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Congratulations to our graduating students in Mexico 🇲🇽

Honoring the Lives and Ministries of Marilyn Hickey and Dick Eastman

Two beloved members of the ISOM instructor family who helped equip students around the world.

ISOM is deeply grateful for the lives and ministries of Dr. Marilyn Hickey and Dr. Dick Eastman, two beloved members of our instructor family who recently went home to be with the Lord.

While many knew them through their worldwide ministries, ISOM students have also been blessed by their teaching through our curriculum. We want to pause to honor their legacy and thank God for the fruit of their faithful service.

Their ministries were distinct, but both carried a deep conviction that God’s Word, prayer, and the gospel of Jesus Christ must reach the nations. Their teaching continues to serve ISOM students around the world, and we are grateful that their voices remain part of the training entrusted to this ministry.

Please join us in praying for their families, loved ones, and ministry teams as they continue carrying forward the work entrusted to them.

“Well done, good and faithful servant.” (Matthew 25:23)

Congratulations to our graduating students in the Philippines! 🇵🇭

2025 has been a remarkable year full of blessings and accomplishments. Our partnering ministries continue to grow stronger, our impact is reaching more people across the nations, our school is bringing in more students and graduates and we even have the pleasure of producing a new short film called The Story of Lucy (visit Isom.org/lucy to find out more). None of this would be possible without your support and donations and above all the many churches and individuals dedicated to praying for ISOM and our entire team. So we share a genuine thank you with you all and for your support.

For details on 2025 accomplishments and projects, please visit our website ISOM.org and subscribe to our newsletter for more updates.

As we move into 2026, Lisa and I want to let you know that God is clearly leading us to focus on Israel and specifically Jerusalem. At our conference in February 2025, God spoke prophetically to us publicly through Prophet Riaan DeLange from South Africa. The Lord told us that He was giving us a headquarters in Jerusalem and that ISOM would become a key tool that God would use in preparing His end-time Bride. Lisa and I believe this direction is from God and are setting our hearts on God’s purposes for Israel. We plan to facilitate at least two trips in 2026 to the Holy Land. The goal, as always, is to love, bless, and strengthen God’s people in that strategic nation. ISOM is already available in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, and Amharic, making it accessible to many of the major language communities within Israel. We believe this focus for 2026 is of God and invite you to stand with us and help us with prayers and finances as we close out 2025

⭐️Year-End Matching Challenge ⭐️
As we finish 2025, a generous partner has committed to match all year-end giving, dollar for dollar, up to $50,000. This is a wonderful opportunity for your gift to have double the impact. We invite you to prayerfully consider participating in this matching challenge as we close out the year. Please also please remember to pray for us.

Christmas time is here ✝️ And we are recognizing Jesus as the reason for the season!

We are grateful for this year and all of the accomplishments and blessings that God has provided us as we are looking forward to a great New Year coming up!

So that ISOM can continue to be a blessing to growing churches all over the world, please look for ways you can give and donate this year on ISOM.org.

And don't forget to visit our student website ISOMonline.org to enroll in our online school with some of the best Christian leaders from around the world!

We love sharing testimonies from our students! ⭐️ it is such an encouragement to our entire team here at ISOM as well as to other students all over the world!

If you have a testimony of how the ISOM has impacted your life, please share it with us! We would love to hear from you.

In March 2019, while flying home, I watched two movies that deeply touched my heart.

The first was Braveheart; the closing scene in Braveheart is of Wallace’s red-haired friend Hamish taking a sword and throwing it spinning through the air, with that hauntingly beautiful Braveheart score in the background, until that sword penetrates, blade first, into the heart of the battlefield. That act of defiance and courage brought victory and freedom to Scotland. I must have watched that spinning sword scene 15~20 times on the airplane. It was like the arrow of God’s deliverance that Elisha had King Joash shoot out of his window in 2 Kings 13:17.

After watching Braveheart, the other movie I saw was Capernaum, a Cannes Film Festival award-winning film about a 12-year-old Syrian refugee called Zain. Nadine Labaki, the film’s director and writer, used a real refugee to play Zain, and she filmed this movie on the streets of Beirut in, Lebanon. Most of the actors are ordinary people who simply had to just be themselves. Their faces, etched with pain, tell their stories. Zain’s life was such a misery that, in the movie, he sues his parents for having given birth to him.

The movie is the most realistic portrayal of the plight of millions of refugees I have ever seen. It reveals a lost generation with no roots and no real identity. I sat riveted for the remaining hours of the flight, thinking about the poor, the refugees, the disenfranchised, the destitute, and about the arrow of God’s deliverance.

I believe God used these two movies I watched to begin to birth in my heart the seeds of the Spearhead Scholarship Fund. I felt such a desire to create a fund to thrust a spear of freedom and truth into the hopeless parts of our world. We have the Arabic, Pashto, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu, and Armenian languages. We have the technology, being able to deliver content on microSD chips into persecuted places; we have the contact people to work with, as many write weekly to me asking for help; we just need the finances.

Please consider helping us spearhead deliverance and truth into these needy regions of God’s harvest.

In Christ’s love for the harvest to be discipled,

Berin and Lisa G

Congratulations to our students in the Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

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Congratulations to our graduating class in Nigeria 🎓