many of us may never go.

When you give, you invest directly in their formation, their scholarship, their calling, and the communities they serve—at home and abroad.

Give today through the link in our bio.
Select “RTSAtlanta” from the dropdown and designate “Edmiston Center.”

➡️ Every gift—small or large—helps strengthen the enduring Church.

With gratitude for your partnership and love for our students,
- The Drs Ellis

12/02/2025

Last month, our Edmiston Center faculty spent ten rich days in Havana Cuba with La Seminaria Teológica de La Villa—teaching, learning, worshipping, and sharing life with their leaders and community. Our profs were on hand to witness the graduation of their very first seminary class - felicidades!

Our friends in the Los Pinos Nuevos network welcomed us with a warm bienvenido, and we were even able to reconnect with our partners from Prayer Current (Canada). It was a reunion of ideas, friendships, and shared mission.

What a gift to see the Cuban church at work firsthand—its courage, generosity, and sacrificial hospitality. We sat under solid biblical teaching, shared much laughter, shed a few tears, and found ourselves united in the one Hope who never fails: Christ, who empowers His people to endure in the world’s most challenging places.

Grateful. Encouraged. Strengthened by their faith.

If you’d like to get a jump on joining and supporting the work of the Edmiston Center, the giving link is already live in our bio.

Tap RTS Atlanta and write “Edmiston Center” in the blank.

More tomorrow—on Giving Tuesday.

Some courses shape your mind; These shape your witness.This winter and spring at RTS Atlanta, explore how faith endures,...
11/10/2025

Some courses shape your mind; These shape your witness.

This winter and spring at RTS Atlanta, explore how faith endures, speaks, and sends through the Edmiston Center’s immersive offerings:

Learn theology that breathes, defends, and moves through the Church local and global.

What part of the Church’s witness do you feel most called to strengthen: sending? speaking? enduring? defending?👇Drop a comment below.

This is the world our students are learning from and serving alongside.
When you give to support our students, you’re eq...
11/07/2025

This is the world our students are learning from and serving alongside.

When you give to support our students, you’re equipping leaders who carry these stories, relationships, and gospel courage into every corner of the Church.

We’re equipping and funding 30 by 30: thirty practical-scholars in Christian Endurance Studies by 2030.

👉 Tap the link in our bio to Give to the Center, select Atlanta → Other → “Edmiston Center.”

Your gift today helps fund the next generation of endurance scholars: that’s 30 by 30.

There’s hard and exciting Kingdom work happening around the globe, and right here at home.

Atlanta friends — see anybody you know at last week’s forum? Let us know in the comments.

And thx to and the Ellis Global Research Project (EGroup) for a powerful collaboration last week.

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we stand with believers who whisper it in secret and shout out loud: in prisons, in exil...
10/31/2025

When we pray the Lord’s Prayer, we stand with believers who whisper it in secret and shout out loud: in prisons, in exile, in fear, in strength.

Every word Jesus taught us still strengthens believers today.
🌍 Pray it slowly.
Comment “Amen” if you’re praying with us.
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Follow for more reflections that strengthen the global body of Christ.
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10/18/2025

writes:
“This Nigeran pastor and his church is tired of burying bodies of Christians every day. He has a message to the world and to Trump. Tag to make sure he hears.

After the internet and people around the world called them out, the Nigerian government quickly and adamantly denied any genocide against Christians and rejected claims that Christians in particular are being targeted and persecuted for their Christian faith.

Nigeria’s Minister of Information & National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, who is a Muslim himself, said: “The violent activities of terrorist groups are not confined to any particular religious or ethnic community. These criminals target all who reject their murderous ideology, regardless of faith.”

But let’s be honest and factual. Christians in northern and central Nigeria are disproportionately affected by violence from Boko Haram, ISWAP, and armed militias. Attacks repeatedly focus on Christian communities, leading to mass killings, abductions, and displacement. While some victims may be Muslim, the pattern shows that Christians are systematically targeted, making them the primary targets of this ongoing violence.

However, we should be careful not to push a narrative that could deepen divisions between Christians and Muslims in Nigeria. It is true that these radical Islamist terrorist groups have a history of targeting other “moderate” Muslims whom they believe are not following Islam correctly. To be clear, when the pastor in the video says it’s Muslims who are killing, he is referring specifically to the radicalized Muslims within these terrorist groups.

Let us pray for the persecuted Christians in Nigeria. May God help them.”

has shared Zion Church’s Urgent Prayer Letter from Pastoral Team (October 11, 2025):“In 2025, a new wave of religious p...
10/16/2025

has shared Zion Church’s Urgent Prayer Letter from Pastoral Team (October 11, 2025):

“In 2025, a new wave of religious persecution is emerging across China. Zion Church is an unregistered Chinese house church adhering to orthodox Christian beliefs. Founded in 2007 by Pastor Jin Mingri in Beijing, Zion grew rapidly within a decade to become one of China’s largest emerging urban churches, with about 1,500 members. In 2018, Zion experienced severe persecution, with hundreds of members pressured by religious officials and local police to prevent them from participating in the church. On September 9, 2018, Zion was brutally shut down by the government, and all church property was confiscated.

Over the past seven years, despite the dual challenges of persecution and the pandemic, Zion has established over 100 small-scale church plants in 40 cities across China. During these recent years, Zion Church has been subject to government repression, with many pastoral staff and believers harassed, threatened, interrogated, and even briefly detained by police. In 2025, the persecution of the Zion Church network across China has significantly intensified. Multiple sites in dozens of cities have been frequently disrupted, and over 150 brothers and sisters have been taken to police stations. Eleven pastors have been placed under administrative detention (usually lasting for 14 days). Since October 9, 2025, nearly 30 pastors and staff members of Zion Church across China have been detained or have lost contact.

Why are so many Christians in China who love God and their neighbor, and who abide by divine law and human laws, being treated unfairly like criminals? Jesus has already given us the answer: “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you.”

We implore brothers and sisters around the world to pray earnestly for Zion Church and all Chinese churches under persecution, and to offer their solidarity and support. Let us imitate Jesus’ own prayer in Gethsemane before his crucifixion (Luke 22:42): “Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. Nevertheless, not my will, but yours, be done.” Glory to God!”

Our students, faculty, staff AND Atlanta location make for a favorite community combo. Why in-person at .atlanta ? 👇Yes,...
10/16/2025

Our students, faculty, staff AND Atlanta location make for a favorite community combo.

Why in-person at .atlanta ? 👇
Yes, online learning is convenient—but convenience rarely produces depth. In-person seminary challenges you to show up, be known, and be formed alongside others who are running the same race. You’re not just earning credits—you’re being molded for a lifetime of faithful ministry.

Apply today and take the first step toward a richer, embodied theological education that prepares you for real-life ministry.

09/29/2025

A church attack is every pastor’s nightmare.

A violent mind sees a soft target, and the shepherd’s flock pays the price.

The A-Mark Foundation tracked violent attacks on houses of worship (2012–2022). The FRC tracked 1,384 hostile incidents against U.S. churches between 2018–2024, and FBI hate crime data also records houses of worship as specific targets. They report that attacks on U.S. churches have nearly quintupled since 2021. And since different groups define “attacks,” “hostile incidents,” and “violent attacks” differently, we can assume that underreporting is likely.

At the Edmiston Center, we study how Christians endure when even sanctuaries are shaken.

Follow us to Pray, Learn, and Stand.


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