February Update and 2025 Ministry Review

Ministry Review for 2025

Grace Fellowship International

We are grateful for another fruitful ministry year—the 55th for GFI. Here’s a brief review.

We conducted 3 local seminars, plus Mark McKeehan’s in Alabama and mine in Virginia.

International mission trips included mine to Cairo, Egypt in March, and Mark & Carrie’s to Cape Town, South Africa in November.

We conducted 3 in-person Exchanged Life Counseling Workshops locally and I conducted 1 online in the fall.

Nine months of the year I facilitated the Monday night zoom Bible study. The text and videos of What is Man? (T. Austin-Sparks), and Victory in Christ (by Charles Trumbull) are available online for continued use.

I grouped the dozen books and free online video sets that we offer in a new web page so they are easier to locate (under Resources / Book and Video Combos) gracefellowshipinternational.com/book-and-video-combos/

Three more certified ladies joined us as official counseling Guides: Heidi Hanssen (AZ), Donna Kruse (VA), and Lisa Hummel (SC), which brings our total to 13 (not including the Life Coaches whom Mark oversees).

We had Luther Rice Seminary students in our workshops again last year as they opted for GFI’s track for their required practicum. (The zoom meeting Mark and I had with three of the Luther Rice leaders was encouraging.)

Stats

• GFI staff and Guides conducted 1,514 counseling sessions.
• Mark and Liz served as chaplains for soccer teams at Johnson University.
• Mark and I conducted over 300 consulting/coaching sessions (some in-person, most by phone or zoom)
• I had 5 chaplaincy related events (including the GFI exhibit with Liz at Dollywood’s Wellness Expo)

Online ministry for 2025

• We sent 12 monthly issues of Glimpses of Grace eblast
• We sent 12 monthly issues of the Exchanged Life Counseling e-letter to certified and certification in process folks and had some zoom meetings for fellowship and coaching.
• We sent 52 weekly issues of Grace Notes
• GFI app has users and had 10,077 “impressions” 
• Glimpses of Grace podcast: 25 new episodes published
• GFIworld.sermon.net audio: 7 new recordings, 2,143 listens
• GraceFellowshipInternational.com: since the new site was launched 48,176 December visitors: 1,303 visitors, 2,467 page views
• RevitalizingPastors.org: 2,400 visitors, 3,400 page views
• ELCmatters.com. 4,200 visitors, 25,700 page views
• Vimeo.com platform: (675 total videos) 1,400 visitors, 3,996 views
• YouTube.com/GraceFellowshipIntl : 16 videos were added and 26 shorts.  28,000 views, 183 new subscribers
• Aaron Kim https://www.youtube.com/@aaronkim1074 : 16,100 subscribers, his initial testimony: 193,000 views

I post these GFI blogs monthly:

•   GraceFellowshipInternational.com
•    ELCmatters.org
•    RevitalizingPastors.org

Personal blogs:

•    BiblicalPsychology.net
•    DeliverUsFromEvil.online
•    MyPrayerHelps.com

Supervising Counseling Associates

•    Cherri Raws Freeman LoveThemToLife.com
•    Aaron Kim www.youtube.com/@aaronkim1074
•    Steve Ranz MenUnderConstruction.me

Facilitated book publishing:

•    Battle Cry, by Carrie McKeehan (paperback and Kindle ebook)
•    Life in Christ: A Personalized ebook (Kindle)
•    Life in Christ: A Personalized ebook, Discipler’s Guide edition (Kindle)
•   The Great News of Grace, John Best (paperback and ebook)
•  Updated photo albums: https://gracefellowshipinternational.com/photo-gallery/

For 2026

I have a Finding Freedom seminar scheduled for St Louis for Saturday, March 28th and a Finding Peace seminar in Bellefontaine, Ohio April 25th.

We are planning a 12 session audio demonstration of Linda Gammon doing Discipleship sessions using her Life in Christ: A Personalized Discipleship Notebook (that GFI published). This will hopefully be a training resource that promotes the sale and use of the Notebook book and Discipler’s Guide editions.

We rejoice in the Lord and are grateful for our prayer and financial support partners!

Yours in Christ,

John Woodward
Director of Counseling and Training