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About Pastor Foley

The Reverend Dr. Eric Foley is CEO and Co-Founder, with his wife Dr. Hyun Sook Foley, of Voice of the Martyrs Korea, supporting the work of persecuted Christians in North Korea and around the world and spreading their discipleship practices worldwide. He is the former International Ambassador for the International Christian Association, the global fellowship of Voice of the Martyrs sister ministries. Pastor Foley is a much sought after speaker, analyst, and project consultant on the North Korean underground church, North Korean defectors, and underground church discipleship. He and Dr. Foley oversee a far-flung staff across Asia that is working to help North Koreans and Christians everywhere grow to fullness in Christ. He earned the Doctor of Management at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management in Cleveland, Ohio.

The current missionary support raising model is dying

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Pastor Foley

Got a great-and-sobering note from a dear brother of mine–a leader at a great missions agency–this week. Subject? The traditional dial-a-church model of missionary funding is becoming such an exercise in futility that it’s really best termed SPAM. Here’s the … Continue reading →

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Needed: A revelation of champions and partners

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Pastor Foley

Read Frank Viola’s From Eternity To Here while slogging away on the Precor machine at the Y tonight. The book’s dedicated to enabling Christians to see the church as what Frank calls ‘God’s ageless purpose’. Some moving passages in there, … Continue reading →

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‘We all know you’re really just doing this for the money.’

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Pastor Foley

Two of my dearest friends and most respected colleagues recently paid a visit to the headquarters of a denomination that had in the past closed its churches to fundraising speaking opportunities from the nonprofit ministry my two friends represent. Reason? … Continue reading →

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