Broken Jars

Doug’s new book, “Fire and Rain: Keys to Transforming Your Community” is now available. This work outlines the key ingredients to globally transforming communities, following the principles clearly illustrated by the prophet Elijah in his monumental contest with the priests of Baal. This is a crucial book for any pastor, civic, or church leader wanting to have a clearer vision for changing nations and regions as well as anyone looking for Biblical direction in the process of transforming their lives. more....

Doug Norwood of Broken Jars spent a week in Guyana, Oct 2-8, encouraging real unity in the Body of Christ. Here, pastors in Linden, Guyana confess sins of divisiveness, repent, forgive each other, and proclaim their unity by announcing that there is now one church in Linden and that they are pastors together in it and of it. As one pastor said, “This is a Kairos moment!” more....

(1) Doug and Sarah Norwood now home from Canada. Cell phone [+1-610-791-7777] and office phone [+1-610-841-3500] are both functional and we joyfully anticipate your calls.

(2) Fire and Rain: Keys to Transform Your Community, Doug Norwood’s new book is being printed at this moment in Singapore and will be ready for distribution by mid-August.

(3) Doug returns to Singapore August 18 through September 5 for the ‘launching’ of newly published Fire and Rain, and to teach at the Assemblies of God Bible College and the Faith Community Baptist Bible School. More »

In October I encouraged the Christian community in Bandon, in Ireland’s County Cork, to pray against the walls of division between local churches. Those divisions are metaphorized by the remains of the huge wall, built hundreds of years ago, to divide British plantation protestants from native Irish Catholics. Brian Synott and several other local pastors began to meet at the remains of the centuries-old wall, and they’ve prayed for unity in the Body of Christ. Now, even the physical wall is beginning to feel the quaking of our Lord’s mighty Spirit.  Here’s a note from Brian: More »

El Tigrito in north central Venezuela is not a huge city (hence its name: “Little Tiger”), but something huge is happening there. Several years ago, three or four pastors, hungry for a Christian transformation of their community, began meeting every Monday night for prayer. At first, in one of the pastor’s outdoor patio, then in the worship halls of several churches, and now, as numbers have swelled, there are no sanctuaries large enough to hold the Monday night gatherings of pastors and leaders.  I took this photo on Monday night, February 28, and it shows just a portion of the pastors who gathered for prayer in an outdoor field in El Tigrito. Behind me were hundreds of elders and deacons, heads bowed, hands raised aloft, praying for the pastors of “THE” Church – all recognizing that there is only one church in town, with these men and women pictured here co-pastors of it. more....