TTP Goes Global

We're excited to share with you that The Truth Project is now in 14 foreign countries, with trained leaders leading small groups in the following countries:

Australia, Egypt, Iceland, New Zealand, China, Canada, Guatemala, Guam, Ireland, Great Britain, Iraq, Bermuda, Cayman Islands and The Netherlands.

It does appear that the Lord is blessing our meager efforts, as up to 450,000 people world-wide have experienced the content of The Truth Project to date!

Soli Deo Gloria!

The Truth Project  Team

Happy Thanksgiving From Our Team to You

In 1863, with his country torn in two by Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a day of thanksgiving for these United States.  A portion of his proclamation reads below:

"The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God...

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union."

                                     President Abraham Lincoln, circa 1863

We too, are thankful for all that God has done this year and pray He will continue to bless you and your family as you pause to remember His divine providence over this great nation.

Happy Thanksgiving!

TTP in Edmonton, Canada

We’re in Canada again!

Job 26:7 says, “He spreads out the northern skies over empty space; he suspends the earth over nothing.”  When we walked out of our hotel this morning the Lord had once again “spread out the northern skies.”  This picture does not capture the full majesty and splendor of the morning sky…it was magnificent!  As we drove to the church the northern sky was a very visible reminder of God’s present and active role in our every day activities.

That’s right, we’ve traveled across the border once again to share The Truth Project with our northern neighbors.  Sounds exciting, eh?  Sure is…just like the Toronto conference two weeks ago, our Edmonton event today is sold out!  We’ve crammed about 820 into the sanctuary at North Pointe Community Church in Edmonton, Alberta.

Although it is a little cold outside, we have been welcomed very warmly by the Focus Canada staff and all the conference attendees we’ve met.

Thank you for your continued prayers and encouragement.  We received an incredible email this week from a student named Jimmy who was at our Missouri event last weekend.  It is always a blessing to our team when you write in and share with us how the Lord is working in your life.

We look forward to hearing from you if you are at our event today in Edmonton.  We pray that the Lord has begun a mighty work in your heart and mind…today may be the beginning of an amazing journey for you!

Satellite Simulcast Training in 2008!

Be a Truth Champion

You and I are engaged in a cosmic battle -- a battle that is raging for the hearts and minds of people the world over, pitting the truth claims of God against the lies of the world, the flesh and the devil. It is a battle over what you truly believe.

If your heart is heavy from what you see daily in our culture and you long for a spiritual revival within the church, we'd love for you to consider partnering with and representing Focus on the Family for our first ever nationwide LIVE Truth Project Simulcast Training Event on Saturday, September 27, 2008.

In this powerful and interactive one-day training taught by Dr. Del Tackett, participants in your church will be thoroughly prepared to make a Christ-centered difference on culture by applying God's principles to daily life, and specifically to be trained to lead their own small group following the conference.

Participants in the live Training Event will receive the complete 12-lesson Truth Project Curriculum on DVD and access to The Truth Project Learning Support Web site.

Be a Truth Champion for
Your church and your community.

Host The Truth Project Simulcast Training Event.

TTP in Branson, MO

Thank you College of the Ozarks!

This past weekend, our team was blessed to deliver a training on the campus of College of the Ozarks in Branson, Missouri.  The students, staff and faculty welcomed us with open arms and provided a great venue to bring The Truth Project to Southwest Missouri.  Over 450 people joined us from over 12 states, with 200 students attending from College of the Ozarks.

We are now off to Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.  We ask for your prayer support as we travel north this coming weekend!

The Truth Project Team

TTP In Toronto

Over 600 attendees joined us this past weekend in Toronto, Canada for the launch of The Truth Project in Canada.  Our team was blessed by the warm welcome and the humble hearts of all those who attended the training conference.  We are thankful for our friends and partners, Focus on the Family Canada, for hosting the event and allowing us to bring this curriculum to our friends and to the Body of Christ in Canada.

We continue to pray that the Lord will bless our efforts and that He will raise up a generation of Christ followers in Canada that will take the Truth of Christ into their individual spheres of influence. 

Our team made it through customs and back home today, though one of us was flagged on the "do not fly list" and almost missed our flight!  Thank you to all our new friends in Canada, may the Lord bless you and keep you in His will.

Introducing the Team

Hello Friends & Partners with The Truth Project--

This is my first post, so if I may, I would like to introduce myself, and more importantly, our team to you (though you have already met Gary Alan and Grant through their previous postings).

I hope by learning more about each of us, you will see more clearly the hand of God in The Truth Project. That is one of the important goals of this blog--to tell the story of what the Lord is doing in the lives of many people through The Truth Project.

My name is Marc Fey, and I am the director of Community Impact Programs for Focus on the Family, the area within which The Truth Project resides. More importantly, I started in April 2004 with Del as the first team member, following the Focus on the Family Board's decision to commit staff and resources to the vision of putting Del's teaching on DVD. It was the genesis of the program as many of you have experienced it.  I hope to tell you more stories of those early days.  Since that time, I have traveled with the team to 20 of the 21 conferences, privileged to be a part of this special team. 

And that, really, is why I write today--to introduce you formally to our team.

Dr. Del Tackett, of course, you know. He is the teacher-- "tour guide" -- and the visionary of The Truth Project. I will tackle some longer posts later on Del's story since it goes further back!

Gary Alan Taylor has been with The Truth Project since April of 2005, joining the team just before we filmed The Truth Project. Since that time, as program manager he has been the key leader in the day-to-day management of the program. He is a gifted speaker and wise leader for our "on the ground" team, working to provide our conferences, communication to our leaders, and other areas of oversight to keep the program moving.

Kathy DeMattee is our senior coordinator who was our first team member to join me at the beginning of this adventure. With a sharp understanding of processes and organization,she serves as our "air traffic controller."  Kathy is highly administrative, a person who always has the "wise word" at just the right time for our team.

Grant Cheney has worked on The Truth Project in three different roles. As a recent grad of the Focus on the Family Institute with a background in film, he joined the Cold Water Media team to help with the production side of the project. During filming, as many of you know, he was a student in our classroom. Then, after filming he joined our Focus team as associate editor, which he has been doing now for the past two years. His responsibilities are hard to summarize--he works on media, creative projects, and does some of the speaking at our conferences (regarding how to use the web site).

Robert Velarde is our online editor who manages the web content and message boards. A published author in his own right (see TrueU.org to read some of the articles he has written on worldview).

Janet Sperry is our administrative assistant par excellence, who takes care of many behind-the-scenes details, no less important than anything else we do.

So, as an overview, that is who we are, the core team for The Truth Project.  However, look forward to additional postings, when I will tell you more about our team...the larger, extended team of many others who support us to do what we do-- to serve you the best we can. It takes many people at Focus on the Family to accomplish what at times seems like "the impossible."  For that reason, at every opportunity, our desire is to give thanks to the Lord for what He appears to be doing through The Truth Project. It is a deeply humbling thing, to serve all of you as you risk yourselves in serving and caring for the Body of Christ.

Let me pause there, to write more later, as we attempt to tell the story of what God is doing.  At the end of the day, that is our goal-- to give Him credit--all the glory--for the wonderful things that He is doing! What a privilege it is to be a part of His team!