Urban Nations Update: Seeing Red
But just as children generally arrive one at a time, so also souls are generally welcomed one at a time into God’s Kingdom. Among the burdens of ministry will be found the question of whether this or that soul has been granted the seed of life from God, whether we are attending upon a “pregnancy” that will issue in new birth, or one that will “spontaneously abort.”
- Steve M. Schlissel,
- Steve M. Schlissel
Steve Schlissel has served as pastor of Messiah's Congregation in Brooklyn, New York, since 1979. Born and raised in New York City, Schlissel became a Christian by reading the Bible. He and Jeanne homeschooled their five children and also helped raise several foster children (mostly Vietnamese). In 2003, they adopted Anna (who was born in Hong Kong in 1988, but is now a U.S. citizen). They have eight foster grandchildren and fourteen "natural" grandchildren.