{"id":2137,"date":"2022-01-18T15:53:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-18T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/2022\/01\/18\/introducing-icochistory-org\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T06:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:58:18","slug":"introducing-icochistory-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/introducing-icochistory-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing ICOCHistory.org"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disciples Today and the Beam Missions Foundation partnered to launch&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/icochistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">icochistory.org&nbsp;<\/a>as our official history website for the International Churches of Christ. The site includes important articles, bulletins, videos, audios and more that tell the story of what God has done with the ICOC including the victories and challenges. We are grateful to Doug Arthur and the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.beammissions.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Beam Missions Foundation<\/a>&nbsp;for initiating this site to provide resources for hundreds of students in our&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/resources#TeachingTrainingSchools\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">mission training schools<\/a>&nbsp;around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/icochistory.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/icochistory.org_.png?ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This website is a great tool for those who wish to be inspired by and learn from our history to build better for the future. It truly is a story of how God worked through imperfect people to build a fellowship of disciples in 711 churches in 147 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We will continue to add materials to this site as they become available. If you have resources you would like to contribute, please send them to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:rlamb@dtoday.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rlamb@dtoday.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are deeply grateful to these wonderful disciples who built the site: Lai-Yan Faller, (Portland, Maine, USA) Editor; Benjamin Ali (Johannesburg, South Africa), Webmaster; and Brandon Owens (Birmingham, UK), Assistant Editor. To help maximize your experience,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/icochistory.org\/home\/start-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Start Here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disciples Today and the Beam Missions Foundation partnered to launch icochistory.org as our official history website for the International Churches&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":2138,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"post_folder":[151],"class_list":["post-2137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/1988-Boston-World-Missions-Seminar-1.jpeg?fit=1000%2C525&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"dtadmin","author_link":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/author\/dtadmin\/"},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phsvEw-yt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2088,"url":"https:\/\/disciplestoday.org\/clone\/history-gives-us-hope\/","url_meta":{"origin":2137,"position":0},"title":"History Gives Us Hope","author":"dtadmin","date":"February 14, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the truly amazing things about the Bible is that it tells the good, the bad and the ugly and yet provides the greatest hope of all time. 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